Shortly after his arrival in Tehran, Carlos Queiroz finally signed the contract with Ali Kaffashian making him the head coach for Team Melli for a period of 4 years.

On this occasion, Ali Kaffashian was quite happy to respond to the reporter’s question. He reiterated his administration position and strategy that the extension of the contract with Queiroz was carried out with the sole purpose of qualifying to the World Cup 2018 in Russia as top priority.

Although the contract extension is for 4 years it is conditional to Queiroz’a performance.> The continuation of Querioz work with Team Melli is dependent on the results of the upcoming AFC Asian Cup 2015.

“This contract is in 3 stages, first the Asian Cup. We shall analyze the results before deciding to continue with Queiroz or not. Second, the qualification to the FIFA World Cup 2018 and then the final part is the participation in the World Cup finals” Kaffashian explained.  

There was no mention of any specific targets for the AFC Asian Cup 2015 , although Kaffashian has been on record saying that the AFC Asian Cup is not a main target or priority for FFIRI, That statement generated strong criticism by many , which forced Kaffashian to amend his statement and explain that his words were taken out of context!.

Kaffashian stated that Queiroz will help the u-23 team and other age group teams , though  he failed to mention if such function is an obligatory  part of his contract or done on voluntary basis whenever Queiroz feels like.

Commenting on the heavy defeat by the U23 team in the Asian Game against Vietnam, Kaffashian said “Every team in Asia is strong nowadays and we cannot ignore that fact! “