Fabio Capello Iran
Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Fabio Capello was slated to become the captain for the Iranian National Football Team in 2008.
Or was he?
No, actually, though a lot of people seemed to think he was. A mistake on the Fifa website in 2007 had Capello’s name placed on the roster for the Iran team as the new coach.
Or was he?
Another story had it that an Iranian news agency used April Fools’ as a chance to get back at the lazier journalists out there, and that they falsified information about Capello going to Iran over the Christmas holidays.
So which story is it? The internet in general doesn’t seem to know. At any rate, Capello quickly quashed the rumors, saying he’d spent the holidays with his mother and that he had no plans to coach Iran’s football team.
Sorry to all of you fans out there who’d hoped it was true. Capello coaching Iran was never going to happen.