WORLD CUP NOTEBOOK: U.S. DENIES REPORT.Byline: Staff and Wire Services U.S. Soccer officials called a report in an English newspaper claiming the Americans have made preliminary contact with Germany coach Juergen Klinsmann fiction, saying they aren't in the market for a newcoach. The London-based Daily Telegraph, citing a ``senior American federation source,'' reported Tuesday that U.S. Soccer would offer Klinsmann nearly $2.8 million a year to guide the national team through the 2010 World Cup in South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. . Bruce Arena Bruce Arena (born September 21, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American soccer coach, currently Head Coach and Sporting Director for Red Bull New York of Major League Soccer and the former coach of the United States men's national soccer team. , the newspaper said, was stepping down to return to club coaching. ``There is absolutely no truth to that report,'' said Jim Moorhouse, U.S. Soccer's communications director. Klinsmann, 41, a former star striker who lives in Huntington Beach Huntington Beach, city (1990 pop. 181,519), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast, across from Santa Catalina Island, in an oil-producing area; inc. 1909. It manufactures aerospace vehicles, aircraft parts, optical instruments, and heat transfer equipment. and studied under Arena, guided the Germans to the World Cup semifinals. They lost 2-0 in overtime to Italy on Tuesday and will play in Saturday's third-place game. Arena hinted after the Americans' elimination nearly twoweeks ago that he would end his eight-year tenure as U.S. coach, but he has not announced his decision. Klinsmann likely would top the U.S. wish list should Arena step down, but the federation wouldn't act, officials said, until Germany's World Cup run finished. The Deutscher Fussball- Bund, Germany's soccer federation, has offered Klinsmann a two-year contract extension through the 2008 European Championship There are various championships held in a variety of sports on a European Level:
-- Scott French One more for a knockout: FIFA FIFA International Association Football Federation [French Fédération Internationale de Football Association] FIFA n abbr (= Fédération Internationale de Football Association) → FIFA f president Sepp Blatter Joseph "Sepp" Blatter (born March 10, 1936 in Visp, Wallis, Switzerland) is the 8th and current president of FIFA. He was elected on June 8, 1998, succeeding Dr. João Havelange (Brazil). His Senior Vice President is Julio Grondona. supports a new booking system that would allow players to receive three yellow cards in a round at the World Cup before they're suspended for a match. With record numbers of red and yellow cards handed out at this World Cup, Blatter Blat´ter v. i. 1. To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [ imp. & p. p. os> ( ) r>.] They procured . . . said it would be a ``very wise suggestion'' to amend the existing rules. Two cautions in a match earns an automatic ejection and a one-match ban. Two cautions across three matches in the first round, or two in the whole knockout round, result in a one-match suspension. Brazil's left back: Roberto Carlos Roberto Carlos may refer to:
``My history with the `selecao' is finished,'' Roberto Carlos said. The 33-year-old left back, who scored 10 goals in 128international games and was part of the 2002 champions, was criticized in Brazil for his performance in Saturday's 1-0 loss to France. ``I did everything to win,'' he said Monday on his Web site. ``Only those inside (the squad) know the pressure and the difficulties that exist in a World Cup.'' |
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