eroonman

I always thought he was a mistake

Here's why I agree that Ali Daei is Iranian Idiot of the Day. And why I like to nominate him for the Iranian Idiot of the Year.

1) When Iran was coachless a year ago, Ali Daei shed some of his wisdom by telling the media that Team Melli needs a foreign coach. As soon as the incompetent Iranian football federation gaffed on the hiring of different foreign candidates and offered him the job, he jumped on it. What a jack***! Excuse my french.

2) For those who compare his "prolific" goal scoring to the likes of Pele and make that a prequisite for being a national coach, let me remind you that Pele and other great soccer players did not play against Maldives, Singapore and Bhutan. Just remember how he played in the WC finals.

3) He's a byproduct of the corrupt Iranian football federation and used his position as a throne and wielded his power to accept and deny players to play in the game. He famously said that Ali Karimi is not ready to play for the Team Melli (amadegi nadareh). I guess Karimi didn't pay homeage (=**ayehmali) to Daei as he thought he deserved. Now, we know who didn't have "amadegi."

4) He does not have the temperament, tact, and knowledge to be an international coach. Shouldn't you at least start as an assistant coach of a successful national team to be considered?

5) Whatever smhb (title: Iran's Football) said above.

Proud to be an Iranian and soccer aside love you all.

Best Game by Iran I have ever seen

Don't get me wrong this was by far the best most agressive game I have ever seen Iran play. All the more reason to throw everything you've got at getting that all important 2 goal lead by the first half.

THEN you sit back and go "Bah Bah ajab Golhayi zadim ha?"

To lose this game was unforgivable. The Saudis too showed amazing reserve, and did not give up.

I loved it!

Iran's Football

eroonman have you noticed

eroonman have you noticed daei is ballonning up? He's not exactly putting on weight but he's not what he used to be. Doesn't he work out? Keep in shape? Is it what he's wearing off the feild that give me this impression? I don't know. Wayne Gretzky doesn't look this way, even as a coach. He seems to jus age. But this guy has...pof. I feel so sorry for him. This picture you have here is really pathetic, with a folder in his hand. Akhey bichareh.

I Am in no shocks

Eroneeman

You or anyone else who likes to distort the real picture of how they played on saturday, are just looking for excuses to complain. Iran TOTALLY dominated the game in both halves if you closely watched the game. Yes, there were some stupid moves that were made, But this would have not been prevented had Karimi, or hashemian, or even dayi himself jumped in and played! Did not you see hashemian in the second half? It would have been nice if Rezaei could execute better at the goal line, or not getting tangled up with nekonam, But that it no way discredits the overall performance of our players or the decisions ali dayi as a coach made.

You've had your chance: Here's the Analysis

It seems we are either too blinded by nationalistic loyalty, or simply in too much shock at losing a seemingly simple game at home.

Here's why Ali Daei is today's idiot; "Those who can't play, Coach". Ali Daei was clearly a great player, and precisely because of that should NEVER have been allowed to coach. Regardless of which Ayatollah he is related to.

The decision not to play veterans in the 1st half to throw everything you've got at a must-win game, to prevent Ali Karimi, one of the few finishers Iran has, is nothing short of criminal.

But the absolute best reason why Ali Daei is the Iranian Idiot of the day is that stupid, ridiculous joke of a collar! Ladies and Gentlemen Elvis has (Thankfully) Left the Building!

On a brighter note, with the firing of Daei, Ahmadinejad finally showed that the President of Iran actually has some decision-making power.

We are not as good as we think

With due respect to Iranian players; Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Japan have been much more consistent teams than us. Especially Saudi's are stronger physically. With a weak team it is better to loose now than go to the World Cup and be humiliated in front of the entire world. We need to learn from this and improve management of our team.

Eroonman, in soccer we are not the master race

I am sure that you’ve heard by now that Daie has been fired as the Iranian coach and probably rightly so.

