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June 14th, 2009 | By: Afshin Afshar | 6 Comments »

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Considering the events of the last few days in Iran, it is hard for me to think about football. It seems anticlimactic and insensitive. Not surprisingly I have noticed considerable drop on number of hits on my football blogs from Iran.

Although I live thousands of miles away in North America, I still have relatives and friends in Iran. That and the fact that I still have deep emotional roots in my country of birth, the event of the last few days personally affect me. So here is my dilemma, do I continue to blog about football, or shall I stop? I probably will, but not today!

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By mansoor | June 14th, 2009 at 11:30 am

It is understandable Afshin Jan

By kia | June 14th, 2009 at 10:55 pm

Since you brought this subject up, do you think the situation would effect Iran’s game next week?!

And let me even ask a more difficult question: Would you guys rather see a full blown riot that might lead to consideraable changes in country’s political system and future but might lead to cacellation of the game next week, or a quick end to the situation to assure no interference with our qualification bid. In other words, at this stage, if you had to choose, is the political change more important or particitpation in WC 2010?!!!

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By mansoor | June 15th, 2009 at 6:44 am

Games like this and its outcome will not cut the root of this regime.

When they were the most vulnurable (I was in Iran at the time), they sold 100,000 tickets so fans could watch Iran’s game against Botof from Bulgaria.

Well, w/o letting people know, they moved the game from Azadi stadium to another one which could only hold about 30,000+ fans.

All other 70,000 peopole, to include me and friends/family, were upset.

A riot took place; and of course, all anti-regime political parties tried to take advantage and use such pivotal moment to destroy that regime. Unfortunately, it did not happen.

I hope TM will win. The riot in Iran will end and unfortunately we will see 4 more years of the same! On the same token, we do need to win because that is what we are all about. We are a nation that leaves everything to the “last minute” and “under pressure” we do better. Is it just me or that’s a non-bias, true, and general statement?

I see your point Kia but I think we should hope for players like “Daie” who, not as a coach but as a player (the old times), used to show some “Gheyrat” and lead the team to victory. Who do we have now to do that for us? Not sure…

Go Iran!!!!

By kia | June 15th, 2009 at 1:05 pm

I know that Mansoor! That was just a hypothetical question for the sake of argument!!!!! Since as Afshin mentioned it is hard to ignore the situation and only discuss football, I was trying to related the two together…. ….

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By mansoor | June 15th, 2009 at 8:39 pm

Not bad though

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I wish it would happen; but unfortunately, it is far from reach

So Doooo Doooo Rooo Doooo… Iran

By kia | June 16th, 2009 at 2:21 am

Guys, things have got worse in Iran. Confirmed 7 dead!!! I can’t really see how the boys won’t be effected by all this news and the situation. Good thing the game is not in Tehran otherwise it would have definately been cancelled….

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