World Soccer - UK (2019-12)

“Apart from Diego Godin, these players haven’t

won anything and lack experience. We got

players from Sassuolo and Cagliari”

EUROPE

LUIS ENRIQUE was re-appointed

coach of Spain, five months after

stepping down from the role after

his nine-year-old daughter, Xana,

was seriously ill with bone cancer

and subsequently died in August.

JOSE MOURINHO signed a deal to

manage Tottenham Hotspur until the end

of the 2022-23 season, succeeding

Mauricio Pochettino.

DICK ADVOCAAT replaced Jaap Stam

as Feyenoord coach with the side 12th in

the Eredivisie. It is the 72-year-old’s 24th

managerial post and 17th in club football.

Bottom of La Liga, Leganes hired

Mexican JAVIER AGUIRRE – whose last

job was with Egypt’s national side – to

replace Mauricio Pellegrino. Segunda

Division side Almeria appointed former

Real Madrid midfielder GUTI as coach.

Former Arsenal manager ARSENE WENGER was

named FIFA’s new chief of global football development.

In a statement, FIFA said Wenger will be responsible for

“overseeing and driving the growth and development of

the sport for both men and women around the world”.

It added that Wenger will also be the “leading authority

on technical matters”.

Wenger will join FIFA’s football and technical advisory

panels which are involved in the regular reviews by the

International Football Association Board. He will also chair

the governing body’s Technical Study Group, which has

conducted the technical analysis of FIFA tournaments

since 1966.

The 70-year-old Frenchman, who left Arsenal in 2018,

had been linked with the vacant coach’s job at Bayern

Munich, but Bayern insisted he had not been considered.

Internazionale coach Antonio Conte laments his club’s transfer

strategy after defeat to Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League

Scorer of the winning penalty for Italy

in the 2006 World Cup Final shoot-out,

FABIO GROSSO replaced Eugenio Corini

as coach of Brescia.

ACHIM BEIERLORZER replaced

Sandro Schwarz as coach of Mainz nine

days after being fired by Cologne, who

brought in MARKUS GISDOL.

Championship side Stoke City named

MICHAEL O’NEILL as manager but he

will remain in charge of Northern Ireland

for the Euro play-offs in March.

Hibernian replaced manager Paul

Heckingbottom with ex-Sunderland boss

JACK ROSS after failing to win a Scottish

Premiership game since the opening day

of the season.

CONCACAF

Sacked by Monaco in January, the

former France striker THIERRY HENRY

was named as coach of MLS side

Montreal Impact.

AFRICA

Tunisian coach FAOUZI BENZARTI

took charge of Libya for a second time.

He was replaced at Etoile du Sahel by

Spaniard JUAN CARLOS GARRIDO.

After two years as Mali’s caretaker

coach, MOHAMED MAGASSOUBA was

finally handed a permanent contract.

Frenchman SEBASTIEN MIGNE was

appointed coach of Equatorial Guinea.

Guinean champions Horoya replaced

Franco-Portuguese coach Didier Gomes

da Rosa with Senegal’s LAMINE NDIAYE,

who led DR Congo’s TP Mazembe to the

African Champions League title in 2010.

JAMAL SELLAMI replaced Patrice

Carteron as coach of Moroccan club Raja.

Wenger takes FIFA role

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

THE WORLD THIS MONTH

Full time...

Mohamed

Magassouba

Brescia boss...Fabio Grosso

Veteran...Dick Advocaat

Impact...

Thierry Henry

New role...

Arsene Wenger