{"id":34749,"date":"2018-12-31T09:47:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T17:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34749"},"modified":"2018-12-31T09:47:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T17:47:46","slug":"queiroz-all-praise-for-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/31\/queiroz-all-praise-for-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Queiroz all praise for Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gulf Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>The Iranian football establishment should take a leaf out of Qatar\u2019s book when it comes to support for the national football team, legendary Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz said yesterday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 65-year-old Queiroz, who has managed Real Madrid and his native Portugal besides the UAE and South Africa, has been in charge of Iran since <g class=\"gr_ gr_25 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"25\" data-gr-id=\"25\">2011,<\/g> but reckons that the federation is not giving the team the <g class=\"gr_ gr_27 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style multiReplace\" id=\"27\" data-gr-id=\"27\">backing\u00a0 they<\/g> deserve. He <g class=\"gr_ gr_24 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_hide gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"24\" data-gr-id=\"24\">is particularly miffed<\/g> at the way the authorities refused permission for the team to play three friendly matches that left them short of practice heading to the Asian Cup in the UAE next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>He said Iran would have played only five matches before the continental tournament while they should have played at least 10. \u201cFirst of <g class=\"gr_ gr_23 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"23\" data-gr-id=\"23\">all<\/g> I\u2019d like to thank the Qatar Football Association for hosting us in Doha. Without Qatar\u2019s help particularly miffed we couldn\u2019t have managed to play even five matches before the Asian Cup. <g class=\"gr_ gr_25 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"25\" data-gr-id=\"25\">Ideally<\/g> we should have played at least 10 matches,\u201d Queiroz told journalists at a press conference in Doha.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>Iran and several Asian Cup-bound teams, including China, have used Qatar\u2019s excellent facilities to train and play friendly matches before the tournament that kicks off on January 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>Iran, who are still in Qatar, would be taking on Qatar behind closed doors today, but Queiroz said the squad is still a works in progress because of the Iranian federation\u2019s tendency to \u201ccut corners\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>\u201cThey cut corners and expect me to come up with a magic decision. Tomorrow is our last game before the Asian Cup starts and I\u2019ll have to make some experiments. I\u2019ll have to think about a few things before our first game (against Yemen on Jan 7).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>He said, in sharp contrast, Qatar are nicely placed. \u201cThey have brought in players like Xavi and the best of coaches to Aspire. They have made tremendous progress under Coach Felix Sanchez. They are a completely different team,\u201d added the master tactician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf Times &#8211; DOHA, The Iranian football establishment should take a leaf out of Qatar\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":682,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34749","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=34749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34750,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34749\/revisions\/34750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}