{"id":11930,"date":"2011-02-06T05:55:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T13:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/06\/carlos-queiroz-may-lead-iran-squad\/"},"modified":"2011-02-06T05:55:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T13:55:28","slug":"carlos-queiroz-may-lead-iran-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/06\/carlos-queiroz-may-lead-iran-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Queiroz may lead Iran squad [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"queiroz_action\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/queiroz_action.jpg\" height=\"222\" width=\"333\" \/>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Director of Iran&#8217;s  Football Federation (IFF) Ali Kaffashian says Portuguese coach Carlos  Queiroz will probably take the helm of the Iranian national soccer  squad.<\/strong><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/p>\n<p>The former Real Madrid boss is to travel to the Iranian capital,  Tehran, on Sunday to hold negotiations with Kaffashian, Goal.com  reported on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>If the two sides reach an agreement, Queiroz will lead the Iranian  outfit for the next three years with an annual salary of about two  million dollars.  <\/p>\n<p>Queiroz has won several awards as a coach in junior levels, and he has been fairly successful at senior and club levels.  <\/p>\n<p>He is considered the discoverer of the Portuguese &#8220;Golden  Generation&#8221; in the early 1990s, which include Luis Figo and Rui Costa.  <\/p>\n<p>The 57-year-old coach was Sir Alex Ferguson&#8217;s assistant manager at the English club Manchester United for a long time. <\/p>\n<p>In July 2008, he left Old Trafford to become the head coach of the Portuguese national football team.  <\/p>\n<p>Queiroz was sacked by the Portuguese Football Federation in  September 2010 after Portugal&#8217;s poor start to its Euro 2012 qualifying  campaign. <\/p>\n<p>Iran faces Russia in a warm-up match at the Sheikh Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi, the UAE, on February 9.<br \/><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Interview with Queiroz on <span style=\"color: #339966;\">PFDCTV<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YSR0mPy7p1k\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YSR0mPy7p1k<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, Director of Iran&#8217;s Football Federation (IFF) Ali Kaffashian says Portuguese coach Carlos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4021,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}