{"id":47989,"date":"2023-01-17T19:06:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T03:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=47989"},"modified":"2023-01-17T19:06:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T03:06:04","slug":"queiroz-still-in-race-to-take-charge-of-iran-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/01\/17\/queiroz-still-in-race-to-take-charge-of-iran-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Queiroz still in race to take charge of Iran [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Carlos Queiroz still has a chance to be appointed as Iran football team head coach.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Queiroz headed Iran in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, where Team Melli suffered two defeats against England and the U.S. and earned a win over Wales and failed to book a place in the knockout stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Portuguese coach\u2019s contract ran out after Iran failed to qualify for the World Cup knockout stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The football federation is not in a hurry to appoint the new head coach for the National Team, since it has learned the lessons of previous years\u2019 disastrous defeat for choosing Mark Wilmots as head coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic, who leads Oman at the moment, is among the candidates to lead the Team as well as Iranian coaches Amir Ghalenoei and Farhad Majidi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federation\u2019s board of directors have not yet reached a consensus over the new head coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The possibility exists that the National Team will be headed by an interim coach in the upcoming matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With many experts showing dissatisfaction on re-appointing Carlos Queiroz, the Portuguese coach still has a chance to be named Iran new head coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Carlos Queiroz still has a chance to be appointed as Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1486,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47989","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=47989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47990,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47989\/revisions\/47990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}