Why was Saeed Marouf chosen by the federation to lead the national volleyball team? – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr reporter, next year is very important for Iranian volleyball, the League of Volleyball Nations is the last chance for Iran’s top players to participate in the Paris Olympics, and the national volleyball team must win 10 victories in order to be among the top three teams and go to the Olympics.
Iran’s national volleyball team got very poor results in the Olympic selection led by Behrouz Atai and fell in the world ranking and placed in the 15th place in the table. After the fall of the national volleyball team and the poor results of this team, the head of the federation immediately apologized to the people of Iran and announced that he will choose the best option to lead the national team. Two meetings of the technical committee were held and in the end, people such as “Gianlorenzo Bellangini”, “Vital Heinen”, “Roberto Piazza”, “Vladimir Alkeno”, Peyman Akbari and Saeed Maarouf were introduced as the final options to lead the national team. So that the federation can carry out the necessary negotiations with these people.
Perhaps few people thought that Saeed Maarouf, who played as a professional player until last season, would be among the options for leading the national team, that’s why they made many comments. Some residents and volleyball experts believe that the presence of Saeed Maarouf in the current situation is not in his favor and if Maarouf takes over the leadership of the national team, this national capital will burn and such an incident should not happen to him. Even some volleyball people believe that the famous name is mentioned among the options because the federation intends to abuse this national capital!
Why did the federation choose Saeed Marouf to lead the national team?
Marouf is an international figure and has a special popularity among the national team players, but his lack of coaching experience can be considered his Achilles’ heel. However, although the famous name is among the options, it is heard from the ears and side by side, the federation is more determined to choose Belangini or Piazza to lead the national team, but the most important obstacle in front of these people is to lead the teams they are in charge of. Considering that these coaches have contracts with other teams, they can be added to Iran’s national volleyball team only two weeks before the League of Nations. This issue has made the situation difficult because the volleyball federation once had the experience of having a foreign coach in a few months before the Olympics and did not get the desired result.
Before the Tokyo Olympics, Alkeno took charge of Iran’s national volleyball team, but he could not meet the expectations. After Alkono left Iran, all the residents and volleyball experts believed that he did not have enough time to get to know the Iranian players and that is why he could not achieve results. Definitely, this experience will not be repeated again by the Volleyball Federation. Therefore, if these two coaches (Belangini and Piazza) can come to Iran only two weeks before the League of Nations, they will be removed from the list of options.
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TheWill Alceno become the technical advisor of the national team?
In 2021, Alkono took over the leadership of the national volleyball team, he was the head coach of the Iranian national team in a short period of time, and because of this, he could not get an acceptable result. Under the guidance of Alkeno, the national team reached the 11th place in the League of Nations and the 9th place in the Tokyo Olympic Games. This Russian head coach has stated many times that he does not want to lead Iran’s national volleyball team as a head coach, and even Arbitration in conversation with Mehr He pointed out this point and said: “Alkeno has its own conditions and he may not necessarily work with us as a head coach and maybe work with the national team as a consultant.” Therefore, it seems that the choice of Alceno as a consultant will be more likely.
It seems that according to the conditions, the federation has taken into account all the issues in the selection of the head coach of the national team and the choice of Saeed Marouf will be more tolerant than the size of the options if he is given the green light. However, taking into account that Marouf has no coaching experience and Iran’s volleyball conditions are critical for participation in the Olympics, this choice will be risky.