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Coordinates: 21°47′56″S 50°14′25″W / 21.79889°S 50.24028°W / -21.79889; -50.24028 Queiroz is a municipality/county in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2004 was 2,292 and the area is 237.42 km². The elevation is 431 m.
Carlos Manuel Brito Leal Queiroz ComIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkaɾluʃ kɐjˈɾɔʃ]; born 1 March 1953) is a Portuguese football manager. He is currently the manager of the Iran national football team. A former manager of Real Madrid, he has also been the manager of the Portugal national football team twice and been Alex Ferguson's assistant manager at English club Manchester United twice as well.
Queiroz has won several awards as a coach in junior levels, and he has been fairly successful at senior and club levels, mainly as Alex Ferguson's assistant manager. He is credited with discovering the Portuguese "Golden Generation" in the early 1990s, which most prominently include Luís Figo and Rui Costa, who were both selected for the FIFA 100 celebrations. In 1998, he authored the Q-Report, which detailed plans to enhance football player development in the United States.
Born in Nampula, in the Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique (now Mozambique), to Portuguese parents, Queiroz had a short professional career as a football player, playing in Mozambique before turning to management. He moved to Portugal following Portugal's Carnation Revolution on 25 April 1974, and Mozambique's declaration of independence in 1975, and built up a reputation for working with youth players. After being awarded a degree in physical education by the Technical University of Lisbon, he coached the Portuguese under-20 side to two Football World Youth Championship wins, in the 1989 and 1991 tournaments. As head coach of the Portuguese under-20 youth team, Queiroz was credited with discovering the "Golden Generation" of Portuguese football, including Luís Figo, Rui Costa, Fernando Couto, João Pinto, Jorge Costa and Vítor Baía, who went on to become the six most-capped players ever for the senior Portugal national football team.