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tagged: coach Fernando Santos, Greek National Soccer Team, new coach for Greece, Otto Rehhagel, World Cup 2010 South AfricaFernando Santos: officially new coach of Greek National Team
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Sports
Fernando Santos was named coach of the Greek national team Thursday, replacing Germany’s Otto Rehhagel who held the post nine years and guided Greece to victory at Euro 2004 but failed in South African World Cup 2010.
The executive board of the Greek Football Federation (EPO) on Thursday unanimously voted to appoint Portugese Santos to the post for the next two years, taking the team through to the Euro 2012 qualification round.
Greek media report that Santos, 55, will be getting 600,000 euros a year for coaching the squad, about half of what the Greeks were giving Rehhagel.
Santos is not new to Greek football. He has coached three of the country’s biggest clubs — AEK Athens (twice), Panathinaikos and most recently PAOK Salonika — since arriving in Greece in 2001.
He capped an excellent 2009/10 season by leading PAOK into the Champions League qualifiers for the first time. But he quitted in May due to …. “burn out and personal reasons”.
Santos was named Coach of the Decade earlier this year by the Greek Super League and in 2000 was ranked ninth best manager in the world by world football governing body FIFA.
He has also coached Benfica, where Greek midfielders Costas Katsouranis and Giorgos Karagounis both played for him, Sporting and Porto whom he led to the Portuguese championship in 1994.
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