Carlos Queiroz has reversed his decision to quit Iran and decided to stay in his job according to Ali Kaffashian. The head of FFIRI was speaking to the press on Saturday evening after the meeting with Queiroz and a representative of the Ministry of Youth and Sports discussing the future of the Portuguese coach in the aftermath of his decision to leave his job as head coach of Team Melli.

Queiroz who has earlier on accused the Iranians of holding him as a hostage because the FFIRI did not accept his resignation , will be continuing until the World Cup 2018.  There is no indications that any supposed improvements and pre-conditions of Queiroz will be implemented any time soon, however , The ministry’s  representative has assured Queiroz of their full support and as such has eased Team Melli head coach’s worries about the intention to get rid of him as he feared.

Team Melli will be starting the World Cup 2018 qualification campaign on 16th June with a match against Turkmenistan in Group D of the Asian Zone qualifiers. Oman , India and Guam are the other 3 teams in the group.