In less than 24 hours from his appointment as the head coach of the Iranian National Futsal team, Shamsaei has announced that he will not attend to his duty as the head coach unless certain conditions are met.
In an interview with Mehrnews , Shamasei expressed his anger and dismay at being designated as the caretaker Head coach of Team Melli, as stated by the head of the Futsal committee Seyed Reza Efitkhari. “I am not interested in this temporary job. I will only accept the job if it is permanent basis and the term is up the next FIFA Futsal World Cup in 2016.”
“|I am not going to run around and beg for the job, I am still committed to my team Tasisat Daryaei. There are certain condition that must be met for me to accept the job and for the a team to have a good chance of success . If these conditions are not met I am not going to turn it down.”
Despite the fact that Reza Eftikhari claimed that appointment of Shamsaei has the blessing of President of the FFIRI, that seems to be far from the truth. Ali Kaffashian has denied that he gave his blessing to Shamsaei “Yes, we have discussed the appointment of the head coach for Futsal team but no specific names were put forward and I did not endorsed anyone” Ali Kaffashian said in a statement to the press.
On this subject, Vahid Shamsaei commented by saying “It is the full right of Kaffashian to say that my appointment is not finalized. In fact he is right, we have not reached a final agreement.”
Shamsaei admitted to Mehrnews sport reporter that his selection ahead of many more experienced coaches was unreasonable but claimed that he has taken the permission of some veteran coaches and personalities before accepting the job that he is now refusing to take !
In a related matter, Abbas Torabian added more fuel to fire in this embarrassing affair by denying that the Futsal Committee was involved in the selection of Vahid Shamsaei. “We have a system running here everything is by the book. All procedures are defined and responsibilities assigned. The selection of the head coach should have been carried out by this committee. I declare here to everyone, that the futsal committee was not involved in appointing Shamsaei as the head coach.”
The head of the Futsal Technical Committee, refused to confirm that Shamsaei has gone through the selection process and the FFIRI has done the due diligence in this selection. “I was not involved and I wouldn’t know if he went through the process.”
Torabian has expressed his concern on the way that Shamsaei has been picked. “This is a decision that has been taken in haste and sounds like being emotional. Taking temporary decisions is nothing new here. Many decisions have been taken temporarily around us. Everything is temporary, and now the decision on new interim head coach of futsal team. I do not wish to talk about it any further.”
As such, the FFIRI and its administrators, once again put themselves in a very awkward and embarrassing situation. It sounds that Eftikhari has taken an individual decision without referring to the rulebook and by claiming the support of Kaffashian which was denied by the President of FFIRI . Despite this blunder , and there has been so much of it of late , these failures , incompetence and ineptitudes by this administration , are becoming a habit while those committing it in FFIRI are becoming immune from being embarrassed. The person like Reza Eftikhari in this case do not ponder on the humiliation of making blunders and perhaps has a package of excuses and justification ready for launch.