Carlos Queiroz is seeking to rebuild the boldness of Qatar’s gamers after the frustration of final 12 months’s World Cup in an try and construct a “dynasty” able to reworking the Gulf state into a number one energy within the international sport.
After chopping ties with Iran, the previous Real Madrid coach was appointed to interchange Spaniard Felix Sanchez, who departed within the wake of Qatar’s limp group-stage exit at its dwelling World Cup.
The intense preparations the gamers have been subjected to within the run-up to the World Cup had clearly taken its toll and Queiroz stated he would attempt to reinvigorate them earlier than they defend their Asian Cup title, once more at dwelling, early subsequent 12 months.
“We have a group of players that have been playing in the national team and loaded with camps and games, camps and games,” the 70-year-old Portuguese coach instructed Reuters over the telephone.
“They’re mentally exhausted, a lot of those players, which is the worst fatigue in football, when you get bored and you have nothing inside you.
“Mental fatigue is something that you can’t deal with unless you give the players some mental rest in order to refresh.”
Qatar had by no means certified for the World Cup previous to its look final November as host, and successive losses to Ecuador, Senegal, and the Netherlands noticed it fall on the first hurdle.
The outcomes have been the worst by a number nation at a World Cup and have been in stark distinction to the excessive hopes triggered by Qatar’s spectacular Asian Cup triumph in 2019.
Queiroz has already began to refresh the squad through the present worldwide window, excluding many who featured on the World Cup in favour of youth for its visitor look within the subsequent month’s Gold Cup within the United States.
“We need to reset also,” Queiroz added. “We need to start to prepare the present and the future. It’s impossible to sustain success or reach the goals and dreams of the future if you are going only with 13 or 14 players. That doesn’t exist.”
The preliminary aim is a profitable defence of the Asian Cup in January however Queiroz additionally has extra bold longer-term targets.
“It’s an excellent opportunity to move forward and bring in a new generation,” he stated.
“Because what is my main goal? It is to help the Qatar Football Association understand that it is not only to prepare for a new generation, but this is also about preparing a dynasty of players and a culture to play for the national team.
“It is one way to create platforms, new solutions, new highways to bring a dynasty of players, one team after another to be ready to compete in the Asian Cup in January, to compete at the World Cup in 2026, in 2030, in 2034 and so on.
“I’m only concerned with educating some new players in the winning process, to educate them in what I call the art of winning.
“It’s one thing to win, but it’s another to win consistently, be solid, and win repeatedly until you are able to be a champion.”
