{"id":19187,"date":"2014-09-06T23:46:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T06:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19187"},"modified":"2014-09-06T23:55:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T06:55:39","slug":"no-one-has-called-me-from-iff-says-queiroz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/09\/06\/no-one-has-called-me-from-iff-says-queiroz\/","title":{"rendered":"No one has called me from IFF, says Queiroz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 <strong>While there is a lot of uncertainty over the future of Iran\u2019s national football team coaching role, the Team Melli manager in 2014 World Cup Carlos Queiroz stated no one from Iran&#8217;s Football Federation has contacted him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot tell you when I can come back to Iran. Until today I haven&#8217;t receive any call from IFF,\u201d Queiroz told Tehran Times.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese coach whose visa was due to expire, left Iran last Friday without reaching an agreement with IFF to sign a contract extension. The situation has gone from bad to worse for Iran after British media linked the 61-year old with Leeds United job.<\/p>\n<p>Queiroz spent five years as a member of Manchester United coaching staff over two spells at the club, working as the assistant to Sir Alex Ferguson winning three Premier League title and a Champions League final victory.<\/p>\n<p>With less than four months left before the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, the Iran&#8217;s national football team is without a coach.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian media acknowledged that Hossein Faraki tops the list of candidates for leading the national team if IFF couldn\u2019t reach an agreement with Queiroz.<\/p>\n<p>Under the tutelage of Carlos Queiroz, the Iranian national football team played out a goalless draw against Nigeria, suffered a late 1-0 defeat against Argentina, and lost 3-1 to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Group F of the 2014 World Cup.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 While there is a lot of uncertainty over the future of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4098,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}