Carlos Queiroz Dismisses Reports Iran Will Play Spain, Russia

Published: December 15, 2013

Iran manager Carlos Queiroz has reacted to reports in the media that the National Team will play exhibition matches against Spain and Russia as part of their build up for Brazil 2014.

“I don’t know where these rumors come from but don’t care about that. This is absolutely ridiculous.

“At the moment, we just have to prepare ourselves for the World Cup,” Queiroz was quoted as saying by persianfootball.com.

Iran are in Group F of the World Cup which also contains Argentina, Nigeria and Bosnia Herzegovina.

The Asians will will play Nigeria on June 16 at the Arena da Baixada in Curitiba.