More than two decades of effort in the career of sports journalism and covering major tournaments such as FIFA WORLD CUP, opened a window for me to view football and other sports from a different perspective.
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"Football cannot not to be," It can't not to be because it is a global "Hyper Phenomenon" whose shoes fit everyone; from politicians and philosophers to distinguished scientists or ordinary people. It can't not to be since it has become "a part of our world's essentials and has a role and place in the turning of this universe wheel." A Hyper Phenomenon that everyone talks about and analyzes, it surely has a lot to say and is definitely very important. Important, like the classic number ten player on the pitch, and important like the number 10 jersey!
As fans, critics, journalists, or ordinary citizens, what lofty or unimaginable expectations do we have of a football match that a bunch of incompetent and incapable managers fail to deliver?
Writing about the ugliness of Iranian football is a painful task, but it must be done, hoping that someone might take notice and act on it someday—though, given the current management, which has deliberately fostered this ugliness, transformation seems unlikely. A deliberate "lack of taste" permeates Iranian football.
The ownership change of Tehran’s two biggest teams was merely a “name change”—a transfer from one pocket to another. (I don’t consider any team in Iran’s league a football club, as what happens in Iranian football is far from the professional or even semi-professional standards of global club management.)
The poor quality of the Naghsh-e Jahan Stadium’s pitch has been a thorn in our side for days, becoming fodder for mockery by Arabic-speaking bloggers: “A return to the Stone Age” and “Severe injury warnings for players” are just some of the jabs highlighting the grossly negligent management and maintenance of a football pitch.
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I was 7 years old when I watched my first World Cup in an old black and white TV; 28 years later, when I was reporting on my first World Cup in South Africa, the first ever African host, my dreams had come true.
This has been a path full of challenges, hardships, bitterness, and sweetness, which continues for a boy who found a different passion of football and writing and embarked on this path. A boy who never grew up!
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