In the World Cup in Brazil, Iran suffered Messi's "winner" and lost 0-/kloc-0-to Argentina. ?
The World Cup will officially kick off in 10 days, and all teams are taking the last time to warm up. ?
However, one team encountered the embarrassment of being stood up by their opponents in the warm-up match, that is, Iran from Asia. ?
Due to political reasons, Iran's scheduled warm-up match was temporarily cancelled, which made the team coach and Portuguese Queiroz very angry. ?
In recent years, the Iranian team has encountered more difficulties than these. There is no official equipment sponsorship, and the budget allocation is insufficient ... Previously, the Iranian team only won the World Cup. Can they make a new history by going to Russia this time? ?
Coach Queiroz broke his heart for Iranian football. ?
The scheduled warm-up match was "stood up"?
In the 20 18 World Cup year, all participating teams are making use of the warm-up match for final training and adjustment. ?
Iran is no exception, but compared with other Asian teams, this powerful team in West Asia has encountered more obstacles.
According to Portugal's "Ball" and other media reports, on June 2, Iran should have played a warm-up match with Greece in Istanbul, but just the day before the game, the game was temporarily cancelled by Greece. ?
The reason behind this is the tense diplomatic relations between Greece and Turkey. As a result, the Iranian team unfortunately "lay down their guns".
In the preliminaries, the Iranian team did not give the national football team a chance.
Greece did not qualify for the World Cup, but Iran must seize every opportunity to warm up before the game begins. Therefore, after the opponent "stood up", Iran immediately contacted Kosovo, hoping to reschedule a game. ?
However, after hesitation, the Kosovo team chose to refuse, and in this way, Iran lost a valuable training opportunity in vain.
Of course, the Iranian team has arranged many warm-up matches this year. 20 18 Since the beginning of this year, the team has played five warm-up matches with Sierra Leone, Tunisia, Algeria, Uzbekistan and Turkey, with a record of 3 wins and 2 losses. ?
Next, Iran will play Lithuania in a warm-up match on June 8, which will be their last actual battle before the World Cup.
At first glance, it doesn't matter if you miss a game against Greece, but compared with other Asian teams, Iran's warm-up opponents are still inferior.
Among Japan, South Korea, Australia and Saudi Arabia, there are many European and American teams such as Italy, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Poland and Colombia. Among the Iranian team's warm-up opponents, only Tunisia entered the World Cup finals. ?
Iranian players defend Messi in Brazil World Cup. ?
There is political friction and football is affected?
According to Iranian coach Queiroz, Iranian football is influenced by political factors, so the team will want to warm up with strong European teams.
"The outside world has been criticizing Iran. We all know that many national teams are unwilling to play against the Iranian national team for political reasons. " In an interview, Queiroz could not hide his anger. ?
In fact, it is not the first time that the Iranian national team has encountered such a situation.
Before the last World Cup in Brazil, Iran contacted Ghana for a warm-up match, but Ghana was worried about the so-called potential terrorist threat and temporarily canceled the match.
Before the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Romania, Ukraine and Nigeria, which had promised to warm up with Iran, not only refused to go to Tehran to watch the game, but even broke their promise collectively. In the end, Iran can only play a friendly match with the Macedonian youth team.
Political factors not only affect Iran's game, but also affect Iran's "money path". Due to the tension with western countries, the Iranian national team has no official long-term equipment sponsor so far.
In this World Cup, Iran will play in Adidas jerseys, but these clothes are not officially sponsored by Adi, but paid by the Iranian Football Association.
As early as 20 12, the Iranian Football Association was unable to get assistance from the AFC because of economic sanctions. Today, although the strength of the team is good, it is still difficult to be called "rich" in terms of financial security.
As early as when the preliminaries were successfully qualified, coach Queiroz once "bombarded" the Iranian Football Association on social media for not providing enough budget. "Players deserve the respect of the world, because the team participated in the preliminaries in the absence of funds and training facilities, but they still performed well and the players paid too much." ?
"Iranian Messi" Azmun. ?
Can you win the World Cup again? ?
Although the conditions are not good, it is an indisputable fact that Iranian football is strong in Asia.
Compared with the last World Cup cycle, the current Iranian team is worth looking forward to-Brazil World Cup preliminaries, where they stayed until the last moment, and this time in the preliminaries of 12, they advanced ahead of time with an unbeaten record of 6 wins and 4 draws, and at the same time created a new record of continuous clean sheets in the preliminaries.
In the current Iranian team, Jahan Bashi, who won the Dutch Golden Boot Award with a goal of 2 1 this season, is also the first Asian player to win the Golden Boot Award in the European mainstream league. ?
Jahan Bashi won the Dutch Golden Boot Award with a goal of 2 1.
In addition, Rezai, who scored 16 goals in the Belgian first division, tied for the top scorer. Ansarifard, who plays for Olympiacos, ranks second in the scorer list of this year's Greek Super League. ?
Of course, Iran also has Azmun, known as "Messi of Iran", who will make his World Cup debut in Russia.
As early as the 20 15 Asian Cup, he was born at the age of 20. Later, on behalf of Rostov, he broke the goals of Atletico Madrid and Bayern in the Champions League. He is 23 years old, which is the age when young talents come to the fore.
However, the result of Iran's World Cup group draw was not good. The three opponents in the same group are Spain, Portugal and Morocco. With its strong strength, Iran can only hope for a miracle if it wants to qualify.
But at least, they can have a more realistic goal: winning. Iran had participated in the World Cup four times before, and only 1998 defeated the United States.
Source: Phoenix Network Information