What does Iran expect from Queiroz in the World Cup?

According to Fars news agency, Carlos Queiroz, the Portuguese head coach, replaced Dragan Skocic last month to appear as a coach in the World Cup for the fifth time.

Carlos Queiroz’s return to Iran’s bench had many reactions in the world’s sports media. In this regard, the British “elrisala” website addressed the issue of Ki-Rosh’s return to Iran and what Iranians expect from this Portuguese coach in a report.

English media wrote: Portuguese Carlos Queiroz started his work at the head of the technical staff of the Iran national football team and traveled to Austria in order to lead Iran in the preparatory camp, including two friendly matches with Senegal and Uruguay, as part of the final preparations for the 2022 World Cup. To be held.

With his return to Iran 60 days before the start of the World Cup, Keirosh ended the controversy of several weeks about the fate of Croatian Dragan Skocic, who was dismissed by the technical committee of the Iranian Football Federation before the World Cup and returned again.

Mehdi Taj, after his re-election as the head of the Iranian Football Federation, fulfilled the promise he made in his election campaign and chose Keyrosh as the head coach of the national team in the World Cup.

Skocic’s dismissal

The decision to sack Croatian coach Dragan Skocic was made last month after he successfully qualified Iran for the World Cup for the sixth time in the tournament’s history, where he won 15 of the 18 games in charge of Iran. brought and won 2 defeats and a draw.

Iranian players preferred to choose Kay Rosh because they had a good relationship with him. The decision to dismiss Skocic was a source of controversy in Iranian circles. A group considers him worthy of leading the national team in the World Cup, and others considered the results achieved by Queiroz in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and 2018 in Russia as a better option to sit on Iran’s bench.

Veteran coach Heshmat Mohajerani, who led Iran to the World Cup for the first time in 1978, believes that the Croat Skocic has no experience in major tournaments and that his behavior with the players has been shaky, while Keirosh is highly respected among Iranian players. has and has the ability to control the team.

Hamid Derakhshan, a former player of the Iranian national team, believes that the Portuguese head coach with sufficient knowledge of the Iranian player is the best option to lead the Iranian team in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

According to his experience in the 2014 and 2018 World Cup and his two appearances in the Asian Nations Cup, Iranian sports circles talk about the existence of mutual trust between the players and Keirosh.

Considering the decades-long differences between Iran and the United States, the composition of the second group of the 2022 World Cup played an important role in the appointment of the Portuguese coach as the head coach of the Iranian team, which is hoping to defeat its American counterpart in the World Cup. A match that will bring them back together on November 29, 24 years after Iran’s memorable victory over the United States in 1998.

Although Keirosh’s job in the Qatar World Cup is not easy, the Iranians rely on his defensive strategies and how he approaches each game based on the opponent, similar to the performance the team put up bravely against Spain at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. and barely defeated Iran with one goal.

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