{"id":19271,"date":"2014-09-17T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T18:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19271"},"modified":"2014-09-17T11:29:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T18:29:14","slug":"our-top-goal-is-to-qualify-for-2018-world-cup-says-queiroz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/09\/17\/our-top-goal-is-to-qualify-for-2018-world-cup-says-queiroz\/","title":{"rendered":"Our top goal is to qualify for 2018 World Cup, says Queiroz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz has finally signed a new four-year contract with Iran Football Federation (IFF) that will see him remain in charge of Team Melli until the 2018 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all I would like to thank Iranian fans, players and football federation that put trust in me to continue as the head coach. I hope we could get good results to make all Iranians proud of their team,\u201d Queiroz said in the press conference after signing the contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter four years you know me, I\u2019m not the person to promise but we will try our best to reach our goals. After the World Cup, we\u2019ve discussed about a new project and new plans. We will start the project and our short-term goal is to win the AFC Asian Cup. Our second goal is clear. We\u2019ll try to win every game and qualify for the 2018 World Cup,\u201d Portuguese coach added.<\/p>\n<p>IFF president Ali Kaffashian stated that our main goal is to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy that we\u2019ve chosen our coach, while there is plenty of time left until the next World Cup. Our main goal is to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia but we\u2019ve divided Queiroz contract into three phases. The first one is AFC Asian Cup, we will analyze Queiroz\u2019s performance and if it is acceptable we would continue our cooperation, otherwise the contract will be terminated,\u201d Kaffashian said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second phase is in the World Cup qualifying games and if he is successful he would be Iran\u2019s coach at the 2018 World Cup in the third phase,\u201d Kaffashian added.<\/p>\n<p>Kaffashian also stated that Queiroz will choose his assistants himself and there is no pressure from IFF to select anyone.<\/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<p>The AFC Asian Cup which will take place in Australia from 9 to 31 January 2015, is the first major test for the Portuguese man if he accepts Iran job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz has finally signed a new four-year contract&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":19272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5515,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19271","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=19271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}