Branko: Iran should have advanced, but they 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 absence of a coach prevented them from achieving this success.
In his assessment of the Asian teams, he made a heavy jab at Carlos Queiroz, who couldn’t lead the Iranian national team to the knockout stage of the World Cup.
Branko made a heavy jab at Carlos Queiroz, the head coach of the Iranian national team, regarding the performance of other Asian teams. These two coaches had many media confrontations during their time in Iran, with Branko at Persepolis and Queiroz with the national team. Branko has once again criticized Queiroz, this time as the head coach of another team.
Branko said many people do not have a proper understanding of Japan, which is a very high-quality national team with many players in European leagues. They lost to Croatia in penalties and were close to the quarterfinals. Australia and South Korea are also there, as well as Iran, which with the team they had, should have advanced from the group stage. They had a team, but unfortunately, they didn’t have a coach.