According to Sport Se, last week, the Football Federation finally managed to get the consent of the Dohok club to terminate the contract with Yahya Golmohammadi and agree with this 56-year-old and proud head coach for the position of the head coach of the Omid team. Yahya, who has achieved many honors in Iranian football in the last two decades, has now returned home for a difficult mission and plans to cancel the spell of Omid team’s decades of failure to advance to the Olympics. Minutes before the press conference, Yahya Golmohammadi’s first press conference as the head coach of Omid team began with the presence of journalists and of course Mehdi Taj, the head of the Football Federation.
Mehdi Taj said at the beginning of the press conference: Thank you to all the loved ones who worked hard and came; Respected media and members of the Board of Directors, the Secretary General of the Federation and all of you who are here. Also, from Mr. Golmohammadi, who is one of my dear and hard-working football friends and knows the game of football very well.
I remember when Yahya was playing football, I wanted to recruit him for a team and once I wanted Yahya as the head coach for a team. In any case, I know Yahya well and I am sure that, God willing, we will be able to take an effective step towards going to the Olympics this time.
Several members of our team are under the age of 21 and these players are the target market of Mr. Golmohammadi. Of course, the adult national team also uses these players, and in general, we feel that we will be successful this time, and Mr. Golmohammadi will definitely do his best to achieve success with his colleagues. I would like to thank the football board for expressing interest in hiring Mr. Golmohammadi, and I also thank Mr. Qalanewi, and Yahya was their favorite person, and Mr. Qalanewi himself is not in Tehran today. I would like to thank all the loved ones who worked hard to hire Yahya.
But Yahya Golmohammadi said in the first part of his speech: I thank God that this finally happened. I accepted the first offer that came to me without any hesitation and the biggest motivation for me is to be able to help the youth of my country. Without any hesitation or thought, I accepted this offer wholeheartedly. I am very happy and of course I know how important this position and responsibility is, and for this reason, I am proud of myself for accepting this responsibility. Well, as you know, according to the existing conditions, there are high-quality and wonderful talents in our country. Many of these young and talented players have not been seen until this moment and this is a very good opportunity for us to provide them with the opportunity to be seen.
I hope that we, as football coaches and anyone who has the power to make decisions in this field, can help in finding and identifying talents and we can build the future of football together. The main goal is to reach the Olympics, but in my opinion, the bigger goal is to build the future of this football. This goal will happen with a good interaction and cooperation between the clubs and coaches and the Omid team and the senior national team, the National Olympic Committee and the Ministry of Sports. Everyone should join hands to build the future of football. This is our first goal and we can definitely achieve this by doing good work and doing structural work. Regarding the Olympics, I must say that reaching this tournament is our big goal and we will do our best to achieve this goal.
The entrance to the national team is open to all young players of the country. Our main goal is that not even one talented player of the country is ignored and we all have to create an environment where talented players can be seen. Iran’s football talents are good and high-quality young people and are considered a great blessing. They can be a source of good and blessing for Iranian football and can continue to help the senior national team as well. But these players need to be identified and discovered, and this goal will be a really big and fundamental task. I definitely can’t handle this alone and that’s why I asked the authorities to introduce me technical colleagues and their number must be high, so that we can discover these players in all the provinces of the country. We need a lot of strength and even the media themselves can help create this space for the youth of the football community.
Mehdi Taj said in the final part of this press conference: In the previous period, the Minister of Sports held three to four meetings with me and the members of the board of directors and the head coach of the Omid team, and they had all-round support. Now they will have full support. The Minister of Sports was aware of our selection and they will also support this collection. Also, the government and the assembly of the Ministry of Sports will continue the same process, and of course this support is natural. Because the discussion of the national team of our dear country is in the middle and the talk of the country, the soil, the homeland and the flag has come up and we all have to stand up and do this in the best possible way and support the team.
