(CNN) - former Portugal and Real Madrid coach Carlos Queiroz was handed the challenge of the Iran revived as an Asian soccer superpower and clinching qualification for the 2014 World Cup to the Brazil.
The 58 year-old known for his time at Manchester United where he helped the English club to win the Champions League European and three national titles as assistant coach, arrived in Tehran Monday to sign a three year contract.
It is the non-Iranian first to be appointed since Branko Ivankovic end Croatia of its second passage after the 2006 World Cup.
Queiroz had agreed to take the job in February but then changed opinion for family reasons, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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I'm here in Iran to help the team to go to the 2014 World Cup. I hope, with the help of everyone, that we can make it-Carlos Queiroz
It is without a job since September, when it was ransacked by Portugal after a row with representatives of anti-doping before the 2010 World Cup. He was banned for six months, but thereafter, the Court of arbitration for Sport was reversed last month despite the fact that his behaviour was unacceptable.
Queiroz was criticized by the Portuguese media after the national team needed to go to a game to qualify for the World Cup in South Africa, where his side lost in the second round to their neighbours as potential champions Spain.
It takes a Iran team who lost in the quarter final of the Asian Cup in January in the national framework American original Iran Afshin Ghotbi, which, before the tournament, accepted an agreement to join Japanese club S Pulse later.
The Iranians, called "Team Melli" - begin their campaign to qualify for the event against the Maldives in July 2014, having failed to win a place among the top 32 nations in South Africa.
"I'm here in Iran to help the team to go to the 2014 World Cup." It is my most important goal and I hope, with the help of everyone, that we can make it, "Queiroz said after the signing of its direct contract to State television, according to ISNA."
"I know the expectations." One thing I can tell you, is that everyone thinks that they can achieve the four and win the World Cup. But let's be realistic. How many have won the World Cup? We need to plan the medium and long term. »
Queiroz will earn a salary of approximately 2 million dollars a year, according to the channel press TV English language of the Web site of the Iran, he seeks to restore the fate of a nation that has won the Asian Cup three times in a row from 1968 and qualified for the cup of the world for the third time in 2006.
"You need to bring together the talents, organisation and order.". Better put you together, the more chance of success, "he says.
"Everything is open and I need the support of Iranian coaches." Coaching is about adaptation. If you can't adapt, you cannot work. After working in different places, I have good chances to adapt in Iran. I have worked with players from different continents. "I dream of working on the Moon".
Queiroz first became known as coach of the youth teams of the Portugal where he helped to discover future stars such as Luis Figo and Rui Costa, but his first period in charge of the upper ends in failure after failing to qualify for the Euro ' 92 and the 1994 World Cup.
After a passage without success as coach of Sporting of Lisbon, he took jobs in the United States, the Japan and the United Arab Emirates United prior to be hired by South Africa, but left after having led the team to the final of the 2002 World Cup.
It has been taken by United manager Alex Ferguson won the title of English Premier League in his first season at Old Trafford, before becoming the main man Spanish giant Real Madrid...
Queiroz lasted only one season of his contract for two years after failing to win a major trophy with a squad featuring of Figo, Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo and David Beckham - United States in 2003 that installs also.
He returned to Old Trafford to join Ferguson in 2004, where the new success given him has given the task of Portugal again in 2008 on a four year contract.