2019-05-01_World_Soccer

“Everyone knows I have Sevilla in my blood, but there

has been a problem with my white and red blood cells

and I have been told that I have chronic leukaemia”

EUROPE

OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER, who

arrived on an interim basis in December

to replace Jose Mourinho, was appointed

Manchester United’s permanent manager.

Wolverhampton Wanderers paid

Benfica a club record £32m to make

RAUL JIMENEZ’s loan deal permanent.

VINCENZO MONTELLA replaced

Stefano Pioli as coach of Fiorentina.

HUUB STEVENS was named Schalke

coach after they sacked Domenico

Tedesco, while MARTIN SCHMIDT

replaced Manuel Baum at Augsburg.

Ajax number two ALFRED

SCHREUDER will take charge of

Hoffenheim at the end of the season.

LUCAS HERNANDEZ will join Bayern

Munich from Atletico Madrid on a five-

year deal this summer.

Monchi back at Sevilla alongside

caretaker coach Caparros

MONCHI returned to Sevilla as the club’s sporting director

after leaving his role as director of football at Roma, while

JOAQUIN CAPARROS moved across from his role as the

Spanish club’s director of football to become interim coach

following the departure of Pablo Machin.

Caparros will stay in the role at least until the end of the

season despite a recent diagnosis of chronic leukaemia.

Sevilla coach Joaquin Caparros reveals his recently diagnosed medical condition

AFRICA

BASHIR HAYFORD, who was in

charge of hosts Ghana at the Women’s

African Nations Cup last year, replaced

Mohamed Abdulla Farayare as coach of

Somalia. Frenchman JULIEN METTE

took charge of Djibouti.

Franco-Portuguese DIDIER GOMES

DA ROSA replaced Patrice Neveu as

coach of Horoya just three days after he

guided the Guinean side to the quarter-

finals of the CAF Champions League.

Spanish coach TONI COSANO

replaced Beto Bianchi in charge of

Angolan side Petro de Luanda after their

exit from the group stage of the CAF

Confederation Cup.

PACO JEMEZ returned to Rayo

Vallecano after they dismissed Michel.

Udinese brought back IGOR TUDOR

as coach after sacking Davide Nicola.

Former Chelsea and Ghana

midfielder MICHAEL ESSIEN, who

had been a free agent since leaving

Indonesian club Persib Bandung last year,

joined Azerbaijan top-tier side Sabail.

Former Yugoslavia striker SAVO

MILOSEVIC was appointed coach

of Partizan Belgrade.

SOUTH AMERICA

Brazil striker ALEXANDRE PATO left

Chinese side Tianjin Tianhai and returned

home to join Sao Paulo.

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

THE WORLD THIS MONTH

National job...

Bashir Hayford

Home...Monchi

Return...

Igor Tudor

UAE job

...Bert Van

Marwijk

In...Huub

Stevens