While most of the world teams will be engaged in friendly or official competitions in the designated FIFA Day, Team Melli as usual is still fast asleep ready for the Messiah to sign the contract , and hence will miss another FIFA day.

The Asian teams competing in the AFC Asian Cup 2015, are well on their in preparation programs. Teams in Iran group has played several friendlies already and set training camps in the elite Asian completion starting mid in January. This week Teams such as Qatar , UAE , Oman , Saudi Arabia and even Palestine will be playing friendly internationals. Team Melli is not even formed yet!

Thanks to Ali Kaffashian and Carlos Queiroz , Team Melli is an orphan and for all practical purposes has not even been named , let alone commencing its long due preparation for the Asian Cup. 

The expectation is that those responsible for Team Melli , and after getting yet another disappointing result in AFC Asian Cup , due to the proverbial late and inadequate preparation, will be offering the same old excuses, and the same old promises of preparing for the World Cup 2018 , 2022 and 2026!

It is such a shame for Iranian football. The nation that has abundant talents in all major sports as the heroes of Iran Volleyball team is proving for the World right now. Yet football is managed and run by a group of incompetent lot who has not managed to gratify the passionate fans for ages.