Queiroz to quit as Iran coach after WC
Country: Italy
Notable clubs: Torino (1942-1949)
Major club titles won: (1942-43,
1944-45, 1946-47, 1947-48, 1948-49)
Considered the world’s best club then, Grande Torino won five Serie A titles in the 40s. The team was led by Valentino Mazzola, who along with most of his squad died in the Superga air disaster in 1949. Italy, who would have been led by Mazzola, made a group stage exit from the 1950 World Cup. Country: Argentina, Spain
Notable clubs: Real Madrid (1953-1964) Major club titles won:
(1955-56, 1956-57, 1957-58, 1958-59, 1959-60),
(1953-54, 1954-55, 1956-57, 1957-58, 1960-61, 1961-62, 1962-63, 1963-64)
The Argentina-born forward was denied a chance to play in the 1950 and 1954 editions after his country withdrew from the
Cup. Di Stefano became a Spanish citizen in 1956, but Spain failed to qualify for 1958. He helped Spain make the cut for 1962, but an injury forced him out. HONG KONG: Carlos Queiroz will not remain at the helm of the Iran national team after the conclusion of the country’s involvement in the World Cup finals in Russia, the former Real Madrid coach told Reuters on Thursday. Queiroz, who has been in charge of Team Melli since April 2011, had been offered an extension to his contract by the Iranian Football Federation until January’s Asian Cup finals in the United Arab Emirates.
But the 65-year-old has decided to call time on his sevenyear stint with the Iranians after the World Cup, where they have been drawn to take on Morocco, Spain and Portugal in Group B.
“It’s almost one year since we qualified for the World Cup and it’s true that they gave me an offer to go for six months to the Asian Cup in the Emirates, but it didn’t meet my expectations,” Queiroz said by telephone from his team’s training camp in Turkey.
“After all these years, for the Iranian federation to only extend the contract for six months is a decision that shows no appreciation or recognition for what I’ve done. It’s an offer that isn’t acceptable from my point of view.
“The negotiations are closed, they are behind me.
“Before we came here to Istanbul the federation was supposed to review the position and they did not come back to me, so from now on it’s time to move forward.”
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