Kafashian: We’ll employ new national team head coach

PLDC – The IRI Football Federation head announced that Arthur George is not the country’s national team head coach in his opinion and that he intends to choose a new man for the job.

Having rejected Arthur George as the new IRI national team head coach, Ali Kafashian said that he intended to choose a foreign man for the job. The new head coach will be chosen very soon after consultation with Members of the NT Technical Committee and old hands.

Arthur George, the Portuguese coach was chosen and employed ten days ago by the IRI Football Federation Transfer Committee after two months of negotiations with a short list of foreign coaches. There is now less than a month left to Iran’s first match in the 2010 preliminary world cup series.

The IRI Football Federation head also announced that Abdolrahman Shah Hossieni, the head of the IRI Disciplinary Committee, and Mehdi Mohammadnabi, IRI Football Federation Secretary would hold their present posts.

Translation: Ramin Aidi