Qatar appoint Fossati as national team head coach
AFP
Sep 25, 2016 12:45 PM IST
DOHA: Qatar confirmed on Saturday that Jorge Fossati is the new national team coach, tasked with trying to revive the country’s fading hopes of making its first ever World Cup finals in Russia in 2018.
The appointment was confirmed in a message posted on Twitter by the Qatar Football Association, which read simply: “Mr Jorge Fossati is back officially to be the head coach of our national team.”
The 63-year-old Uruguayan was formerly in charge of Qatar between 2007 and 2008, though that ended somewhat sourly when he lost his job while still recovering from surgery.
He replaces compatriot Jose Daniel Carreno.
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