Greece National soccer team

The tale of filling the mentor place in Greece’s nationwide soccer team need its last event on Friday, whenever German Michael Skibbe will sign the contract.

The Greek Football Association (EPO) features hired Skibbe as the new national staff coach, after the country’s 2016 European Championship qualifying promotion ended in total tragedy with only 1 win.

The 50-year-old coach could be the fourth guy that will lay on Greece’s bench in one single year. The former Schalke player has actually an abundant resume, while he has coached several major clubs in Germany and chicken, including Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, Eintracht Frankfurt and Galatasaray.

Following the glorious success of winning the 2004 European tournament, it took Greece a decade to own a great showing in international soccer once they beat Ivory Coast together with a draw with Japan in the Brazil 2014 World Cup.

Combined with the end of 2014 World Cup, Greece’s effective collaboration with Portuguese advisor Fernando Santos ended aswell. Santos continued to teach Portugal and ended up being accompanied by Claudio Ranieri, Sergio Markarian and Greece’s Under 21 team coach Kostas Tsanas. All three were related to a number of humiliating defeats, culminating in two losses because of the Faeroe Islands into the Euro 2016 qualifiers and completing last-in Group F.