{"id":19175,"date":"2014-09-04T11:12:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T18:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19175"},"modified":"2014-09-04T11:13:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T18:13:51","slug":"queiroz-will-return-to-iran-says-iff-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/09\/04\/queiroz-will-return-to-iran-says-iff-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Queiroz will return to Iran, says IFF chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran&#8217;s Football Federation president Ali Kaffashian has announced that Carlos Queiroz will return to sign his contract extension as the head coach of Iran&#8217;s national football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese coach whose visa was due to expire, flew to Dubai last Friday, leaving the future of Team Melli&#8217;s coaching role uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have prepared everything Queiroz has asked. We have organized a well equipped training camp which was his priority. He will return to Iran very soon to sign his contract extension. He will be Iran&#8217;s coach in the AFC Asian Cup&#8221; Kaffashian said.<\/p>\n<p>With less than four months left before the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, the Iranian team is without a coach.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian media acknowledged that Hossein Faraki tops the list of candidates for leading the national team if IFF couldn&#8217;t reach an agreement with Queiroz.<\/p>\n<p>Under the tutelage of Carlos Queiroz, the Iranian national football 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&#8217;s Football Federation president Ali Kaffashian has announced that Carlos Queiroz&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":18785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4868,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19175","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=19175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}