Winfried Schäfer: 'I Never Met a Person in Favor of the Iranian Regime'
By Atousa Pilger
The German football coach Winfried Schäfer, who led FC Esteghlal Tehran from 2017 to 2019 said in an exclusive interview with German t-online.de website that “Nobody supports the regime in Iran.”
Schäfer also insisted that everyone he met was scared [in Iran], although It's hard to imagine it if one did not live in Iran.
"In two years, I never met a person who was in favor of the regime – and I speak of people from very different backgrounds. Industrialists. Academics. Football players. Taxi drivers and even ministers" said the 69-year-old Schäfer. "The people I've met, no matter young or old, are not at all in line with the regime," he added.