2019-05-01_World_Soccer

EUROPE

DIETER HECKING will be replaced as

coach of Borussia Monchengladbach at

the end of the season. The 54-year-old,

who has been in charge of Gladbach

since December 2016, will be replaced

by MARCO ROSE, who will leave current

Austrian champions Red Bull Salzburg in

the summer.

Albania sacked coach CHRISTIAN

PANUCCI after they lost their opening

Euro qualifier to Turkey.

Capped three times by England and

Aston Villa’s all-time top scorer in the

Premier League with 73 goals, GABRIEL

AGBONLAHOR retired aged 32.

Polish champions Legia Warsaw

sacked Portuguese coach RICARDO SA

PINTO after a 4-0 loss to Wisla Krakow.

“We played catastrophically, we defended catastrophically.

Bayern clearly were the better team. We put no pressure at all on

them. Not for one moment did we have the match in hand”

Borussia Dortmund captain Marco Reus reflects on his side’s

5-0 hammering by Bayern Munich in Der Klassiker

ASIA

BERT VAN MARWIJK, who led
Holland to the Final of the 2010 World
Cup, was appointed national coach of
the United Arab Emirates. JOHN
METGOD left his position as a director
at Nottingham Forest to become his
Dutch compatriot’s assistant.

Cardiff City’s ARON GUNNARSSON
will join Qatari side Al Arabi when
his contract expires at the end of
the season, reuniting the Icelandic
midfielder with his former international
boss, Heimir Hallgrimsson.

Former Finland boss MIXU
PAATELAINEN took charge of Hong
Kong’s national side, succeeding English
coach Gary White.

SOUTH AMERICA

GONZALO HIGUAIN, who appeared

at three World Cups and played in the

2014 Final, retired from international

football as Argentina’s sixth-highest

scorer of all time, with a record of 31

goals in 75 games.

AFRICA

Malawi chose not to extend the

contract of Belgian coach RONNY VAN

GENEUGDEN at the end of his two-year

tenure with the national team.

Cannavaro appointed

China boss...for now

FABIO CANNAVARO was

announced as the coach of

China ahead of the recent China

Cup tournament, succeeding

Marcello Lippi.

Italy’s 2006 World Cup-winning

captain also retained his position in

charge of Chinese Super League

side Guangzhou Evergrande, while

Lippi stayed on as an advisor for

the China Cup.

China finished fourth in the

four-team tournament, behind

Uruguay, Thailand and Uzbekistan.

The Chinese FA has yet to

confirm whether Cannavaro will

be appointed on a full-time basis.

GLOBAL FOOTBALL INTELLIGENCE

Chance...Fabio Cannavaro

Released...Ronny

Van Geneugden

Appointments, sackings and loans

Sacked...

Christian

Panucci

Replaced...

Dieter Hecking

Club man...

Gonzalo Higuain