Portuguese football coach Carlos Queiroz: biography and sports career

Carlos Queiroz is a famous football coach. At one time he won with Portugal's youth team at the World Championships. Now he is the head coach of the Iranian team.

Biographical information

Carlos Queiroz was born in March 1953 in the Mozambican city of Nampula. At that time, this African state was a colony of Portugal.

Playing football career Keirush was short-lived. He played only six years (from 1968 to 1974) for the youth and adult team from Nampula "Ferrovario", after which he decided to engage in a coaching career. To this end, he moved to Europe.

Successful start coaching career

After moving to Portugal, Carlos Queiroş worked for about ten years as a coach in children's and youth football teams, he created programs for the development of this sport.

In 1984 he had a unique chance: The 31-year-old specialist was offered to head the youth team of his country. It was he who discovered such future world-class stars for Portugal and the whole world as Rui Costa, Fernando Couto and Luis Figo.

In 1989, coach Carlos Queyrush received the firsta serious achievement at the international level. At the World Championships in Saudi Arabia, his wards first successfully passed the group stage, then in the playoffs defeated the Colombians and Brazilians, and in the finals were stronger than Nigeria. Thus, Portugal's youth team for the first time in its history has become the best in the world championship.

Two years later, a similar primacy was forwinners home. Wards Carlos Queiroz felt here as real masters. First they lost the points without loss of points, then beat Mexico and Australia, and in the finals in the series of post-match penalties snatched victory from the Brazilians.

After this success, Queiroz was invited to the position of coach of the national team of Portugal. Here he stayed for three years, but he could not bring the team to the European Championship in 1992.

In 1994, Portugal went to the finalthe world championship in the US, but there it stopped at the stage of a group tournament. Such a result was perceived as a failure, and Queiroz was dismissed from his post as head coach.

Wanderings in clubs and national teams

The next team for Carlos became a modestthe Portuguese club "Estoril", which he directed for two seasons. In 1996, the specialist accepted the proposal to head the club MLS New York / New Jersey Metrostars. Here he did not stay long and soon found himself back at home.

This time Carlos Queiroz led the Lisbon"Sporting". For two years, held here, he could not adjust the metropolitan team to a serious fight with the grants of Portuguese football - "Porto" and "Benfica". The highest achievement was the second place in the 1996/97 season.

After leaving the "Sporting" Portuguese tooka small break in his work, and in 2010 he was in the club from the J League "Nagoya Grempus Ayt". But the Japanese football Karlushu Keirushu did not like, and soon he went from there.

In 2000, a Portuguese specialist headedthe national team of the UAE, and a year later became the coach of the team from South Africa. Under his leadership, South Africans made their way to the 2002 World Cup, but a few days before the start of the world championship, Queiroz resigned.

Experience in famous teams

After leaving the post of coach of South Africa Carloswas in "Manchester United", where he became an assistant to the legendary Alex Ferguson. For a year spent in an English club, Keirush not only learned a lot, but also established himself as an excellent specialist. Thanks to this in 2003, he fell supersans - Carlosho proposed to lead the Madrid "Real".

However, the Spanish stage of the career was unsuccessful. At the disposal of Keirush was a lot of players of the highest level - Zidane, Raul, Casillas, Beckham, Figo, Roberto Carlos, but even with such a selection of performers, he not only did not win the Example, but also lost in the Cup final modest "Zaragoza". Not surprisingly, after such a disastrous season, Carlos, who was the first Portuguese coach in the history of the "royal" club, was fired.

But the coach did not stay without work. He again went to England, where he continued to work as an assistant with Ferguson. Here he stayed four more seasons.

A new stage of work with national teams

In 2008, Carlos Queiroz headed againthe national team of Portugal. Before him was the task to bring her to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. But after an unsuccessful start (defeat and three draws) he was dismissed from his post.

The next place of work for the Portuguesecoach became the head coach of the Iranian national team. In 2014, he led the team to the final of the World Cup in Brazil, where the team from Asia could not leave the group, which included Argentina, Nigeria and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 2015, at the Asian Cup, the Iranians led by Keirush passed the group stage without losses, not missing a single goal in three games. However, in the quarter-finals, they lost on penalties of the national team of Iraq.

After several attempts to leave the post of head coach, the Portuguese still remained. And not for nothing - for the World Cup in Russia, Iran Karlusha Keirush was one of the first in the world.