Karim Bagheri is one of the greats of Iranian football, who does not speak much, but at the same time is a good conversationalist. The lasting face of Iranian football, who is now the first assistant of Mehdi Tartar in Persepolis.
Bagheri had conducted an interesting interview with Khabarozashi on November 20, 2009:
- Charlton coaches had already seen the video of my games and in the 2000-1999 season we went to England with Engineer Abedini to negotiate with them. Alan Curbishley, the Scottish head coach of this team, said to play for half an hour so that I can see the card closely. Mr. Abedini disagreed and said that the player’s dignity should be preserved, but I calmly told him that now that we have come to England, playing for half an hour is nothing for me, anyway, football here is different from everywhere in the world. I played and immediately after that they took me to the club and we signed a three-year contract. It was at the beginning of Charlton training that I unfortunately lost my father and left the camp.
- Due to the death of my father, I went through a difficult mental situation, but I returned to England. Anyway, I was behind the team and I was slowly reaching the optimal conditions when the 2000 Lebanon Nations Cup started and I left again. After that, the 2002 World Cup qualifiers started and I was also involved in national games, that’s why Charlton’s head coach told me to send you to a first division team to play there and come back to us again in the Premier League, but I disagreed and left.
- The financial situation of our family was not bad, but last summer I was a student of my father’s friend.
- Blazovic was good with the fixed players but treated the others like strangers. This behavior is not appropriate in a team because everyone should be like a family.
- My worst national match was against Bahrain on 29 Mehr 1380, where we lost 3-1. I still feel like they put something in our food at lunch before the game and made the kids pass out.
- Technically, Ali Akbar Ustad Asadi was much higher than some defenders of his era, but because he did not have a party in the media, they made him a subject. They even made this rumor that Mr. Faeghi is his uncle.
- If I were Ali Daei, I would not have become the head coach of the national team in the winter of 2006. Now he himself mentions this issue.
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