{"id":17779,"date":"2014-04-07T09:48:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17779"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:48:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T16:48:12","slug":"kaffashian-we-wanted-to-extend-queirozs-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/04\/07\/kaffashian-we-wanted-to-extend-queirozs-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaffashian: we wanted to extend Queiroz\u2019s contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Head of Iran Football Federation Ali Kaffashian announced that Carlos Queiroz\u2019s contract extension was an option considered by Iran, but noted that the federation cannot afford to pay his salary. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Queiroz said on Sunday that the Iranian Football Federation has not yet negotiated with him to extend his contract, but Kaffashian rejected his claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI talked to Queiroz in person and offered him a contract extension, but the existing problem is the amount of his salary and that of his assistants, which we have to pay in dollars,\u201d Kaffashian told the Tasnim News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to pay him and his assistants some 4, 5 million dollars a year,&#8221; he explained, adding that the federation cannot afford to pay that amount of money.<\/p>\n<p>Kaffashian then called on the government to provide the football federation with the financial supports.<\/p>\n<p>We want Queiroz to stay at the helm of Iran&#8217;s national football team after 2014 World Cup, but the problem remains to be lack of financial resources to extend his contract, Kaffashian explained.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the IFF&#8217;s plans to find a replacement for Queiroz, Kaffashian said, \u201cWe have not made any decicion on the issue so far, and we should wait to see how the things will go on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Head of Iran Football Federation Ali Kaffashian announced that Carlos Queiroz\u2019s contract&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3950,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17779","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=17779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}