Carlos Queiroz’s fire fighting extended to the supplier of Team Melli kit , the German sporting goods manufacturer UHLSport.
In an interview with ISNA , Houshang Moghaddas, the international affairs officer of the football federation said that a problem has arisen between the Portuguese coach of Team Melli and the Iranian representative of UHLSport on various issues including payments and number of matches that Team Melli has used the supplied kits.
Carlos Queiroz conspicuous absence from the presentation of the new Team Melli kit in a ceremony a couple of days back, raised a few eyebrows but after today’s statement from Moghaddas , it is apparent now that Queiroz is not too fond of UHLSport and have differences with the company.
in an extremely strange event , the FFIRI offical revealed some disturbing story. Moghaddas said that Team Melli coach was not satisfied with the quantity of kits being supplied by UHLSport and gave an example of the match in Bangkok where an unnamed Team Melli player gave away his shirt to a fan after the end of the match against Thailand. That acts , which is quite normal in international football across the world , did not please the team officials as they planned to wash/recycle that shirt and use it again!. “The fact that the player gave away his shirt , resulted in that player to remain on the bench for next match against Lebanon , because we did not have a spare shirt for him.” Moghaddas claimed. Naturally , Queiroz was disgusted by the whole affair.
Moghaddas said that Queiroz has not received any cash payment from UHLSport and the same company refused to pay his hotel expenses in Dubai as promised, so he (Queiroz) has all the rights to file a case against the company!
In a separate report , the German Manager of UHLSport said “We are the official kit supplier for Iran’s national team and the contract involves all players and coaches using our brand. If Carlos Queiroz does not want to wear our branded which he is bound to , then he is not allowed to wear another brand. He must wear unbranded kit.”
Mr. martin denied that there is any intention by his company to take Queiroz to court for breach of contract . He also refuted claims that his company supplies inferior quality kits and said “all the top sporting goods manufacturers in the world including Addias and Nike use the same process as we do. We supply the raw martial from Europe and send it to China for final tailoring. All the suppliers do the same.”