Iran is full of talent;/ Qalenoui: Any other coach, he would not have accepted!

In response to Biranvand's nomination, Amir Ghalenoui talked about Iran's football talents and the team's preparation problems.

According to Sport Seh, the inclusion of Alireza Biranvand's name in the list of candidates for the best player of the year in Asia was one of the topics that Amir Qalanoui talked about. The goalkeeper of Tractor and the Iran team is in the announced list, next to Firas Al-Barikan and Salem Al-Dossari, and will compete for the 2026 award.

Biranvand was also among the nominees for this award in 2019. This year's event is scheduled to be held on the 28th of November in Bangkok. In response to a question about this nomination, Ghalenoui spoke about Iran's football capacities and then discussed the limitations of the team's preparation and the conditions of the recent camps.

Ghalenoui said: "I believe that Iran is full of talent and ability, and we had players in the past who became the Man of the Year in Asia." However, the situation has become such that due to the burden of problems that dominate the country, technical abilities have been seen to be low. For example, if I want to talk about the World Cup, I have to write a book about our problems and concerns."

He explained about the conditions of the recent camp: "I have to give an explanation about the recent Fifadi. Maybe any other coach wouldn't have accepted. The league was closed without the coordination of the senior national team, and for the first time, we provided both Omid players and seniors to the Omid national team. A number of players were in this situation, and a number of them were legionnaires, and clubs and leagues were also closed. "For the first time, we trained with 15, 16 players and actually paid."

The head coach of the Iranian team continued: "The games in Nagoya were important for us, and the officials' view was that football could get results there. Although Mr. Abdi is a very good coach, these things happen in football. For example, I was watching the game between Croatia and England, and in Croatia, England scored seven goals. Or the match between Brazil and Germany in the World Cup where they scored seven goals."

Referring to the match against Russia, Ghalenoui said: "In the last Fifa, we got together the night before the game. When we analyzed the film, everything was close in the game against Russia and we lost on an individual mistake, which was also because we were not focused, because the team was divided into three parts. However, it is our duty to consider all issues. For example, in this Fifadi and CAFFA games, the head coach of the national team was paid, because the national view was more important for us."