World Soccer - UK 2020-05)

EUROPE

HANSI FLICK agreed a deal to coach

Bayern Munich until 2023. The 55-year-

old – who was placed in interim charge in

November and then given a permanent

deal the following month until the end

of the season – had won 18 of his 21

matches in charge as the side went four

points clear at the top of the Bundesliga.

STEPHEN KENNY succeeded Mick

McCarthy as manager of the Republic

of Ireland. He had originally been set

to take over after Euro 2020 but the

postponement of the play-offs and

the finals tournament itself accelerated

FAI plans.

EUROPE

Former Arsenal players ALEX SONG

and JOHAN DJOUROU were among

nine players who were sacked by their

club side Sion for refusing to agree

to wage cuts during the indefinite

suspension of the Swiss top flight.

“My first match for France was also his first match so we started

and grew together. Michel was not a great tactician but a man

who knew who he could trust and how to select the right players”

OPOKU AFRIYIE (1945-2020)

Scored twice as Ghana beat Uganda

in the 1978 Africa Cup of Nations Final

and was a sub when they won again

four years later. Leading scorer in the

Ghanaian top flight in 1979 and 1981

with Asante Kotoko, he joined Hearts of

Oak at the end of his career, becoming

one of the first players to play for the

country’s two most successful clubs.

PK BANERJEE (1936-2020)

Won a gold medal with India at the 1962

Asian Games, scoring the opening goal

in the Final against South Korea, and

captained his country at the 1960

Olympics, scoring in a 1-1 draw with

France. Later coached the national team.

JOSE LUIS CAPON (1948-2020)

Played 269 games in nine seasons with

Atletico Madrid, winning La Liga in 1973

and 1977, the Intercontinental Cup in

1974 and the 1976 Copa del Rey. A

runner-up in the 1974 European Cup

Final, which Atletico lost to Bayern

Munich, the defender was also capped

13 times by Spain.

MICHEL HIDALGO (1933-2020)

As coach of France, from 1976 to 1984,

he led Les Bleus to their first silverware

when winning the 1984 Euros, having

taken them to the World Cup semi-finals

two years earlier. An attacking midfielder

during his playing days for Le Havre,

Reims and Monaco, he scored in the

1956 European Cup Final as Reims

lost 4-3 to Real Madrid.

KWASI OWUSU (1945-2020)

Captained Ghana in the 1970 Africa Cup

of Nations Final, which they lost 1-0 to

the hosts Sudan. He was his country’s

all-time leading scorer with 36 goals

until Asamoah Gyan broke his record.

Hareide steps

down as coach

of Denmark

AGE HAREIDE stepped

down as Denmark’s

national coach following

the postponement of the

European Championship

finals until next year.

The Norwegian had

been due to leave in July.

He is set to be replaced

by former Mainz boss

Kasper Hjulmand.

OBITUARIES

THE WORLD THIS MONTH

Michel Platini remembers Michel Hidalgo

Ex Chelsea and Nigeria midfielder

JOHN OBI MIKEL left Turkish side

Trabzonspor by mutual consent.

Italian coach GIUSEPPE SANNINO

terminated his contract with Budapest

Honved by mutual agreement.

ROB CHAKRAVERTY

resigned as England’s

team doctor following

revelations about his

previous employment

at UK Athletics and

a controversy that

involved the four-time

Olympic gold medallist

Mo Farah.

ASIA

ANTE MISE returned

home to Croatia after

his one-year contract

to coach Turkmenistan

was not renewed.

PAPE DIOUF (1951-2020)

Became the first black president of a

major European football club when he

took charge of Marseille. Born in Chad,

his family moved back home to Senegal

when he was a child before he emigrated

to France at 17. He became president of

OM in 2005 and during his four years at

the helm they were French champions

once and runners-up twice, as well as

runners-up twice in the cup.

JOAQUIN PEIRO (1936-2020)

Ex Atletico Madrid, Torino, Internazionale

and Roma forward who was a member of

the Inter side that won the European Cup

in 1965. He also lifted the Cup-winners

Cup, with Atletico in 1962. Capped 12

times by Spain, he played at the 1962 and

1966 World Cups, and would later coach,

among others, Atletico Madrid and Malaga.

LORENZO SANZ (1943-2020)

Real Madrid president from 1995 to

2000 during a period in which they won

the Champions League twice. In 2006

he purchased Malaga before selling the

club in 2010.

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE Appointments, sackings and loans

Goodbye...Age Hareide has left Denmark

First...Pape Diouf

Euro success...

Michel Hidalgo