{"id":35377,"date":"2019-02-02T08:08:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T16:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35377"},"modified":"2019-02-02T08:08:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T16:08:33","slug":"qatar-bankrolled-irans-afc-asian-cup-2019-campaign-carlos-queiroz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/02\/02\/qatar-bankrolled-irans-afc-asian-cup-2019-campaign-carlos-queiroz\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar bankrolled Iran\u2019s AFC Asian Cup 2019 campaign: Carlos Queiroz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fox Sports Asia &#8211; ABU DHABI, <strong>In a shocking revelation, IR Iran\u2019s outgoing coach Carlos Queiroz has revealed that&nbsp;<em>Team Melli\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><strong>participation at the AFC Asian Cup 2019 was only possible due to the financial aid provided by the Qatar Football Association!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lack of financial assistance from the Iran government towards the national football team has been an issue over the years, but the true extend of it has become apparent after Queiroz\u2019s interview for local television has gone viral after their semifinal exit from the continental championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf it was not for the QFA, we would have nothing! This camp would not be possible. The preparation and the friendlies \u2014 not possible. They paid for everything,\u201d Queiroz, <g class=\"gr_ gr_6 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"6\" data-gr-id=\"6\">who\u2019s contract<\/g> with Iran ended after the Asian Cup, is heard saying in the video clip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur last game \u2014 they paid for the stadium, pitch and both the teams. Qatar paid for everything because Iran have nothing \u2014 Zero!\u201d said the former Real Madrid manager in the interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA lot of bad feelings in this moment. I needed to work to keep this team, players and staff together. The reality is it is not easy. We cannot pretend that there is no problem \u2014 There are problems for everybody,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran who haven\u2019t won the Asian Cup for 43 years had reached the semifinals of the tournament in the United Arab Emirates, but lost out to eventual runners-up Japan 3-0 after a disastrous second half performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Queiroz,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsportsasia.com\/football\/asian-football\/afc-asian-cup\/1031039\/carlos-queiroz-5-defining-moments-with-iran-as-he-marks-100th-match-vs-japan-in-afc-asian-cup-2019\/\">who has been in charge of&nbsp;<em>Team Melli&nbsp;<\/em>since 2011,<\/a>&nbsp;will vacate his position as the Iran head coach after the Asian Cup exit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Sports Asia &#8211; ABU DHABI, In a shocking revelation, IR Iran\u2019s outgoing coach Carlos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35377","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":2772,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35377","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=35377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35378,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35377\/revisions\/35378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}