{"id":15470,"date":"2013-06-21T11:40:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=15470"},"modified":"2013-06-21T11:40:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T18:40:02","slug":"queiroz-extends-iran-stay-through-to-2014-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/06\/21\/queiroz-extends-iran-stay-through-to-2014-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Queiroz extends Iran stay through to 2014 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Carlos Queiroz will stay on as Iran&#8217;s football coach through to the 2014 World Cup after leading the West Asians to Brazil, the Portuguese said on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My contract is such that it goes step by step in accordance with the interests of the (Iranian) football federation,&#8221; the 60-year-old former Real Madrid manager was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After qualification to the World Cup it has now been extended until the end of this competition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iran secured a fourth World Cup finals appearance on Tuesday by beating South Korea 1-0 in a match which was preceded by a war of words between Queiroz and Korea coach Choi Kang-hee, who quit after the defeat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Korean coach created an unusual atmosphere before the match. In my 32 years of coaching, I&#8217;ve never encountered such an issue,&#8221; said Queiroz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Talk of war, revenge and blood is not normal. The Korean coach wanted to put our players under pressure with such talk but we used it to motivate our players.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; TEHRAN, Carlos Queiroz will stay on as Iran&#8217;s football coach through to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":15412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4156,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15470","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=15470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}