Carlos Queiroz was officially named coach of Qatar on Monday. Just as DN was advancing on January 31, the Portuguese coach signed an agreement with the Qatar Football Federation until 2026. Queiroz was invited to take over the Qatar national team at the 2022 World Cup final, a match in which he coached Iran. He succeeds the Spaniard Félix Sánchez.
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After taking part in a World Cup for the first time, the Arabs want to qualify as host country for a World Cup and the next one is in 2026. However, Queiroz’s big mission will be to win this year’s Asian Nations Cup (between June 16 and July 16), proves that Qatar wants to win again, after the unprecedented triumph of 2019.
Queiroz has four qualifiers for Worlds. In fact, he is the only coach in history to do this with more than one roster. Of the seven he has mentored – Portugal (1991 to 1993 and 2008 to 2010), United Arab Emirates (1999), South Africa (2000 to 2001), Iran (2011 to 2019 and 2022), Colombia (2019 to 2020) and Egypt (2021) – just failed to qualify two for a World Championship.
It will be the seventh challenge as manager of the 69-year-old coach, one of 7 Portuguese at the helm of a foreign team: Fernando Santos (Poland), Rui Vitória (Egypt), Pedro Gonçalves (Angola), Paulo Duarte (Togo) , Hélio Sousa (Bahrain), José Peseiro (Nigeria).
Source: DN
