A dilemma for Iranian traditional coaches

PFDC- The Iranian Football Federation (IFF) announced a memorandum to all Iranian clubs who participate in the Iranian Pro-league (IPL) as a reminder of the rules and regulations which requires all the coaches to have C or B licenses approved by the AFC in order for the clubs to stay in the IPL.

This has caused a dilemma for the Iranian coaches who became coaches, once being a star player and without higher education in modern football to comply with the standards of the AFC.

This rule covers the age-groups of U14, U16, U19, U21, U23 and the Adult team in Football and U19, U21 and the adults in Futsal.

Some of the coaches who will be worried about this specific rule would be the following:

Ali Parvin (Persepolis), Nasser Hejazi (Esteghlal-Rasht), Pourheidari (Esteghlal), Mahmoud Yavari (Tracktor), Nasser Ebrahimi(Persepolis), Bahram Atef (ZobAhan), Karimi and etc.

These coaches can not be present on the team bench according to the IPL rules. It will be interesting to see what would happen if the IFF starts to accurately enforce this rule.