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Queiroz could enjoy his finest hour Posted: Tuesday January 15, 2002 3:32 PM
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -- South African coach Carlos Queiroz has experience of working on four different continents but goes to a major championship for the first time when he leads his team into the African Nations Cup finals. In some ways the experience should be a good rehearsal for the World Cup finals in the summer, and if South Africa enjoy luck as well as sustain a rich vein of form, he could even go to Asia as coach of the African champions. The 46-year-old is a former national coach of Portugal and the United Arab Emirates and also worked with clubs in Japan and the United States. He is better known for leading Portugal's under-20 team to success in the world youth championships twice in 1989 and 1991 and spurning a new generation of stars including World Footballer of the Year Luis Figo. Queiroz, who was born in Mozambique when it was still a Portuguese colony, has been in charge of South Africa since September 2000 and has a contract that runs until end of this year's World Cup finals in South Korea and Japan. He coached Portugal from 1991 to 1993 and then Sporting Lisbon before embarking on an international journey that has taken in the New York-New Jersey MetroStars in the U.S. and Japan's Nagoya Grampus Eight. He spent a year in the United Arab Emirates serving as national coach until 1999.
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