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Quiroz: In Game Vs. Bosnia We Will Play As We Did Vs. Argentina

Sao Paulo, June 24, IRNA – In our match versus Bosnia-Herzegovina we will play defensive, as we did versus Argentina, waiting for chances for counter-attacks, Iranian national football team’s Head Coach Carlos Quiroz said here Monday. “It will be a tough game versus BH and the fact that our rival has been deleted makes our job even tougher, as they will be fighting for achieving at least one win in the 2014 Brazil World Cup,” said the team’s Portuguese head coach. He added that when Bosnia-Herzegovina became a member of the International Football Federation (FIFA) after becoming an independent country they played their first official football match played versus the FIFA Stars Team, and I was that team’s coach at the time. Quiroz said that the Iran-Bosnia match will be in some ways different from our previous two games, although “in those two games, too, our objective was winning the games and I am quite pleased with my team’s performance.” On the combination of the Iranian national football team, he said that there are chances that he would make some changes. “After the annoying defeat during the ending seconds of the match versus Argentina the Iranian players felt a bit oppressed and recovering their good spirit is a tough job,” he said. Quiroz said that the efforts of the team’s technical staffs and he himself were focused on providing ideal psychological conditions for them, arguing, “We wish to play a game that will be from all aspects of the job improved compared with our former games.” “We do not wish to celebrate for the good games we’ve played, as all we need now is to have a good feeling to enable us to pursue our mission optimally,” he added. “We wish to alter the players’ mentality and prepare them for the sensitive match versus Bosnia so that they will play that match with a doubly boosted spirit,” said Quiroz. Defeat in game versus Bosnia will humiliate the people, said the reporter. “We do not have such an approach; we just want to go to the field and to perform well. If you think that facing Bosnia will be easier than the games played versus Nigeria and Bosnia you are mistaken,” he said. Winning the game versus Bosnia will take us to the next phase of the 20th World Cup games, he said, emphasizing that it will be a tough match. “We should keep one point in mind and that is although we are glad with our good performance thus far, we need to pursue our tasks painstakingly and precisely in this match now,” he emphasized. On the people’s demand that he should stay and extend his contract with the Iranian Football Federation, Quiroz said, “I must initially say that hearing such news and the president’s request to stay with the team is a great pride for me.” “From the beginning, my objective was presence in the World Cup and performing good games to delight the people and to create pride for Iran and the Iranians,” he said, adding, “But now we have a game to play before us, and my full concentration as well as my team’s attention is focused on that match,” he said. “Throughout the past 11 months and ever since winning the match versus South Korea I have in different ways expressed my demands for staying in Iran,” he said. “I even severed my talks with the other teams so that I will not be ashamed before the Iranians,” said Quiroz. “Presently our full concentration is focused on the Wednesday match; be sure that upon return to Iran we will elaborate on this point in full details. At the time being we need the people’s support and their prayers more than ever before,” he said. “When we get back to Tehran and before saying good bye, I will have time to express my feelings and I will precisely say what has happened, but now it is time to keep our minds positive,” said Quiroz. On the Iranian Football Federation’s arguments on a probable compromise between the Nigerian and the Argentinean teams, he said, “I am not pro-conspiracy theories, but I can say one thing for sure: if FIFA will not give the Serbian referee his sack and send him back home we will realize that there is something fishy going on here.” “I know that mistakes occur in football, but when a referee does not see an obvious fault from a three meter distance it is highly astonishing for me,” he said referring to the obvious penalty fault that the Serbian referred ignored in favor of Argentina and to the loss of the praiseworthy Iranian side. “I also saw the social website of that referee and the type of his replies was surprising for me. I believe the Iranian Football Federation must pursue the matter,” he said. Quiroz concluded the interview arguing, “I am a coach and will be fined if I will say more about the matter, but someone must ask this referee to justify his odd performance.” Bribing the referees in some international games when one side is an Arab oil rich country, or in the games among some third world countries’ sports clubs, is an ugly familiar phenomenon in football in dire need of remedy and consideration. But what happened during the Iran-Argentina match and the extremely weak, biased judgments of the referee throughout the game, whose peak was ignoring the obvious penalty in favor of Argentina, seems to be a turning point in the history of the World Cup games under the supreme supervision of FIFA./end

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