Carlos Queiroz has been in the news on daily basis recently.
You will not be far of track thinking that the Carlos Queiroz, the current Team Melli coach is a highly emotional character. Those emotions, mixed with passion for his job and low tolerance levels sometimes puts him in trouble while at times , his emotions gets the better of him to a degree he forgets the very essence of the professionalism that he keeps referring to as the basis of his job.
Khabar Varzeshi Intervew
In the interview with Khabar varzeshi, there was a classic example of some expressive and strong responses in which a highly emotional Queiroz threatened to resign his job because he does not like what some people accuse him of. Yet, in the same interview, Quiroz mentions that a professional coach is supposed to accept hardship and criticism!
No doubt, Queiroz, a passionate and highly dedicated person, has lots of grievances about the currents fiasco of Iranian football. Many fans & the Media personnel inside and outside of Iran , sympathize with his plight, us included. However, expecting full adherence to his plans and compliance to his demands, asking for unequivocal support from everyone while curtailing media criticism is something that is impossible to achieve in any environment, professional or otherwise.
Queiroz has worked in England, where the media reserves the sharpest criticism for coaches and the fans are one of the most demanding and least tolerant in Europe. The Iranians are not far off any other sets of fans either. Granted, that there are lots of adversity, plenty of ridicule acts, acute shortage of skilled football management and some chaotic organization in Iran. There is also poor discipline, several cultural and religious issues that could be detrimental to the natural progress of football. However, many foreign coaches have operated in this same environment and succeeded. To name a few, there is one Julio Velasco who has taken Iran to new heights in the sport of volleyball and won the nation’s first Asian championship title. Only a few weeks ago , Mehmed Becirovic managed to lead Iran to win Asian basketball Championship title with an immaculate performance. Those two sports get a fraction of the financial support spent on football and much less attention from the fans and the media. The point is, despite the hardship, this is a championship breeding nation with its own twists and turns.
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We have not heard what Queiroz was insinuating about Taj and Rahimi , but we also wouldn’t know what have gone in private between all the parties. Publicly, however, the club chairmen and coaches are trying to preserve and protect their clubs interest as vehemently as Queiroz does for his own team.
Why shouldn’t the club try to keep their players as much as they can? After all, it is these clubs that pays them their wages, not Team Melli or the Football Federation. It is the clubs who have the burden of medical care if they get injured during a Team Melli game. It is the clubs who lose the most when a player is injured. So again, like everywhere else in the world, club must have a say in the grand schemes of the national team. Of course, in Europe it is hardly organized and systematic, with plans for matches, competitions and training camps , planned well ahead of time and strictly adhered to, while in Iran such planning is a wishful thinking.
In any case, a solution must be reached between the national team and the league commission. Both parties must accept that their ideas and plans might not please the other, but there must be a compromise. Failure to do so is detrimental to Team Melli and Iran’s football. Regardless to the outcome, club coaches’ demands cannot be totally ignored because Team Melli made it to the World Cup.
The other point about Queiroz that we take issue with is his claims of personal battles. The question that needs to be asked is, why does Queiroz finds it necessary to respond to every Tom, Dick and Harry? As a professional football coach, he will do things his own way and does not need to explain every little thing for the rest of the world. The environment in Iran is not much different than the rest of the world. There will always be the media and the critics among the fans and the coaches; this comes as part and parcel of the job. Building a shield around a coach to protect him from critics and those who do not admire his job, is something that is unreasonable and unrealistic.
An interesting turn of events when Queiroz was coaching South Africa in 2002. Will that story repeat in Iran ?
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2002-03-12 12:19
Johannesburg – South African soccer coach Carlos Queiroz has resigned, the SA Football Association announced at a press conference in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
Queiroz was meetings with South African Football Association (Safa) officials on Tuesday to discuss his future after he threatened to quit in a meeting on Monday.
Queiroz had threatened to quit on Monday in another meeting, officials added, but the matter was being negotiated with Safa president Molefi Oliphant.
The Portuguese coach is unhappy over his new working relationship with the team’s technical director Jomo Sono, who was appointed to work with Queiroz after the disappointing performance by South Africa at the African Nations Cup finals in Mali earlier this year.
South Africa were eliminated in the quarter-finals by the host country, promoting widespread
speculation over the future of Queiroz on the eve of the World Cup finals in South Korea and Japan.
It was several weeks before Safa confirmed Queiroz would continue in his post at the World Cup, where South Africa will play in group B against Paraguay, Slovenia and Spain.
But Safa also appointed Sono, who owns a club in the South African premier league and was a former coach of the national team, to work with Queiroz.
Safa did not clarify that exact roles of the two men and officials confirmed that the two have argued in recent weeks over team selection and the appointment of coaching staff for the World Cup.
Queiroz was also upset over Sono’s failure to turn up for a scheduled meeting last week, South African newspapers reported on Tuesday.
Queiroz, who has been in charge of South Africa since September 2000, has already told reporters he would be leaving the post after his contract expires at the end of the World Cup finals in June.
Reuters
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