Carlos Queiroz appointed as head coach of Iranian national football team
Tehran (Pa Alam) – Carlos Queiroz, the former head coach of the Iranian national football team from 2011 to 2019, once again took charge of the team.
The Portuguese coach has been appointed as the new head coach of the Iranian national football team for a second spell to coach the Iranian team at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Queiroz took Iran to the 2014 and 2018 World Cups during an eight-year stint at the helm, the longest in the national team’s history.
Queiroz is replaced Dragan Skocic, the Croatian who was appointed to the job in February 2020, when back-to-back defeats against Bahrain and Iraq – under Belgian Marc Wilmots – had left Iran on the verge of an early exit of the Asian qualifiers.
The Croatian coach did a great job and made Iran the first Asian nation to book their place via the preliminaries in late January by beating neighbors Iraq 1-0 in Tehran.
However, He was never fully supported by the Iranian Football Federation and finally lost his job.
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Source: ISNA
