{"id":34674,"date":"2018-12-26T10:27:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T18:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34674"},"modified":"2018-12-26T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T18:27:44","slug":"afc-asian-cup-2019-5-most-high-profile-coaches-in-the-tournament-carlos-queiroz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/26\/afc-asian-cup-2019-5-most-high-profile-coaches-in-the-tournament-carlos-queiroz\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Asian Cup 2019: 5 most high-profile coaches in the tournament [Carlos Queiroz]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fox Sports Asia &#8211; HONG KONG, <strong>The AFC Asian Cup 2019 is closing in and all eyes will be on the superstars that do battle on the field over the course of a month. However, the managers on the sidelines play an equally important role, barking instructions as they attempt to mastermind their team\u2019s success.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From World Cup-winning coaches to managers who held the reins at clubs like Real Madrid and Juventus, FOX Sports Asia looks at <g class=\"gr_ gr_24 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"24\" data-gr-id=\"24\">the<\/g> most high-profile coaches at the continental competition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#5 Carlos Queiroz (Iran)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best remembered for his hugely successful partnership with Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, where he served as the assistant coach in two different spells, Queiroz too has a glittering resume to boast of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Queiroz performed various roles at United \u2013 from chief adviser to Sir Alex, to designated&nbsp;post-match interviewee to master tactician, the Portuguese was a hugely respected figure at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having worked with the cream of the crop \u2013 David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane and Cristiano Ronaldo to name a few \u2013 Queiroz took the unconventional route when he signed with Iran way back in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the Portuguese, some of Iran\u2019s finest talents came to the fore including the likes of Ashkan Dejagah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a&nbsp;58.70 per cent win rate since taking charge, Queiroz has made Iran quite a force to be reckoned with, not just in Asia, but worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will be looking to mastermind Iran\u2019s fourth triumph at the Asian Cup, but their first since 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Sports Asia &#8211; HONG KONG, The AFC Asian Cup 2019 is closing in and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":673,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34674","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34676,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34674\/revisions\/34676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}