Branko: Iran should have advanced, but it didn’t have a coach
Branko Ivanković, the former head coach of the national team and Persepolis, says Iran should have advanced to the knockout stage in the Qatar World Cup, but the lack of a coach prevented this success.
In his assessment of Asian teams, he made a heavy jab at Carlos Queiroz, who failed to advance with the Iranian national team to the World Cup knockout stage.
Branko, in evaluating the performance of other Asian teams, made a heavy jab at Carlos Queiroz, the head coach of the Iranian national team. These two coaches had numerous media conflicts during their time in Iran, with Branko at Persepolis and Queiroz with the national team. Branko has now once again criticized Queiroz, this time as the coach of another team.
Branko said many people do not have a proper understanding of Japan, which is a very high-quality national team and has many players in European leagues. They lost to Croatia in a penalty shootout and were close to the quarter-finals. Australia and South Korea are also there, as well as Iran, which with the team it had, should have advanced from the group stage. They had a team, but unfortunately, they did not have a coach.