Former LA Galaxy boss Ruud Gullit will make his return to football after signing on as manager of Russian Premier League side Terek Grozny.
The 48-year-old has not managed since quitting the Galaxy in 2008, but has signed an 18-month deal with Terek, who finished 12th in the Russian top flight last season.
I m very happy with my contract of a year and a half. Next weekend I will join up with the team and we will begin preparing for the season, Gullit said.
I look forward to getting back into it and this is a beautiful, great opportunity for me.
Gullit has reportedly been set the target of a top eight finish with the Chechen club, but could face a challenge settling into life in the war-torn Russian province.
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Porto, Benfica and Sporting Braga all progressed to the Europa League quarter-finals in a good evening for Portuguese sides on Thursday.
The night was not so kind for British teams, with tournament favourites Manchester City, Liverpool and Glasgow Rangers all exiting continental competition far earlier than they would have liked.
Porto, who are unbeaten in 32 league games and are 13 points clear of Benfica at the top of the Liga Sagres table, produced another excellent performance to defeat CSKA Moscow 2-1 at the Estadio Do Dragao.
After they won the first leg in Moscow 1-0, Brazilian striker Hulk, who has 29 goals in all competitions, gave Porto the perfect start with a goal inside the first minute.
Freddy Guarin doubled Porto s advantage after 24 minut…
Football League Championship side Birmingham City have completed the signing of Brek Shea on a three-month emergency loan.
The USA international, 24, has moved to St. Andrew s from Stoke City, with the player s parent club having no recall option.
Shea, who has been assigned the No. 13 shirt, is already in contention to feature against Leeds United at the weekend.
I ve been chasing Brek for a while and actually wanted to sign him permanently at the start of the season, Clark told the Club s official website.
He impressed me when he played for Barnsley here at St. Andrew s on New Year s Day and, given our recent injuries, it made sense to make this loan move, importantly with no recall clause being something that I have stressed all along.
Inter Milan striker Samuel Eto’o admits he is questioning his future with the Serie A club.
Eto o, who finished last season as the league s third leading goalscorer with 21 goals in 35 games, has refused to rule out trying his luck in the English Premier League.
The Cameroon international had committed himself to the Italian club towards the end of the season, but it looks now like he has had a change of heart about leaving the San Siro.
It is true that I have a few offers, the former Barcelona player said.
I have a month off now to evaluate all of them and decide what to do.
I’m 30, I’m close to my final big contract and we’ll have to see whether I should stay or go.
My eventual departure is not to try to earn 100,000 or 20…
Jordi Alba ranks Iker Casillas as one of the best three goalkeepers in the world and has defended his place in Spain s national team.
Casillas position in the Spain squad has been called into question ever since he made a series of high-profile errors at the 2014 World Cup.
Thus far head coach Vicente del Bosque has kept faith with the 34-year-old keeper, who left Real Madrid after 25 years to join Porto in the close-season.
His selection continues to draw criticism from sections of the Spanish media, but Barcelona full-back Jordi Alba leapt to the defence of his international team-mate.
We know the quality of Iker and we are with him all the away, the 27-year-old told reporters ahead of Spain s friendly against Italy in Udine on Thursday.
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Borussia Dortmund midfielder Nuri Sahin is looking forward to a reunion with Jurgen Klopp, but reflects only positively on his short spell at Liverpool.
Sahin, 27, and Dortmund host the Premier League outfit in the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final on Thursday.
The Turkey international, who had a brief loan spell at Liverpool in 2012-13, insists the tie will have no impact on his team-mates relationship with former coach Klopp.
We have worked for seven, eight years, Sahin told Sport1.
That he knows us is beyond question. We know him well. We all have a great relationship with Klopp. That will not suffer in these two games.
Sahin was on loan at Anfield from Real Madrid in 2012-13, before the midfielder made his return to Dortmund.
Ahmed Hegazi scored on his West Brom debut as Tony Pulis side opened the new Premier League season with a 1-0 victory over Bournemouth at the Hawthorns.
The Egypt centre-back, who joined on loan from Al Ahly last month, headed in from close range just after the half-hour mark to ensure the home side were able to celebrate their head coach signing a one-year contract extension with three points.
Pulis agreed terms to extend his stay with the club until 2019 on Friday, and it was back to business 24 hours later as West Brom continued the theme of the previous campaign by displaying trademark defensive steel coupled with set-piece prowess.
Jay Rodriguez, another off-season arrival for the Baggies, had gone close on a couple of occasions prior to Hegazi s header, w…
Chelsea got their Premier League title defence up and running amid late drama as Marcos Alonso proved to be an unlikely two-goal hero in the 2-1 win over Tottenham at Wembley.
Last weekend s shock opening-day loss at home to Burnley – a match where captain Gary Cahill and Cesc Fabregas were sent off – and the ongoing saga over Diego Costa s future has cast an unwelcome shadow over Stamford Bridge and sounded unwelcome echoes of the last campaign they entered as champions.
Jose Mourinho paid with his job before Christmas in 2015 as a squad in turmoil hovered improbably over the relegation zone but Antonio Conte s side allayed doubts over a similar implosion as they turned in a performance of grit and togetherness at the national stadium.
Alonso produced the ch…
Asked about his Inter situation while on international duty as Denmark prepare to face Iceland in Sunday s Nations League clash, Eriksen told reporters: I don t want to sit on the bench for the whole season. I hope this isn t the coach s or the club s intention.
There will be an incredible number of matches in a short time, and now we also have three national team matches in a few days. The Champions League starts when we get back to their respective clubs, so there will be a lot of games to play.
I m sure I ll probably have my minutes. So it depends a lot on the people on the outside and I myself expect this moment to come.
I find myself at a point where perhaps I had never been in a club team before. I got off to a great start after arriving at Inter in Janu…
Euro 2020 has already produced some sensational moments over the course of the last few weeks and last night, we had two more fascinating games to enjoy with one of them being Czech Republic vs Denmark. It proved to be quite an eventful and tense affair but in the end, the Danes walked away as the 2-1 victors to cement their place in the semi-finals of this year s tournament.
Danish determination
Denmark had to endure heartache in their first game of the Euros as a result of Christian Eriksen s collapse. Alas, instead of hiding away from what happened, they used it as motivation to win their final fixture in the group stage and kickstart their journey to the final four. Nobody thought they d be able to get this far but they ve managed to do it, and it truly will be remarkable …