{"id":12045,"date":"2011-04-04T09:16:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T16:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/04\/04\/queiroz-in-tehran-to-coach-irans-team\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T09:16:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T16:16:20","slug":"queiroz-in-tehran-to-coach-irans-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/04\/04\/queiroz-in-tehran-to-coach-irans-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Queiroz in Tehran to coach Iran&#8217;s team"},"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=\"281\" width=\"422\" \/>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Portugal coach  Carlos Queiroz has arrived in Iran for final talks to sign a contract  for steering the Team Melli for the 2014 Brazil World Cup.<\/strong><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by his two assistants, Queiroz arrived in Tehran in the  early hours of Monday and was greeted by a number of Iranian officials  and journalists. <\/p>\n<p>The former Real Madrid boss said upon his arrival that his goal is to help Iran qualify for the future FIFA world cup. <\/p>\n<p>Queiroz visited Iran in February for talks on managing the Iranian  squad but failed to reach an agreement with the Iranian Football  Federation (IFF).  <\/p>\n<p>The IFF now plans to finalize talks with him after Queiroz won his  appeal against the ban he received for insulting anti-doping agents, and  which led to his sacking from Portugal&#8217;s national team in September  last year. <\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement terms, 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. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Portugal coach Carlos Queiroz has arrived in Iran for final talks&#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-12045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2705,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045","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=12045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/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=12045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}