Carlos Queiroz

Carlos Manuel Brito Leal Queiroz ( born March 1, 1953 in Nampula, Mozambique ) is a Mozambican - Portuguese football coach. He won several awards as a youth coach and is regarded as the discoverer of the Portuguese "Golden Generation" of the 1990s, including players such as Luís Figo and Rui Costa belong. He led the Portuguese U-20 national football team in 1989 and 1991 to two world titles.

Career

With Queiroz, the South African national football team qualified for the World Cup 2002. Queiroz resigned before the tournament, due to disagreements with the former sporting director Jomo Sono. He went to Manchester United as an assistant coach Sir Alex Ferguson and won in the 2002/03 season the English title. The success led to interest from Real Madrid, which replaced their coach Vicente del Bosque with Queiroz beginning of the 2003 season. Despite everything, Queiroz had no success with the " Royal ", after 10 months he returned in July 2004 back to Manchester United, where he had a three - year contract as an assistant coach. In July 2008 he became the successor of the Brazilian Luiz Felipe Scolari, who took over as coach for the English giants Chelsea FC, as coach of the Portuguese national team back to Portugal. After a successful period under Scolari Queiroz led the national team only with difficulty to the 2010 World Cup, and also was unable to convince his team in the finals. Due to abuse by officials during doping tests before the World Cup Queiroz was initially blocked by the anti -doping agency for six months. The Portuguese Football Federation FPF drew therefrom consequences and dismissed the coach 9 September 2010 from his duties. On April 4, he signed a three and a half year contract as coach of Iran. After the historic defeat on September 11, 2012 compared to Lebanon during the World Cup qualifier in Beirut he ran into criticism. He countered and threw the AFC right not to work according to international standards. Despite the Niederlagsserie Iran could score 1-0 at home in the last game against South Korea.

Title

  • U- 20 World Cup World Champion: 1989, 1991
  • 3rd place at the World Championships
  • European vice-champion: 1988, 1990
  • European Championship: 1989
  • European runners-up: 1988
  • Portuguese Cup: 1995
  • Portuguese Super Cup: 1995
  • Japanese Super Cup: 1996
  • Spanish Supercup winner: 2003
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