Team Melli’s head coach got quite upset by a question on the comparison between his style and that of Queiroz.

In the postmatch press conference following Iran’s 2-2 draw against Uzbekistan, a reporter asked Ghalenoei whether the current Iranian team is better than the team he led in the AFC Asian Cup in 2007, in response, Ghalenoei said ” I have been the head coach of the national team twice and both times the condition of the national team has been good in terms of players.”

In response to a question by an Uzbek journalist, who asked if he (Ghalenoei ) is following Carlos Queiroz’s style and game plan, or if he has his own different ideas for the Iran Team” Ghalenoei said: “First of all, I must say that Queiroz is a great coach and has worked very hard for Iranian football, but this question to me, who has been coaching for 22 years, is out of place, it’s not an interesting question. I became the head coach of the national team twice and I have many trophies in Iran. I also won the Asian club championship during my playing career. I will answer your technical question. People who know my new style of coaching know that my game philosophy is offensive play. The coaching statistics of my previous teams are also available, and almost the most goals scored and the competition of top scorers was from my teams. Since we have little time until the Asian Cup, we have to move forward with these players. I thank my players because they have shown high quality since I arrived and if we won this game it would be our 10th win in a row but this record was broken.”

It seems like Amir Ghalenoei was offended by the question that intimately indicates that he has not produced anything new in terms of players and tactics to this current Team that he has been coaching for approximately a year now.