In an interview with the sports reporter of Tasnim news agency, Homayoun Shahrokhi said about Carlos Queiroz’s farewell to the Iranian national team and his participation in the Qatar national team, while the football federation refused to announce the termination of cooperation with this coach. Football is chaotic, the same things happen. The federation should have announced the termination of cooperation with Queiroz after the World Cup, while appreciating the head coach of the national team. You saw that all the teams determined their bench assignments after the completion of these matches.
He continued: The managers of the football federation are never far from playing politics, and I think they planned to wait until the last moment for Kiirosh’s decision, and from this side, they were informally talking about choosing the Iranian option. A manager’s performance is shown by statistics and achievements, and for example you see a manager like Jurgen Klopp being criticized when he doesn’t get results at Liverpool.
The former head of our country’s national football team also stated: the federation did not react to Queiroz’s decisions in many cases. We took four goalkeepers to the World Cup and we went to this cup with one less player. Interestingly, this coach went to Saad Abad Palace after the national team returned to Iran! Really, why didn’t Keirosh say goodbye to the national team when he left Iran?! These incidents are disrespectful to Iranian people and football.
The former coach of the national team said that he should be honest with the people and pointed out that choosing the head coach of the national team in all disciplines is a specialized task and specialized tasks require specialized people. This work should be entrusted to the technical committee, but we either don’t have a technical committee, or if we have one, we don’t hand over its members, and you saw what happened to this committee before the World Cup. Friends gather in the board of directors and their interests are only one thing; Being in the Federation. I know only two or three of them. The members of the board usually say whatever the chairman says, and the result is that the likes of Queiroz are abusing our football.
At the end of his words, Shahrokhi said: If we choose the head coach of the national team now, whether he is Iranian or foreign, he will want to say later either that I didn’t have time or that we didn’t have a friendly game and we couldn’t get to know the team and the players. The head coach of the national team should have been chosen after the World Cup, but the friends are still busy with other things and the head coach of the Omid team has not been chosen. In the end, it hurts the hearts of the people and football fans.