IFF officials and coaches hold their annual barking session

The Iranian Football Federation officials including the president Ali Kaffashian and Vice President Mehdi Taj, Team Melli Coach Afshin Ghotbi, and a number of coaches attended the annual meeting between the coaches and officials. Interestingly only half a dozen of the 18 top league coaches showed up for the meeting.

As usual there was lots of talking, but nothing substantial was decided on or said. Perhaps that is why the other 12 top league coaches decided to skip the meeting!

Anyway, Team Melli coach Afshin Ghotbi tried to play his usual conciliatory role by inviting all the coaches to get along and not to take their differences to the media, but immediately after the meeting talking to reporters Bushehr Coach Mahmoud Yavari said “For certain reasons I am Ghotbi’s biggest critic!”, he went on, “But I will do all I can to help Team Melli”.

That was not all, Mohammad Mayelikohan told reporters that he was beefed at IFF Cheief Ali Kaffashian for referring to him as a “Good boy” because he is older than Kaffashian. So he proudly announced that he called the Chief a “Good kid” in return!

There are a whole bunch of other examples of childish behavior after the meeting, but they are not worth the space they occupy here.

And we wonder why our football sucks increasingly more year after year! ….Sigh!