World Soccer - UK (2020-04)

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

EUROPE

Barcelona signed striker MARTIN

BRAITHWAITE from Leganes for €18 m

under a rule in La Liga that allows clubs

to make new signings if a player is out

injured for more than five months.

WALTER ZENGA replaced Rolando

Maran as coach of Serie A side Cagliari.

Roma paid €11m to make Barcelona

winger CARLES PEREZ’s loan move

permanent, while also confirming the

signing of Atalanta’s GIANLUCA

MANCINI and JORDAN VERETOUT

from Fiorentina.

Borussia Dortmund activated a

purchase option to sign EMRE CAN

from Juventus for €25m.

Bundesliga strugglers Augsburg

appointed HEIKO HERRLICH to

replace Martin Schmidt.

Ajax signed ANTONY from Sao Paulo

for €15.5m, with the Brazilian winger

joining the Dutch club in July.

Manchester City signed 17-year-old

right-back YAN COUTO from Coritiba

for an initial €6m plus a further €6m

in instalments, which is a record deal

for the Brazilian club.

Former Sevilla and Athletic Bilbao

boss JOAQUIN CAPARROS was

appointed coach of Armenia.

Liverpool’s under-23s coach NEIL

CRITCHLEY, who took charge of games

against Aston Villa and Shrewsbury Town

this season, was appointed manager of

third-tier side Blackpool.

Former Croatia defender ZVONIMIR

SOLDO was appointed head coach of

Austrian Bundesliga side Admira Wacker,

having most recently worked as right-

hand man to Felix Magath in China with

Shandong Luneng.

Former Denmark international JON

DAHL TOMASSON took charge of

Sweden’s Malmo.

SOUTH AMERICA

JORGE SAMPAOLI, who led

Argentina at the 2018 World Cup,

was named coach of Brazil’s Atletico

Mineiro, replacing Rafael Dudamel

who was sacked after just two months

in charge.

CONCACAF

Ex-Valencia forward MISTA was

named coach of Canadian Premier

League debutants Atletico Ottawa,

who are owned by Atletico Madrid.

AFRICA

Frenchman PATRICE BEAUMELLE

replaced Ibrahim Kamara as Ivory Coast

coach, while Algerian BOUALEM

MANKOUR took charge of Mauritius.

Moroccan champions Wydad

appointed JUAN CARLOS GARRIDO

as coach, with the Spaniard replaced

at Tunisian side Etoile du Sahel by

KAIS ZOUAGHI.

ASIA

Ex-Tunisia coach NABIL MAALOUL

took charge of Syria’s national side.

Chinese side Wuhan Zall signed Sevilla

defender DANIEL CARRICO.

Al Ahli Saudi replaced Christian Gross

with VLADAN MILOJEVIC.

ABDUL-GHANI SHAHAD was named

coach of Iraqi champions Al Shorta.

MANIZEH ZAINLI became the first

female general-secretary of the Pakistan

Football Federation.

“I write to inform that Eduardo will be absent this afternoon

for historical cultural commitments as he goes with his father

to watch a page being written into the history of Bergamo”

Sporting swoop for Braga’s Amorim

Sporting appointed RUBEN AMORIM as coach following

the departure of Silas after a run of poor results that saw

the side slip to fourth place in the Portuguese league.

Sporting paid €10million to release Amorim from his

Braga contract, along with his assistants Adelio Candido

and Carlos Fernandes. Amorim had replaced Sa Pinto

as Braga boss in January.

Braga, in turn, promoted under-17 coach CUSTODIO

to the position of first-team boss.

THE WORLD THIS MONTH

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