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The IR football team had to go

I support the team players but any team which waves the banner of the IR or sings their anthem should be disqualified. 

The Islamic Republic should be expelled from all international sporting event and must not be recognised as representatives of the Iranian people

I am sorry for the players - they played well - but the exit of the team is welcoming.

Death to the IR.  

being too hard on iran

team melli could easily have won the match. they did quite well and should not be too disappointed.

Faramarz:

I can't see the video. It's blocked! But I thought you might prefer a woman. Good luck in 2014.

Now was that so hard??

Doctor Mohandes is always right(!)

That was all you had to say right from the start and i would have left you alone! (of course i would also consider removing the exclamation mark, but oh well...)

WHo this wh...? Paris hilton look-alike?

Uncle G., Dr. Mohandes

OK, I don't know and I haven't heard!

Doctor Mohandes is always right!

Here is my favorite Turkish singer, singing "I Don't Know, I haven't Heard!"She is going to be my assistant for WC 2014.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNSaAG3ueBY

DM:

You seem to know Faramarz well. Is he really that bad? Lady toop jam kon?

Faramarz:

I loved that. I have been down with a cold for four days and I hadn't laughed for that long. I try not to get an ear infection!

GR

well, see that is the thing now. He does not want no assistants. It is gonna be a one-man-show. He wants to show the whole world who is da man:)) and single handedly lead iran to lift the next cup (with the help of a Jarre Sagheel) in Brazil 2012.

Dodooororororo Faramarz.

Faramarz

AT Least i was not the one, flirting with Lady toop jam kons to come up with your off the far left field analysis:))

BTW : I read on the AFC Site that Aussies will play Korea instead of Ozgalestan.

Ingad Las nazan be in toop jamkona:))

DM:

I totally agree. I want to be assistant coach, though. I understand Faramarz's frustration. He loves the game. He wants Iran to win, too. He sounds like my brother when he talks about Iran playing against Australia. My brother was a voluteer reporter for Keihan Varzeshi. He was very objective when he wrote, but then in private he would come up with many, "ifs." I couldn't say anything only because he was much bigger than me.

Iran Played a Patient Game!

Good Analysis Dr. Mohandes!

So, Iran played like a patient (Bimar!) and the Koreans played like a Doctor, and our Doctor Mohandes was checking out the nurse and came up with this analysis!

Semis on Tuesday: Japan - Korea 5:25 AM (West Coast Beach Time)

Ozbak - Aussie 8:25 AM

GR

I think We should Nominate FAramarz For the Job. He has all the needed credentials.:))

all he has to is to work a little bit on his pro-IRI "people" skills. that is it.

GO coach faramarz. make us champions of the world.

Teamwork: The Magic Wand!

I haven't seen this game, but I have seen Koreans play. They have revolutionized their game by concentrating on teamwork. The reason you see them everywhere is also thanks to their superior technique playing as a team. You want good teamwork? Get a coach who emphasizes only that and nothing else! He already has somhoof the best players in the country. Koreans used to play badly as a team, scattered uselessly all over the field. But then they changed and that's why we see them in the World Cup games more often.

masoud A

Why don't you enlighten us on that one? Keeping in mind that more than half of these players have been with the team and ghotbi for at least a couple of years and a fixed part of the team!!

Iran does have a very good team...

and I agree with Faramarz that the next coach can build on Ghotbi's accomplishments.

we should be realistic

South Korea played much better. However, I was impressed with the first 3 games that TM played. We should try harder next time when facing south Korea.

Faramarzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!

Deh!!

we were Technically superior to the Koreans????? Are you Dreaming? Their Finess and their manuvers around our players were second to none and not to mention they were unstoppable! And that was precisley why we struggled as a team.

Nosrati In my opinion did marvelous and should not even have been taken out .

The reason they were not allowed to create any opportunities was becasue they were covered from ear to ear by the korean guys. I mean heck at times they were tripled-teamed.

Our next coach should completely change the team arrangemnet and we need a fundamental change. Building on what ghotbi created will continue to get us the same results. Kiling the weak ones and getting slaughtered by the big ones.

Sorry to see TM lose

and that comes from one who grew-up with Shahin in Amjadieh.

You guys don't know the half of the realities of our football.   How many players were forced on Ghotbi today?  take a guess.   If you said 2 - you have underestimated.   If you said none - you are too naiive and clueless about the realities of akhoond infested Iran. 

Yet football and TM remains as a major platforms of nationalism in Iran - so Go TM - win or lose

darn...

I now have to by Mr Kim at work a beer! 

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

At least it was a very close game!

What do you think Yolanda jon?

"God Is Love - but Love Is Not God!"

Javgir shooodeh boodim......

Team ke 3 ta bazieh moghadamati ro bord hamamoon javgir shodim... va entezaratemoon alaki bala raft... hata to on 3 ta bazi maloom bood team moshkel dareh... ham too nojavanan , javanan va hala ham ke bozorgsalan natijeh nagereftim... in neshoon mideh ke moshkeleh zirbanaee darim va digeh " ba ghirat" bazi kardan kari ro az pish nemibareh va bayad modiriat va barnameh rizieh toolani modat dasht... ke az in system baideh ke kareh zir banaee anjam bedeh... pas behteh hala hala ha omidi be team football nadashteh bashim...

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//www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuEpRyWh7CI

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Luck of the Draw

Today Iran lost to a better team!

Ghotbi’s team lost to the best team in Asia, the team that made it to the last 16 in the World Cup. If we were lucky, we would have played Australia today and would have faced the Koreans in the finals and could have said that we are number two in Asia! But now, we are just eliminated in the quarterfinals.

Ghotbi was out-coached today. The 4-3-3 configuration with 3 defensive halfbacks (Neku, Ando and Nouri) never allowed any offensive creativity and the 3 forwards were lost in the 1st half! Although our players are technically superior to the S. Koreans, but as a team, we struggled for the first 60 minutes.

Heidari substitution for Nosrati fixed the problems on the right side. However, Khalatbari on the left was no match for a much stronger Cha Du Ri (22) and was never in the game. Our young center forward, Ansari Fard was never in the game either. We could have scored a lucky goal or could have made it to the penalty kicks, but S. Korea was the better team today and deserved the victory.

Iran has a very good team and I hope that the next coach can build on Ghotbi’s accomplishments.

Iran played a patient game !

Funny line about Iran playing a patient game:"Iran, a three-time champion with no title since 1976, played a patient game" 

hamash taghseere davar bood!!!

Akh.... Akh... akh....

I wonder what the new coach's guidlines would be!!