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Metsu quits as UAE coach after World Cup losses
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-09-22 17:53 Soccer - Frenchman Bruno Metsu has quit as coach of the United Arab Emirates after his team suffered two successive home defeats in the final Asian round of 2010 World Cup qualifying.
The 54-year-old Metsu was unhappy with his team's lack of fighting spirit in their defeats by North Korea and Saudi Arabia this month and felt he had nothing more to offer, team manager Abdullah Hassan said on Monday. "He felt like he had taken the team as far as he could," Abdullah told Reuters by telephone. "It was the end of the line for him and he felt he couldn't give anything more. The football association will start looking for his replacement immediately." Doping - The World Anti-Doping Agency have approved the accreditation of India's National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL). "The Executive Committee approved the accreditation of a new laboratory in New Delhi, India," WADA said on its website. "The National Dope Testing Laboratory has successfully completed the requirements of the WADA accreditation process monitored by the Agency's Laboratory Working Committee." The New Delhi laboratory becomes the 34th WADA accredited laboratory in the world and India's first. Soccer - Portugal's Jose De Moraes has been appointed coach of Yemen's national soccer team, the country's news agency reported. De Moraes, a former boss of United Arab Emirates club Al Shabab, will earn $20,000 a month coaching the Gulf strugglers and replaces Egyptian Mohsen Saleh, who quit after suffering his second heart attack in the space of a year. |
