December 13th, 2007
Fabio Capello will become the highest paid coach in international football history as the Football Association will pay him about £6m-a-year to manage England. (Daily Mail)
But, no, it’s more of a bargain than that as Capello will actually be earning £4m-a-year. (Daily Mirror)
Real Madrid striker Raul says Capello will solve England’s problems - like he did in Spain when he led the Bernabeu club to league titles in his two spells with them. (Times) Read the rest of this entry »
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December 13th, 2007
Clarence Seedorf is one of Holland’s most decorated footballers and the only player to have won Champions League titles with three different clubs.
The 31-year-old AC Milan midfielder also knows a thing or two about Fabio Capello, the man widely being tipped to succeed Steve McClaren as the manager of the England national team.
Seedorf worked under Capello when the two of them were at Real Madrid in the late 1990s and has a lot of respect for both the 61-year-old Italian and his achievements.
Here, Seedorf, who has won Europe’s biggest club prize with Ajax, Real Madrid and AC Milan, outlines the qualities that have made Capello such a big hit for the Football Association.
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December 13th, 2007
Cab drivers are best known for giving hair-raising rides, not being taken on them.
But when one cabbie in southern Germany apparently wasn’t driving fast enough, his customer, former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher, took the wheel himself.
“It was sheer lunacy,” cabbie Tuncer Yilmaz told the Muenchener Abendzeitung newspaper. “He took the curves with full speed, but you couldn’t even notice it. He just knows how to do it.”
Schumacher’s spokeswoman, Sabine Kehm, confirmed the story Wednesday. She said Schumacher had flown in from Switzerland on Saturday on his private jet to buy a puppy from a breeder in the town of Gesuelz.
When Yilmaz picked up the seven-time Formula One champion and his family at the Coburg airport, he was star-struck.
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December 1st, 2007
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