{"id":18889,"date":"2014-07-25T11:45:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T18:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18889"},"modified":"2014-07-25T14:16:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T21:16:49","slug":"queiroz-is-only-candidate-for-iran-coach-iff-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/07\/25\/queiroz-is-only-candidate-for-iran-coach-iff-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Queiroz is only candidate for Iran coach: IFF chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran Football Federation General Secretary Mehdi Mohammad Nabi has said that he is in contact with Carlos Queiroz and the Portuguese coach will return to Iran in August to continue contract extension negotiations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cQueiroz accepted our initial offer, and he will return to Iran to finalize the deal. He is our only candidate, and the rumors about him reaching an agreement with South Africa\u2019s football federation are rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>Queiroz denied this speculation in the South African media,\u201d Nabi told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The South African newspaper the Cape Times reported on Wednesday that Carlos Queiroz would be named Bafana Bafana coach on Saturday &#8212; if he and the South African Football Association (SAFA) could agree on his salary.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s offer was reportedly a whopping 150% more lucrative than what SAFA put on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Nabi also denied holding any negotiations with other candidates and insisted that Queiroz is the IFF\u2019s only choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have any alternative for the post, and Queiroz is our only candidate,\u201d Nabi added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will soon begin preparing for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, which will be held in Australia from January 9 to 31, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Under the tutelage of Carlos Queiroz, the Iranian national team played out a goalless draw against Nigeria, suffered a late 1-0 defeat against Argentina, and lost 3-1 to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Group F of the 2014 World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran Football Federation General Secretary Mehdi Mohammad Nabi has said that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25049,"featured_media":18504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4502,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18889","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\/25049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}