{"id":11937,"date":"2011-02-09T05:30:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T13:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/09\/iff-likely-to-ink-contract-with-carlos-queiroz\/"},"modified":"2011-02-09T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T13:30:24","slug":"iff-likely-to-ink-contract-with-carlos-queiroz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/09\/iff-likely-to-ink-contract-with-carlos-queiroz\/","title":{"rendered":"IFF likely to ink contract with Carlos Queiroz"},"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=\"225\" width=\"338\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The former Portugal coach Carlos Queiroz is most likely to become the new head coach of Iran football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After arriving in Tehran on Monday night, the 57-year-old said, \u201cI am happy to be here. I am negotiating with the Iranian football officials but I have to stress there is nothing concrete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen Iran\u2019s performance in the Asian Cup in Doha and I know Iran has many talented players. Now, I want to know what their expectations are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Queiroz has not been in any team since he was axed by the Portuguese Football Federation last September after the poor start in the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The former Real Madrid coach is understood to have held talks with Iranian Football Federation (IFF) president Ali Kaffashian in Tehran, with reports indicating he has been offered a three-year contract worth $6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is scheduled to play a friendly against Russia at the Sheikh Zayed Sports City in the UAE on Wednesday and Queiroz will watch the match from the seats.<\/p>\n<p>The much-travelled Queiroz will bring a wealth of experience to the role having been manager of the United Arab Emirates and South Africa amongst others during a 20-year coaching career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, The former Portugal coach Carlos Queiroz is most likely to become the&#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-11937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2968,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937","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=11937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937\/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=11937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}