A LETTER FROM PTUJ.Byline: CHRIS LEPKOWSKI'S DAY FIVE ONE or two things occasionally annoy me about this job. Meeting Miss Slovenia 2004 is not necessarily one of those. The Ljubljana beauty, subsequently an entrant into the Miss World contest that same year, is Albion's newest fan after checking into the Grand Hotel Primus yesterday. She even dressed for the occasion, wearing a blue and white outfit. Luckily for the Birmingham Mail The Birmingham Mail is a tabloid newspaper based in Birmingham, UK but distributed around Birmingham, The Black Country, Solihull, Warwickshire and parts of Worcestershire and Staffordshire. , the glorious and highly-intelligent Ziva Vadnov - not just a pretty face, she speaks five languages - posed outside the hotel with an Albion training kit and passed on her best wishes to the club for next season. With support like that, Roberto Di Matteo's job has just got easier. Elsewhere, one person who won't be making many phonecalls for a while is Bill Styles, the club's assistant head of sports science Sports science is a discipline that studies the application of scientific principles and techniques with the aim of improving sporting performance. Human movement is a related scientific discipline that studies human movement in all contexts including that of sport. . Bill helps players in their recovery from injuries and has helped to organise this tour. But he got himself into hot water - literally - when he took an evening dip in the hotel's indoor pool. All was well until that s duly pulled out a totally submerged mobile phone and wallet. Bet he felt a right drip...(sorry). Di Matteo, meanwhile, was on 'interview duty' today. It's easy to forget that he's worked for some of the finest managers and coaches - Arrigo Sacchi Arrigo Sacchi (born 11 April 1946 at Fusignano) is a former head coach of the Italy national football team (1991-1996), and twice manager of A.C. Milan (1987-1991, 1996-1997). Sacchi never played the game professionally, and before becoming a coach he was a shoe salesman. , Dino Zoff Dino Zoff (born February 28, 1942) is an Italian former football goalkeeper and is the oldest winner ever of the World Cup, which he earned as captain of the Italian team in the 1982 tournament in Spain, at the age of 40. , Zdenek Zeman, Ruud Gullit, Gianluca Vialli, Claudio Ranieri and Cesare Maldini. With a background like that, and a burning ambition and single-mindedness which is obvious when you speak to him, you wonder what he'll bring to Albion's table this season... CAPTION(S): Model supporter: Ziva Vadnov |
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