Why the best football club's like real madrid or AC Milan don't come to countris like

[Siamak]

I.R.Iran ? you know we have best players in our country , and our football skill is not bad , and our country is a traditional , and safe country for tourist but , the important teams or players don't come to iran , to play football , but they go to countries like Japan , or China!!! but they have a lot of fans here , we really want to see them here!!!

[Nirvana]

Dude, they don't go to Japan/China that's England. The reason they don't go to Iran is cause they have to prepare for matches every week/weekend. And the reason they go to the likes of Japan or China is that they might have Pre-Season friendlies against teams in Japan and China.

[fatherjohnson2003]

Once your government starts behaving itself, maybe the world will view your nation as a reasonable place.































You are led by a madman, bent on causing problems!

[simo9352]

Well I'm British and your country kidnapped a group of are soldiers and humiliated them recently so I wouldn't count on any premiership teams playing there any time soon.































p.s. This questions a joke right?

[Twigglet]

I live in Canada they don't visit us either, so don't feel so bad. At least one can say they don't visit you guys because of all the turmoil which is happening right next door...But what can we give as our excuse? Okay besides the fact they would cream us in a game... hmm maybe its not fun winning a game 12-0...































I actually enjoyed watching the Iran national team play in the World Cup you guys had some very good players, some very promising young players.... Japan has a lot of money, they can pay enough to get a big team to come play an exhibition game... I was reading on-line at ticket master how much it costs to see a Real Madrid game... if I put that from Euros into Canadian dollars, it would cost me $1000 to watch one of their games..

[sauceatffa]

Iran needs to sort iself out first. Also its money Chelsea, Madrid ETC tour where they will build a fan base who will buy the merchandise and in future will pay to watch the games on the net. You think the moneys silly now. Just wait till Pay per view is globally available. Imagine 600 million Chinese watching and paying even a small amount each. Thats serious money. Hence the reason that the Americans are buying up all the teams. They can smell the dollars that will be made in a few years.

[Traveler]

These are main reasons:















First of all none of Iranian teams can afford these teams' expenses. Awfully, Iranian teams can not urge a sponser to supply them for such a thing.















2- Copyright.















when milan, Madrid, Man U go to china or japan or Thailand their income rises too much due to sales of jersies.That thing is impossible in Iran because there is no copyright in Iran. You can find almost in every sport shop in Tehran a jersey of Manchester Utd., juventus, Milan, barcelona with a cheap price and with different brands. So there is not a benefit like this for those teams so they prefer going to the Far Eastern countries.















3. Lack of standard traing pitches.















4. Most of European football managers prefer to take their teams somewhere that is not involved in political problems. Even if they are aware of safety in Tehran but they prefer to take their fans somewhere that they can dink and also wear whatever they like.















If you remember, Bayern Munich came to Iran last year to have friendly match against Perspolice but they came in the morning and left after the match!































Finally I strongly agree with you Iranian are the most eager Asian people to see Milan or Real in Iran but that's not possible until the clubs become non-governmental and invest more in their pitches and facilities. And also Copyright becomes respectable in Iran.