Craig Brown had steered Scotland to the European Championship in 1996 and the World Cup in 1998, but failure to secure qualification to the European Championship in 2000 (losing to England in a play-off) and failure to qualify for the World Cup in 2002 (finishing 3rd in the Qualifying Group) saw the manager resign. The SFA then made a bold move by hiring German legend Berti Vogts – it was meant to be a new dawn for the Scottish national team.
In many respects, it was a new dawn – but in a bad...Read Full Story
Why Siasia is best for Super Eagles
PABULUM By SINA ADEDIPE
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
After treating the issue of Coach Stephen Keshi last week the spotlight today is on Augustine Eguavoen. Yes, he was the chief coach of the Super Eagles for two years from 2005 – 07. True also that the team won ten of the twelve matches played under him during the period losing only two and won the bronze diadem during the 2006 Nations Cup.
And it is equally true that he was an assistant coach to German-born...Read Full Story
Berti Vogts, früherer Trainer der deutschen Fußball-Nationalmannschaft und aktueller Coach der Auswahl von Aserbaidschan, feiert an diesem Freitag seinen 65. Geburtsta [...]1 StimmenRead Full Story
Berti Vogts, früherer Trainer der deutschen Fußball-Nationalmannschaft und aktueller Coach der Auswahl von Aserbaidschan, feiert an diesem Freitag seinen 65. Geburtsta [...]1 StimmenRead Full Story
Berti Vogts, früherer Trainer der deutschen Fußball-Nationalmannschaft und aktueller Coach der Auswahl von Aserbaidschan, feiert an diesem Freitag seinen 65. Geburtsta [...]1 StimmenRead Full Story
Head coach of the national team of Azerbaijan Berti Vogts spoke at a news conference before the match against Japan. "The match with Japan is very important to us", Vogts said ...
“If that is good enough, then great, and if not you keep on persevering.” Webster won the majority of his Scotland caps under flop boss Berti Vogts. Ill-fated spells at Wigan and Rangers saw him fall out of the internatinal reckoning. But he insists he ...
who was man-marked by Berti Vogts and consistently took the defender deep, making it easier for Liverpool's attacks to stay onside. Keegan had twice been elected European Footballer of the Year by the time he led Hamburg's attack against Nottingham Forest ...
Impressed by his record with Switzerland and Inter Milan, the Germans wanted him to succeed Berti Vogts in September 1998. German FA president Egidius Braun tempted Erich Ribbeck out of retirement and admitted, at the 61-year old's unveiling: "We made ...
Other than a title, his record compares favourably with Germany's legendary coaches Franz Beckenbauer, who coached the 1990 World Cup winning team, and Berti Vogts, whose side won Euro 96. As a player, Loew, who hails from Germany's Black Forest near the ...
Roy Hodgson was once approached by England's arch rivals Germany. Impressed by his record with Switzerland and Inter Milan, the Germans wanted him to succeed Berti Vogts in September 1998. Hodgson declined because he would not break his contract with ...
A brief history of the European Championships reveals the broader trend. Each of the three winning managers from 1992 to 2000 - Richard Moller Nielsen, Berti Vogts and Roger Lemerre - had served their apprenticeship as an assistant to the ...