Interview with Iran assistant coach

June 16th, 2006 | By: Afshin Afshar | 9 Comments »

Our friends in PDFC interviewed one of Team melli assistant coach Hooman Afazeli. This is an interesting interview. In it Afazeli suggests that Ali Daei may not be in the game because they want a faster line-up. He also points to lack of fitness of a number of players, which is a concern.

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Comments

By Navid | June 16th, 2006 at 8:33 am

Interesting!!! He looks more like the assistant chef of the Team Melli!

By Afshin Afshar | June 16th, 2006 at 8:41 am

LOL! He is a the team’s computer analyst. So he does not have to be in tip-top shape I guess.

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By Navid | June 16th, 2006 at 9:37 am

Afshin Jan,
Do you know by any chance if Manouk (Khodabakhshian) has any Program in persian media?
He is greatly missed in the past 2 world cups.

By payam | June 16th, 2006 at 11:41 am

oh! just look at him….
look at his face…. he want to eat ussss! hooooommmm!
he is like v mexican assassinator….. Homan:HEY YOU I WAWANT TO KILL YOU YOU….
so we must have a deadly strategy in game with portaGHAAAL HAAAA portaGHHHHHHHALLLLL
toro khoda dega portoghalha ham adam shodand!

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By Kaveh | June 16th, 2006 at 12:14 pm

Amigo-ha ke halemuno gereftand,
portoghal ham poostemuno migire age daste kamesh begirim.

By Navid | June 16th, 2006 at 4:41 pm

In case anyone wants to look up the word “flawless” in the dictionaries,don’t even bother!just watch argentinians playing serbs….Talk about teamwork,organization and motivation…way to go!!

By Rassi | June 16th, 2006 at 8:27 pm

Forget how fat he looks, why the heck would you want to put out the strategy for the game on a blog for the portugese team to read? I hope he is bluffing. I was in Nuremberg. They pulled back from the 60th minute onwards. How can the entire team get tired all at once? It was a coaching decision period.

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By kia | June 17th, 2006 at 2:53 am

I agree with Rassi. I think Afazeli is only covering his ass and his boss’s ass. What we saw was not a team so tired that could not run passed the midfield line. It was a team playing defensively hoping for a draw or a lucky winning goal through a counter attack. I hope this would not be our strategy against portugal. I have no problem with our coaching staff if what this guys says was true! And that’s exactly what they want you to believe! That it was not their fault.

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By bardiaafshin | June 17th, 2006 at 12:50 pm

i know Hooman Afazeli since 1998(when he begun to write for then the best seller and the only iranain sport newspaper that called Abrar Varzeshi),guess he don’t deserve these corny words and u shouldn’t say something like” look how fat he is”
u should look at his carrer if u’r interested to get to know him i’ll be there .(to dear mr.afshar:i’m ready to acquaint about Iranian sport details and information)(i used to write for Iranian journals for tn years)

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