News ID: 217

Date: 25 August 2024 - 23:40

Head of Youth Department:

We hope to participate in the U20 Asian Nations Cup with maximum strength

Somayeh Dehghanian, said about the camp of our country's under-20 national football team in China to hold two friendly matches with the youth of this country: for a strong presence in the preliminary stage of the Asian Nations Cup and also Obtaining permission to participate in the World Cup, we are holding preparatory camps and participating in several preparatory tournaments. Among the plans that the U20 national team has for preparation, we can mention the successful participation in Kafa, where they won the championship title there, and before that they were in the Turkish camp and played a few friendly games to gain experience.

Referring to the lack of participation of some of the youth national team players in the Chinese camp, he emphasized: A month before sending to China, we corresponded with the club so that the invited players could attend the camp. Unfortunately, at least 12 of our main players could not accompany us due to their pre-season training and the first week of the Premier League. Our positive and happy side is that in the previous period, under the leadership of Mr. Abdi, the national junior team had progressed so much that their brilliance in the Junior World Cup competitions attracted them from the Premier League clubs. Now we see them both as players of the national youth team and as players of the Premier League club teams.

Dehghanian continued: The head coach of the youth team is worried about the fact that the players he has invited and invested in to help the team and be successful in the Asian competitions will not be able to have them in the international preparatory games. The Asian Nations Cup qualifiers, which are not in Fifadi, again face us with this challenge. We hope that the football federation and the league organization will take measures to have these players with the cooperation of the clubs and the league organization and that the national team will participate in these competitions with maximum strength.

Expressing his satisfaction with the friendly games against China, he stated: These games were held at the level of official and prestigious Asian competitions and were completely organized and organized. Two competitions were held in the city of "Shen Shi". More than 10,000 spectators came in the first competition, which was held in Shenxi, China. In addition, the ceremonies that are considered for an Asian match were created in this match with the presence of all the officials of the Chinese Football Federation.

The head of the youth department of the football federation reminded: the long flight to China, the time and weather difference with the country where the game is held seemed to have an effect on the performance of the youth team in the first half of the first game. But in the continuation of this game and the next game, the ball and field were completely at the disposal of the national youth team of Iran, whose performance was praiseworthy despite the absence of a large number of main players in the last few months.

Dehghanian noted: Many of the players who were with us were wearing the national team jersey for the first time. The Chinese national team also benefits from a Croatian head coach and a strong technical staff like the national team of our country, and it had improved a lot and had become much more tactically coherent. This game was a very good promise to get to know the technical staff of the Iranian national team as much as possible and create experience among the players. If we trust the youth, even the players who may not be very prominent can definitely have a successful presence in the national team. We hope that the football federation and the league organization will join hands with more support so that this team can achieve success.

In the end, while referring to the support of the Football Federation, he noted: We should definitely appreciate the efforts of the managers of the federation, which has set good goals for the success of the grassroots teams. We should also be grateful for the efforts of all the football teams of the provinces who have cooperated in various fields.