The former coach of the Spanish national football team, Javier Clemente, will not take up his position as coach of Iran's national team, after disagreements on the clause of his contract that would have required him to live in Iran.
Clemente said he was prepared to travel to Tehran to coach the team but didn't want to live there. He said he would arrive a week or two before he was due to train the national team.
"We do not want a coach that will train our team by remote control," said the president of the Iranian football federation, Ali Kafashian.
"I do not intend to change my lifestyle," replied Clemente from Madrid.
Instead there was speculation that football legend, Diego Armando Maradona, would be considered as an alternative coach for the national team.
In the past, Maradona has shown his admiration for Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and said that he would like to meet him.
Last December Maradona handed Iranian officials an autographed football shirt.
"With all my love for the Iranians," was the dedication that Maradona wrote on the T-shirt...
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