LivescoreGhalenoei's views on Iran vs. South Korea and Esteghlal
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footballmedia.net - Afshin Dastafshan: The following interview with
the head coach of Iran national team was conducted by Iranews this week,
below is a translation of the interview:
Amir Ghalenoei has been
working more closely with Esteghlal FC recently and has been attending
Esteghlal practice sessions to directly monitoring Esteghlal players
reports the club’s official web site. Ghalenoei’s involvement in Esteghlal
appears to be more substantial now than any time since his appointment as
Team Melli head coach.
Iranews –
Mr Ghalenoei, let us talk about Esteghlal’s situation.
Ghalenoei –
I would rather not talk about Esteghlal as that would not be in
Esteghlal’s interest, I would like the club to get on with its work
without distractions.
Iranews – You
have been attending Esteghlal practice sessions recently, is this not an
indication of your increased involvement with the club?
Ghalenoei –
I never
left Esteghlal to want to return, no matter where I am, any part of the
world, I will always be an Esteghlal man and will be side by side with the
club. I will always do what I can to help Esteghlal.
Iranews – What
about Team Melli, what’s the latest on the team’s condition?
Ghalenoei –
I am
not sure what you mean by ‘the latest’, we are just starting!
Iranews –
What’s the current status of Team Melli; what are your team plans for the
forthcoming match against South Korea (U-23)?
Ghalenoei –
We will
be playing an attacking game, you can expect Team Melli to play a
different system from previous matches. I might opt for 4-3-3- or 4-4-2
and change to 4-2-4 when attacking.
Iranews – So we
will see a convincing win for Iran?
Ghalenoei –
It is
our natural right to look for a convincing valuable win over South Korea
(U-23)
Iranews – Will
you be using any new players not used before from the Persian Gulf League
(PGL)?
Ghalenoei –
No not
in this match, all European based and three UAE based players have been
called up for this match, but I have a few players in mind to add to the
team at a later point, we are monitoring them in the mean time. They will
first be tested in the B Team and then moved to the first team. (GN gave
no names)
Iranews – Do
you follow the league? What’s your view of PGL?
Ghalenoei –
In my
opinion the quality of the league is below expectation, I would say we are
getting a 10% return for the investment in our football. Sadly UAE league
harms PGL since our top players move to UAE for better pay, this has left
PGL without any superstars. All of Iran’s top strikers are playing in UAE
league; our players’ forms suffer as a consequence since the UAE league is
a weaker league than PGL. With our top strikers in UAE it’s meant Ali Daei
who is nearly 38 has become PGL’s top scorer.
Iranews – I
won’t name any names but would you like to add anything else to this
topic?
Ghalenoei –
Our
football is very innocent, why should Esteghlal be using Azadi’s number
two practice pitch for their training? Why doesn’t anyone look into
Esteghlal’s difficulties? How can we expect Esteghlal to do well in the
Asian Champions League? Now there is rumour that Gounesh will be appointed
as Esteghlal head coach. Rather than spending a lot of money hiring a
foreign coach the authorities should spend the money on improving
facilities for the club, you will then see the current young Esteghlal
coaches doing as well as Gounesh could.
Iranews – Last
question; how do you see Esteghlal’s long term progress?
Ghalenoei –
Hopefully Esteghlal will overcome their difficulties and meet the fan’s
expectations.
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Author’s note – South
Korea have announced their under 23 team that will be playing Iran on
November 15th, Mr Ghalenoei has called up his European based
and first team players for this match as follows:
Iran players
called up (source IRIB):
Vahid Taleblou, Hassan
Roudbarian, Farshid Karimi, Rahman Ahmadi, Mahmoud Fekri, Amir-Hossein
Sadeghi, Hadi Aqhili, Mohammad Nosrati, Hadi Shakouri, Mehdi Mahdavikia,
Javad Kazemian, Alireza Vahedi-Nikbakht, Ali Badavi, Javad Nekunam,
Hossein Kazemi, Andrianik Teymourian, Ebrahim Sadeghi, Ali Karimi, Pejman
Nouri, Hossein Badamaki, Gholam-Reza Enayati, Rassoul Khatibi, Siavash
Akbarpour, Vahid Hashemian, Rahman Rezaei
South Korea
U-23 players called up (source AFC):
Kim
Yong-dae, Kim Young-gwang, Jo Yong-hyung, Jung In-hwan, Park Ju-sung, Yang
Sang-min, Kim Chi-woo, Jang Hak-young, Kim Chi-gon, Jo Won-hee, Jo
Sung-hwan, Oh Bum-seok, Kim Jin-kyu, Kim Dong-jin, Kwon Jip, Kim Du-hyun,
Kim Nam-il, Kim Jung-woo, Lee Ho, Choi Sung-kuk, Lee Chun-soo, Lee
Jong-min, Lee Seung-hyun, Jung Jo-guk, Yeom Ki-hoon, Kim Dong-hyun
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