Roberto Piazza, Iran and an obvious contradiction

Roberto Piazza with Iran's national volleyball team won Asia's vice-championship and gold in Nagoya Asian Games. Two medals that have made an interesting story with his previous criticisms of the level and credibility of these competitions.

According to "Varzesh Seh", Roberto Piazza, the head coach of Iran's national volleyball team, managed to win two valuable medals for Iran's volleyball in the last season of national competitions. Runner-up in the Asian Championship and the gold medal of the Nagoya Asian Games.

Although these two medals are important achievements for Iranian volleyball, the interesting point of the story is that this Italian coach had previously criticized these competitions and questioned their level and credibility.

In the first days of his stay in Iran, Piazza, in response to the question of the reporter of Sport Seh about the golden generation of Iranian volleyball, made statements that are now being noticed again with the results he obtained in these two tournaments.

The head coach of Iran's national volleyball team said at that time: "Which golden generation?" The Asian Games and the Asian Championship are not included in the calendar of the World Volleyball Federation. What have this golden generation done besides the Asian Championship? Which FIVB tournaments have they been on? Olympics? World League? We can only say that they were a good generation."