Iranian Coaches among AFC Asian Cup Greatest Coaches


Iranian Coaches among AFC Asian Cup Greatest Coaches

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian coaches Mohammad Ranjbar and Heshmat Mohajerani have been chosen among top three greatest coaches at the AFC Asian Cup.

Saudi Arabia's Khalil Al Zayani was voted as the greatest coach in the 10-man list.

Al Zayani, who guided Saudi Arabia to the 1984 championship - the first of three AFC Asian Cup titles the West Asian nation has won - collected 77 percent of the votes on a poll on the-AFC.com.

Mohajerani and Ranjbar came second and third, respectively in the poll.

The list also included Carlos Alberto Parreira of Brazil (winner in 1980 and 1988), Ange Postecoglou of Australia (winner in 2015), Zico of Brazil (winner in 2004), Philippe Troussier of France (winner in 2000), Jorvan Vieira of Brazil (winner in 2007), Alberto Zaccheroni of Italy (winner in 2011) and Felix Sanchez of Spain (winner in 2019).

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