{"id":35433,"date":"2019-02-07T12:19:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T20:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35433"},"modified":"2019-02-07T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T20:19:12","slug":"colombia-present-carlos-queiroz-on-contract-until-2022-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/02\/07\/colombia-present-carlos-queiroz-on-contract-until-2022-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia present Carlos Queiroz, on contract until 2022 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ESPN &#8211; BOGOTA, <strong>Colombia on Thursday officially presented former Real Madrid and Portugal coach Carlos Queiroz as their new national team coach on a contract that runs until the 2022 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My goal is to preserve the prestige, reputation and placement of the Colombian national team in the world and that will be my first priority,&#8221; the former Manchester United assistant said at the federation&#8217;s headquarters in Bogota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank all the fans in Colombia as well as the federation for putting their faith in me. I hope to do the job as it is supposed to be done.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 65-year-old had been the federation&#8217;s first choice since Jose Pekerman resigned from the post in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most recently Queiroz had been in charge of Iran between 2011 and 2019, leading the country to consecutive World Cups in 2014 and 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/iran\/story\/3761772\/carlos-queiroz-steps-down-as-iran-boss-after-asian-cup-loss-to-japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">He stepped down<\/a>&nbsp;after the Asian Cup semifinal defeat to Japan last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN &#8211; BOGOTA, Colombia on Thursday officially presented former Real Madrid and Portugal coach Carlos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,142,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1683,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35433","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=35433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35435,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35433\/revisions\/35435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}