{"id":46778,"date":"2022-09-14T11:12:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T18:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=46778"},"modified":"2022-09-14T11:12:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T18:12:44","slug":"roger-de-sa-opens-up-on-iran-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/09\/14\/roger-de-sa-opens-up-on-iran-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger de Sa opens up on Iran appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SABC Sports &#8211; Johannesburg, <strong>Former Orlando Pirates coach Roger de Sa has opened up to SABC Sport on how he and world-renowned mentor, as well as long-time confidant, Carlos Queiroz landed the Iran job.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">News of De Sa\u2019s appointment as part of Queiroz\u2019s technical team was confirmed at the weekend, which will now see him go to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The duo, who recently also worked together in the Egyptian National Team\u2019s technical staff, will reunite once again and the former Bafana Bafana shot-stopper&nbsp;tells the public broadcaster how it all came about.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cProbably about a week after we left Egypt, Iran started making contact with Carlos and we went and had a couple of conversations about it, and we reached an agreement a couple of weeks ago,\u201d said De Sa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was just a question of a couple of finer details to sort out and then once that was achieved, it\u2019s another World Cup and why not have a go? If they want you, you come and do the job and see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De Sa says he is relishing the moment to once again learn from Queiroz having worked as his assistant coach in Egypt, being part of this year\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations side that lost to Senegal in the final.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s bittersweet to be at the World Cup with another country but, after the two of them qualified Bafana to the 2002 global showpiece, they were kicked to the curb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cObviously being in another World Cup with different countries and not my own is always a little bit different, I suppose. The time that we did qualify my country, we got fired and somebody else went,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo, another World Cup with another country, it\u2019s a fantastic experience and it\u2019s a professional job, you\u2019ve got to get out there, do the best you can, work with different cultures and different players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut it\u2019s been great and I think Carlos has vast experience, which is always great to learn from and having the opportunity to meet all the different star players, and players that play all over the world has been fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SABC Sports &#8211; Johannesburg, Former Orlando Pirates coach Roger de Sa has opened up to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":46779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1271,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46778","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=46778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46780,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46778\/revisions\/46780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}