Leaving all the politics out of it, the tone of your post suggests that we should have beaten Saudis 5-0 and they are an inferior soccer race. Saudi Arabia as a soccer nation has had more success than Iran, they are not Afghanistan.

I watched the game on Fox Soccer Channel and the there was an Iranian analyst/co commentator by the name of Behrooz commentating the game. He explained the many reasons why Iran lost.

My own view is that Iranians are not terribly good at team sports (or team anything for that matter). There is a fundamental issue with us when it comes to us working together as a unit. That is why we do well, in wrestling, weight lifting, Tae Kwon do, shooting, etc.. and our gifted soccer players only excel outside of Iranian environment.

Daei was a gifted player!

He should have stuck with what he did best. I would imagine finding a competent coach to be quite an ordeal. 

Football Iranian style

I am not an sports analyst, nor a footballer. This latest debacle, however, can only be blamed on our players who exhibited lack of professionalism, nationalism, self pride, motivation, and......etc. Are you listening Mehdi Mahdavikia? Do you now wonder why you continue to sit on the bench when your club Frankfurt plays??!! They were simply overmatched as Saudi players playerd a much more balanced and methodical game. I feel sorry for Daie who has always had good intentions and for his successor who has to deal with these idiots calling themselves Iranian professional footballers!

.. i am still laughing :)

but please stop laughing before you get an intestinal tear.
So many trainers loose thier job, how comes some poeple are so happy about Ali Daeiś disaster? HOW COMES? because the root lays in the hate against Iran and Iranians? Anyway "IRANIAN" is the most appropriate site to get rid of unsatisfied feelings.

* how far down have we sunk as a nation ?

so far and so deep as big the number of deserteurs is. These individuals and only these have sunk down deep in the kapitalistical slums. they can not or do not want to realize the facts. Ali Daei is retired in a most honorabkle way. It is the tradition in the football world:If a team looses so it is allways the trainerś fault. It is only in a few cases true, but it is the tradion that the trainer has to leave. Ali Daei is stil beloved by those honorable 7ty Million Iranians who live in Iran. Iranians out of country have no right to speak from "thier" nation. Thier nation sunk down on the day they deserted and the Islamic Iran lives in permanent glory. However the natural need to have a country and to belong to a nation forces some poeple to speak from thier nation stil after years of thier legal and free departure. it is the result of the fact that they are handled as strangers and foreighners in thier new life in the diaspora and the wish of beeing THERE.
Greeting

Many Guilty Actors

Daei made mistakes concerning the tactical formation, and there are probably better coaches for this team (Qotbi), but there are also many realities which weren´t caused by him:

The whole football system lacks professionalism. better coaches did not want the job. friendly games were cancelled by foreign governments because of politics, the abroad players are too weak to lead a team (it is not Daei´s job to show the players the basics like Mahdavikia who failed to score alone in front the goal or Nekounam who failed to score not once but two easy headers into the goal or Rahmati who didn´t put a player to the second post).

Since 1978 we only won one Asian finals (12 tournaments) and qualified twice for the WC (7 WCs); our football meets many big problems.

Besides, Daei was the one reformed the national team after the embarrising matches in the AC´07; he brought Rahmati, Khalatbari, Rezaei, Zare, Khalili, also Shojaei out of the bench into the first 11.

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بعنوان یک بازیکن علی دائی کارش خیلی خوب بود ولی بعنوان مربی؟

کار هر بز نیست خرمن کوفتن

Whatever

eeroonman

Nobody can actually and in reality coach a "losing" team. A team loses based on a lack of great and solid cooperation on the pitch. They could only do what coah tells them to do up to a point, and believe or not there are times where they have to compromise and create new tactics. So it is not all about coaching.
By that last statement you clearly showed you understand Nothing about football. You Just want to see wins and that is all you care about.

football

• Mina Dadvar (Klein),  Maryland:   This is not about football.  This is about how far down have we sunk as a nation ?  

LOL

... i am still laughing :)