well as far as I'm concerned
if they cut all the budget they are spending on football and spend it on other sports we can get 30 time more medal .
Even better if they would have spend that money and open agricultural complexes we didn't need to import our food any longer .
The problem is actually government involvement in the sport. In every other country, football clubs are run like a business, no different than a company. Football clubs are a source of income for their owners and share holders. In Iran, they're government run, like everything else; and like everything else it doesn't work.
The whole football infrastructure in the country is set up the same way Iran's economy is set up. On top of that, because of a lack of a true private ownership structure, as well as a lack of a free market economy at large, these clubs are always broke. Financially struggling clubs that can't even pay their players on time obviously won't have cash to build training schools and academies nor will they spend money in their communities to develop young talent.
In Iran everybody likes to say that too much money is spent on football. Well, the solution is very simple: a free market economy with true private ownership. These clubs are actually EXTREMELY poor by world standards, but to keep the sport alive and allow Iran to compete internationally, the govt is forced to keep them alive artificially.
Let's look at a British club and its source of incomes:
1) TV and media - every channel that shows footage of a specific club must reimburse the club (after all the channel is financially benefiting and creating a business from the club, so they must give them a cut of the business).
2) Sponsorship deals - this is obvious, but what isn't obvious to most people in Iran is the extent to which clubs get paid. Manchester United, for example, will receive 1.3 BILLION dollars from Adidas for only a 10 year deal (starting in 2015-16). This is just so they can provide United with kits. In Iran clubs pay the kit manufacturers lool. Then you have the revenue from allowing ads to run in their own stadiums and on their kits etc...
3) Ticket sales - most foreign clubs pay for their own stadiums, but in return they set their ticket prices. Most tickets in England cost well over 100 dollars for even the worst seats (most bigger clubs charge 200-300 dollars per game easy).
4) Video games, kit and memorabilia sales, fan goods etc... - everything from FIFA games to official jerseys, flags, team mugs with the team logo etc... makes them money
5) Success in their leagues and continental tournaments - the league itself, in most countries around the world, is run like a private business and they're motivated to bring in more income through growing interest in the sport and the league itself. They pay clubs handsomely for success as doing good brings in more viewers to the sport and the league in general.
And I can go on and on. So again, our football is no different than the rest of the country: It's *** backward and it needs a revolution. You can't fix stupid. You need to slap it in the face and start over. Our clubs are piss poor with no cash to even pay their current rosters. Half of these clubs are bankrupt and they can barely provide an annual salary. That means no grassroots development, no community involvement, no football schools, no talent development, no R&D spending (just like with anything else, football needs modernization and if you can't spend money on new ideas, you stay behind), no modern infrastructure, no modern coaching techniques, no modern equipment etc...
Of course at the national level we end up falling behind. Other countries aren't like Iran.