TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran Football Federation will lodge an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) regarding former national team head coach Marc Wilmots financial case, the federation’s legal team said.
On Monday, FIFA’s Players’ Status Committee (PSC) ruled that the Iranian federation should pay €6.2 million in compensation to the Belgian who parted ways with Iran last December.
The international football governing body gave the Iranian federation 30 days to pay the sum to its ex-manager.
Meanwhile, Mohammad-Mehdi Nabi, the secretary-general of the federation, said a task force, comprising legal experts, is established in an effort to overturn the FIFA’s verdict in CAS.
Wilmots, 51, had only been in charge of Iran’s national team for six months, replacing Portuguese Carlos Queiroz in June 2019.
Iran began its campaign at the 2022 World Cup Asian qualifiers under the Belgian with easy victories over Hong Kong (2-0) and Cambodia (14-0).
However, a couple of below-par performances saw Iran suffer back-to-back defeats at the hands of Bahrain (1-0) and Iraq (2-1), leaving the Asian powerhouse in third place of Group C – trailing Iraq and Bahrain by five and three points respectively, albeit with a game in hand – before the qualifiers were halted due to the coronavirus pandemic.
- source : Iran Daily, Irannews
