2024-01-04T08:29:13+00:00
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/ The statement of the Iraqi national football team’s Spanish coach, Jesus Casas, about the team winning the Asian Cup again and that he could not promise the Iraqis this, sparked a wave of mixed reactions within the sports community, while specialized coaches criticized the timing he made, especially with the proximity of The tournament began, while others were not surprised by the difficulty of competition between the participating teams.
Casas said in a lengthy interview with a Gulf newspaper: “I am not a fool to promise the Iraqis the Asian Cup.” In this regard, Agency surveyed the opinions of a number of specialized trainers about this frank matter.
“A provocative and crazy statement”
Coach Jabbar Hamid told Agency: “I respect Casas as a coach, but his statement was provocative, and it was very strange, especially at this critical time, especially since he came out as a professional coach in front of millions of Iraqis who are waiting for joy from their team, and with all the support that was provided to him from He accepted the federation during his term of office, which no previous federation had offered to another local or foreign coach during the period preceding the leadership of our national teams.”
Hamid believed that “Casas, with his latest statement, confirms that he does not have confidence in his choices, and that he has not settled on the lineup until this moment,” adding that “Casas destroyed the morale of the players with his strange statement, and he should have been wiser in issuing his statements,” as he put it.
Hamid described Casas’s statement as “a crazy statement that lacks the most basic elements of optimism, especially since the entire Iraqi public is waiting for joy from their team in the largest continental tournament, and is also waiting for optimistic statements from the team’s coach even if he does not promise them a positive result in the tournament,” adding that “There are better methods and methods than what Casas mentioned in his statement, through which he frustrated the psychology of the players and the Iraqi public.”
Hamid cited the achievement of the 2007 Asian Cup, when Iraq won its title, explaining, “Football is the mother of surprises, and our team won the title at that time under the most difficult circumstances that the country was going through. It did not play any matches in its stadiums, and it suffered a lot due to transfers between countries, and it did not have professional players and did not compete.” Friendly matches at high levels, and not in developed countries, as all of this is available to our current team.”
“Why didn’t he say it earlier?”
In turn, the star of the 2007 Asian Cup, Qusai Mounir, told Agency, “When any team enters a tournament, it enters as a competitor, and within its coach and players there is determination and determination to achieve a good result, but if that is not achieved, then everyone has worked and worked hard, but they have not succeeded in achieving what they achieved.” They worked hard for him.”
He added that Casas’s statement was completely inappropriate, and that his exciting statement puts us before the questions: Why did he not make it earlier? And why did he choose this particular time when he was aware of all the details of the players?
Mounir warned that “every coach has an indicator after the work he does in preparing, preparing and selecting players, and Casas’s statement confirms that his indicator has become clear that he will not achieve a positive result in the upcoming Asian Championship after his failure to prepare the team before the start of the tournament and to provide justifications in advance.”
“What Casas said was very smart.”
While coach Ali Abdul-Jabbar said, “Casas’s statement is not strange, and I consider the Asian Cup a mini-World Cup in which advanced teams that have become influential and dominant in the Asian continent participate.”
He considered that “Casas’s last statement was very smart and he tried to keep the players away from pressure, considering that the players were thinking about facing the strongest Asian team, which is the Japanese team.”
Abdul-Jabbar went on to say, “Casas, from my point of view, demands the players perform and the result as well, and the Iraqi team players in this case are required to perform before the result.”
He concluded by saying, “I think that the most important thing for Casas is to think about qualifying for the World Cup, and at the same time perform honorably in the Asian Championship.”