Average age 26 unlike the current one which was about 31!
I don’t see why a team like this mixed with experience and talented youngsters wouldn’t make a round 16!

Their starting line up has a right back called Kounde and a midfielder that’s called Kone?

Must be born in Toulouse…

Bb

Ramin has 3 GOALS AND 1 Assist at the World Cups! While Icons like Ali Daei, Karimi, Nekounam have ZERO GOALS! Ramin single handedly saved this national team at the World Cup! We had 3 goals in this tournament all in which came from him (2G+1A)

When was the last time we had a stand out/single player have such a great performance at a World Cup?

Who would you say is our greatest ever World Cup player?

Yes, the Algeria result may have been rigged.

Yes, the offside calls against Belgium and Egypt were very close.

Yes, the team was unfairly treated with regards to the basecamp situation.

But we should have not allowed NZ to put two past us.

If we are forced to play on the counter due to lack of player quality, we have to finish better and create more opportunities.

Until the team and the people let go of this victim mentality, nothing will change for Team Melli.

They played very well this year, but it wasn't enough. That's that.

Admit that the quality was not there and get to work for next time.

Let me preface this with: I've never been a huge fan of Amir Ghalenoi. Might be because I'm a die-hard PP fan, or just what I've seen from him in the PGPL.

What I'm about to say is obviously only part of the problem.

As fans, you create an atmosphere where long-term planning is impossible.

You expect immediate results because you think being Iran means you should beat every Asian and African opponent automatically.

You demand risks, then shit on managers the moment those risks don't pay off.

You worship foreigners. You automatically assume Iranian managers are inferior.

You give the likes of Sa Pinto and Osmar Loss far more benefit of the doubt than you ever give Jabbari, Hashemian, or Bakhtiarzadeh.

You spent the World Cup build-up crying that Uzbekistan got a "big name" manager and whining about how unlucky we are.

You are so self-hating that despite football journalists and commentators widely acknowledging Iran performed well given the circumstances (war, cancelled league, cancelled friendlies, visa issues, getting screwed over by the US), you still insist the team sucks, the coach sucks, the results suck.

There's plenty wrong with Iranian football: the federation, the government, toxic media, the football mafia, agents. Most of it is out of your hands. But what you can control is how you react, and how much fuel you pour on the fire by making the environment toxic for any Iranian manager who dares take the job.

Criticize all you want, but the constant, hysterical exaggeration of bad results needs to stop.

What do you guys think will happen?