According to the reporter of Mehr, the year 1401 was passed for Iranian football while the national team had one of its worst days because of the management events surrounding the football federation and Dragan Skocic’s lack of control over the dressing room.
Going through hell with Skocic
Consecutive victories of the Iranian national football team with Dragan Skocic led to the early promotion of this team to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Skocic’s students defeated their opponents in the final selection stage of the 2022 World Cup in the Asian region, such as Lebanon, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Iraq, and advanced to the World Cup together with South Korea. Skocic was able to create a powerful rise for the Iranian national team while in the qualifying round there was no hope for the Iranian national team to participate in the 2022 World Cup, but the Croatian man was able to put on the mantle of happiness in the darkest days of the bench of the Iranian national team after Mark Wilmots and His team is slow.
A weak federation made everyone weak
The dismissal of Shahabuddin Azizi Khadim and the leadership of Mirshad Majdi with a weak board of directors led to the creation of colorful borders in the corridors of the Football Federation. The shadow of these events was combined with the many margins of the adult national team’s dressing room, so that Skocic was in a position of weakness with the stars of the Iranian national team. A few factions in the locker room of the Iranian national team made the war between players such as Mehdi Tarimi, Ehsan Haj Safi and Karim Ansarifard and Skocic become public. On the other hand, some stars such as Biranvand, Sardar Azmoun, and Shoja Khalilzadeh were in favor of keeping Esco, so that we can see the verbal conflicts and unprofessional behavior of the players on their personal pages on virtual networks.
Who came with the crown?
However, the selection of Mehdi Taj after many struggles caused the bench of the Iranian national team to change and Carlos Queiroz took over the team ready for the World Cup. He, who had taken us to the most important football tournament with his technical thinking during the 2014 and 2018 World Cups, now he went to Qatar with the team that Skocic paved the way for his ascent.
Disappointment in the 2022 World Cup
The record of the heaviest defeat in the history of Iran’s games in the World Cup was achieved with Kei Rosh’s thoughts against England. The Three Lions were able to defeat Iran in the first match of the group stage with a result of 6 to 2, so that one of the strangest results of the 2022 World Cup was achieved. Next, the Iranian national team was able to defeat Wales with a score of 2-0 so that everyone hoped to advance from the group stage, but in the game against America, despite only wanting one point, they lost the result to the Iranian national team in one of the easiest ways to advance. Once again, he could not reach the elimination stage and the failure against Esme Ki-Rosh was recorded for the third consecutive time.
Interior… New Castle
Financial restrictions and the fear of another foreigner’s complaint made Mehdi Taj stop the presence of a foreign coach and give the opportunity to the locals. Therefore, Amir Ghale Nooyi was appointed as the head coach in the last days of 1401, so that the Iranian national team will again be in the hands of the most successful domestic club football coach of Iran after 16 years. Now, the Iranian national team is following up its training for the Nowruz 1402 games with Russia and Kenya, so that the footballers are waiting for Qale Novi’s thinking for these competitions.
Iran’s national football team will play against Russia on the 3rd of April and against Kenya on the 8th of April at Azadi Stadium in Tehran.