Article source:
Bild.de, Germany
Payvand.com
- According to German tabloid Bild.de, Erich Rutemoller, the celebrated German coach,
has been appointed as interim coach of the Iranian national team.
Rutemoller replaces Ali Daei who was sacked after
Iran's humiliating 1-2 loss in the World Cup qualifier against Saudi Arabia on
Saturday in Tehran. Daei was dismissed by the Iranian Football Federation.
Iran has done very poorly during the World Cup
qualifying games and is in the forth place in Group B with 6 points. Iran has
had one win, three draws and a loss so far.
Erich Rutemoller,
was appointed as an assistant coach to Ali Daei in Iran's national soccer team
in December 2009. The
former FC Koln and Hansa Rostock signed a one-year deal with the Iranian
Football Federation.
In an interview with BILD.de, Rutemoller
said that everything went very quickly here. He said that after the loss on
Saturday against Saudi Arabia and when Ali Daei was released, he was was asked
to do the job of the coach and that made sense too.
Rutemoller will be leading Iran for the first time during a friendly match
against Senegal in Tehran on Wednesday.
BILD.de: How goes it with you in Iran
then?
Rutemoller : "I do not know today how long I will stay here."
BILD.de: Specifically, please?
Rutemoller: "Ali Daei has brought me. Now he is no longer here. I can
not yet say when my commitment ends. One reason is that I do not speak the
language."
At present, Saudi Arabia is third in the five-team
Group B with seven points from five games. North Korea leads the group with 10
points, followed by South Korea with eight after four games.
Iran is fourth with 6 points while the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is at the
bottom of the group with just one point resulting from a draw against Iran's
National Soccer Team in the UAE.
Iran, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and North Korea have all played five games so far.
Each team will altogether play eight games. The top two teams in
Asian Groups A and B qualify directly to next year's World Cup in South Africa,
while the third-place teams in the two groups to hold a playoff against each
other for a spot in an intercontinental qualifier against the champion of
Oceania seemed to be New Zealand.
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