Post by midfielder on Nov 7, 2007 20:59:23 GMT 10
Sorry to Mods if this sb in Australian thread and also if its been posted before. If so I did not see it over the last week, but Alex Tobin is to be assistant Socceroo coach I guess until Dick Advocaat is appointed.
Adds more to our cred and also explain why we have had good backs.
www.smh.com.au/news/football/tobin-to-answer-socceroos-call-again/2007/10/30/1193618884209.html
Tobin to answer Socceroos call again
FORMER Socceroos skipper Alex Tobin is set to be promoted to the national coaching staff when technical director Rob Baan takes charge of the Australian team for next month's friendly against Nigeria in London.
With Dick Advocaat declining the invitation to make his Socceroos coaching debut until the start of the World Cup campaign in February, the Socceroos will have a makeshift coaching team for the match at Craven Cottage on November 17. Baan has not coached the team before. Tobin, , the most-capped Australian player in history, is expected to be his assistant.
Former Socceroos coach Graham Arnold, while still employed as a staff coach by Football Federation Australia, is unavailable because he has conflicting commitments with the Olympic [under-23] team, which plays a crucial qualifier against Iraq in Gosford on the same night. John Kosmina's recent return to club coaching with Sydney FC has effectively left the cupboard bare.
Tobin has been on the coaching staff at Central Coast Mariners for the past three years. While the Mariners have a match in Perth the day after the Socceroos play in London, head coach Lawrie McKinna will be able to release Tobin because he has another assistant, Ian Ferguson, on his staff.
Although Tobin has no senior club coaching experience, he has worked for the FFA before - taking the beach football team to the 2005 World Cup in Brazil.
Meanwhile, a third A-League club may be invited into the Asian Champions League from 2009 when plans for the expansion of Asia's showcase competition are discussed in Sydney later next month.
A series of meetings is scheduled around the Asian Football Confederation annual awards night, to be held at Darling Harbour on November 27.
One of those meetings will develop plans to unveil a new-look ACL in 2009, and sources suggest Australia may receive a third qualifying place - one more than at present - even if the A-League is not expanded by then. Significantly, the qualifying places will be decided by results from the current A-League season, adding an extra edge to what is developing into the tightest title race in the competition's short history.
Adds more to our cred and also explain why we have had good backs.
www.smh.com.au/news/football/tobin-to-answer-socceroos-call-again/2007/10/30/1193618884209.html
Tobin to answer Socceroos call again
FORMER Socceroos skipper Alex Tobin is set to be promoted to the national coaching staff when technical director Rob Baan takes charge of the Australian team for next month's friendly against Nigeria in London.
With Dick Advocaat declining the invitation to make his Socceroos coaching debut until the start of the World Cup campaign in February, the Socceroos will have a makeshift coaching team for the match at Craven Cottage on November 17. Baan has not coached the team before. Tobin, , the most-capped Australian player in history, is expected to be his assistant.
Former Socceroos coach Graham Arnold, while still employed as a staff coach by Football Federation Australia, is unavailable because he has conflicting commitments with the Olympic [under-23] team, which plays a crucial qualifier against Iraq in Gosford on the same night. John Kosmina's recent return to club coaching with Sydney FC has effectively left the cupboard bare.
Tobin has been on the coaching staff at Central Coast Mariners for the past three years. While the Mariners have a match in Perth the day after the Socceroos play in London, head coach Lawrie McKinna will be able to release Tobin because he has another assistant, Ian Ferguson, on his staff.
Although Tobin has no senior club coaching experience, he has worked for the FFA before - taking the beach football team to the 2005 World Cup in Brazil.
Meanwhile, a third A-League club may be invited into the Asian Champions League from 2009 when plans for the expansion of Asia's showcase competition are discussed in Sydney later next month.
A series of meetings is scheduled around the Asian Football Confederation annual awards night, to be held at Darling Harbour on November 27.
One of those meetings will develop plans to unveil a new-look ACL in 2009, and sources suggest Australia may receive a third qualifying place - one more than at present - even if the A-League is not expanded by then. Significantly, the qualifying places will be decided by results from the current A-League season, adding an extra edge to what is developing into the tightest title race in the competition's short history.
