Joachim Low has revealed that he is contemplating coaching a foreign club once his contract with Germany expires after the 2018 World Cup.
The 56-year-old had an underwhelming career as a club coach before joining up with the German national team as Jurgen Klinsmann s assistant in 2004, with the high point being taking Stuttgart to the UEFA Cup Winners Cup final in 1997-98, a match won 1-0 by Chelsea.
Low also had unsuccessful spells with Fenerbahce, Karlsruher and Austria Vienna among others, but after guiding Germany to a World Cup triumph in 2014, the former midfielder might have rather more illustrious admirers should he opt to embark on a new challenge when his deal ends.
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Football icon Diego Maradona says there is nothing to choose from between Real Madrid and Barcelona rivals Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
The stellar pair s ongoing rivalry has dominated the footballing landscape this decade, perhaps taking the baton from Maradona s own dispute with Brazilian great Pele over which of them is the sport s greatest player.
Having emerged from the cursed shadow of a next Maradona to establish his own legend, Messi has won eight LaLiga titles and four Champions Leagues in a glittering 12 years as a senior Barcelona player.
Ronaldo, a four-time league champion in England and Spain as well as three-time Champions League winner, seized a crucial advantage over Messi in the race to be this era s greatest this year as he captained Por…
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Hoping to make an immediate return to winning ways on Saturday evening, Tottenham will welcome Leicester to north London.
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Starting with the hosts, while Tottenham might have been smelling the chance to lay down a Champions League marker on foreign soil earlier in the week, Antonio Conte s men put in a downbeat display. Eventually hit with a late 2-0 loss away at Sporting Lisbon, Spurs will be desperate to prove that was just a minor blip. However, last seen on Premier League duties picking up a 2-1 victory against top-flight returners Fulham, the one-time Chelsea boss has seen his side muster 14 points from their opening six outings. Likewise, one of just two sides who can boast an unbeaten start to the 2022/23 campaign, To…
French First Division side Lorient made a double transfer swoop on Monday as they snapped up Argentinian striker Sebastian Dubarbier and French defender Gregory Bourillon.
Both players signed four-and-a-half year contracts with Lorient who are ninth in the league table and reached the League Cup semi-finals last week after beating Lyon.
Dubarbier, 23 and who began his career at Gimnasia La Plata, signed from Romanian club Cluj while Bourillon arrives from Paris Saint Germain.
Dubarbier joined Cluj in 2008 with whom he has appeared in both the Champions League last term and this season s Europa League.
This season he has scored six goals in 23 league games.
Bourillon, 25 and a former France Under-21 international, had been at PSG since 2007 but ha…
The Football Association have not met with England manager Roy Hodgson to discuss a contract extension but plan to do so in the coming months, according to chairman Greg Dyke.
Hodgson, who replaced Fabio Capello in May 2012, is out of contract at the end of the European Championship in France in 2016.
The 67-year-old is believed to want to extend his deal through to the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
While there have not been discussions regarding Hodgson s contract, Dyke insisted the Englishman s future will be sorted in due course.
I get on quite well with Roy and I chat to him all the time, he said. We have not talked about contracts yet.
We will have the discussion with Roy in the next nine months to a year.
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A football manager has been hit with a lengthy ban after being found guilty of betting against his own teams.
Nick Bunyard, now in charge of Southern League Premier Division side Frome Town, is banned until July 2019 following a Football Association ruling announced on Wednesday.
Bunyard, who must also pay a fine of £3,000, was found to have backed the opponents of his side on 45 occasions, including while in charge of Paulton Rovers.
He placed a total of 97 bets between September 2014 and April this year. FA rules introduced two years ago implemented a blanket ban on football gambling for all those involved in the game .
Frome suspended Bunyard when they were notified of the FA s investigation into their manager.
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Juventus defender Merih Demiral has been ruled out for around three weeks with a thigh injury.
The Turkey international sustained the damage late on in Tuesday s 3-2 win over Porto, which saw Juve exit the Champions League on away goals at the last-16 stage.
Juve confirmed on Thursday that Demiral, who has been plagued by a number of injury setbacks over the past year, suffered low-grade tissue damage.
He is expected to miss 20 days, potentially ruling the 23-year-old out of Juventus Serie A games with Cagliari, Napoli and Benevento.
Demiral is subsequently a major doubt for Turkey s World Cup qualifying triple-header against the Netherlands, Norway and Latvia later this month.
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Real Madrid are interested in signing Donny van de Beek from Manchester United in the summer of 2021, according to . It has been reported by the Spanish news outlet that the Netherlands international could leave the Red Devils after just one season, and that Spanish and European giants Madrid want to secure his services.
Madrid were interested in Van de Beek in the summer of 2020, but the 23-year-old midfielder joined United from Ajax instead for €39 million. Much was expected of the youngster when he arrived at Old Trafford, but the midfielder has struggled for playing time and is essentially a squad player at the English club.
According to , Van de Beek has made two starts and 11 substitute appearances in the Premier League for United so far this season, scoring one…
Roma have completed signing of Ivory Coast international Gervinho from Arsenal, .
The 26 year old had failed to make a real impression in North London since signing from Lille in 2011, scoring just nine goals in forty-six league appearances.
His form in France was far superior, with fifteen goals in Lille’s title winning 2010/11 campaign enough to convince the Gunners boss to secure his services.
Roma manager Rudi Garcia is delighted to have secured Gervinho’s services, having been the man in charge during the player’s time at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy.
The attacker becomes the sixth first team player to leave the Emirates on a permanent deal this summer, as Arsene Wenger continues to trim his underperforming squad.
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Thomas Tuchel could be offered a contract extension at Borussia Dortmund despite the club s underwhelming Bundesliga form, according to chief executive officer Hans-Joachim Watzke.
Dortmund are third in the table, but sit 13 points adrift of leaders Bayern Munich and eight shy of second-placed RB Leipzig.
Defeat to Benfica in the first leg of their last-16 Champions League tie came amid reports Tuchel s Signal Iduna Park future was under threat, with his deal set to expire next year.
But Watzke insists there remains a very real chance the 43-year-old coach will be offered fresh terms.
Of course a new contract is an option, Watzke told Bild.
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