{"id":11917,"date":"2011-02-01T12:18:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T20:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/01\/carlos-queiroz-to-take-over-iran\/"},"modified":"2011-02-01T12:18:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T20:18:29","slug":"carlos-queiroz-to-take-over-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/01\/carlos-queiroz-to-take-over-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Queiroz close to taking over Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soccernation.com\/files\/image\/carlos-queiroz.jpg\" style=\"float: right;\" height=\"214\" width=\"342\" \/>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Real Madrid boss Carlos Queiroz is close to being revealed as Team Melli&#8217;s new headcoach. The 57-year-old is expected to sign a three-year-deal with the Iranian football Federation still this week.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Queiroz, who is known as longtime assistant coach of Alex Ferguson at Manchester United was released as Portugal headcoach after a disappointing start into Euro 2012 qualification in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that year, Queiroz had led unbeaten Portugal to the knockout stage from a group with Brazil, Ivory Coast and DPR Korea. However, Portgual was then eliminated by later World Champions Spain after a 1-0 defeat.<\/p>\n<p>It had been Queiroz&#8217;s second spell as Portugal boss already after 1991-1993. <\/p>\n<p>The far-travelled physical education degree holder also coached clubsides Sporting Lisbon, the NY Metro Stars and Nagoya Grampus Eight as well as the national teams of the UAE and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Iran are without a coach since being eliminated in quarterfinals of Asian Cup on January 22 and Afshin Ghotbi&#8217;s departure to Shimizu S-Pulse.<\/p>\n<p>Beside Queiroz, Frenchman Roger Lemerre is also reportedly on IFF&#8217;s wishlist.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Real Madrid boss Carlos Queiroz is close to being revealed as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":7823,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}