Joachim Loew Biography

His full name is Joachim Jogi Loew, he was born in February 3, 1960 in Schönau im Schwarzwald, and Joachim Low is a former football player and the current head coach of the German national football team.

Playing career of Joachim Loew:

Joachim Loew Began his career in 1978 with the second division club SC Freiburg. In 1980, Loew joined VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga, but he faced difficulties in developed and played only four games without scoring any goal.  In the 1981-1982 seasons Loew played in Eintracht Frankfurt club 24 matches and scored five goals, but he returned to Freiburg in the following year. In the 1982-1983 seasons he scored 8 goals over 34 games, and in the 1983-1984 seasons, Loew scored 17 goals in 31 games in the Bundesliga. Then he returned to Serie A with Karlsruhe Club, but again he did not work, and only scored two goals in 24 games. Later, he returned to his club Freiburg and continued with them four years playing 116 games and scoring 38 goals. Loew concluded his career in Switzerland, where he played for FC Schaffhausen between 1989-1992 and Winterthur Club between 1992-1994. And Loew played four games with the national team of Germany soccer for youth under 21 years old.

Managerial career of Joachim Loew: 

Club coach and assistant coach of Germany National Team:

Loew began his coaching career as coach of the youth of Winterthur club despite him was still a soccer player. In the 1994-1995 seasons he coached FC Frauenfeld. And in the 1995-1996 seasons Loew became an assistant for the VfB Stuttgart coach Rolf Fringer and since Fringer had the opportunity to become coach of Switzerland later Loew became a football coach for the club as caretaker coach and then became the first coach of VfB Stuttgart. With the magic triangle consisting of the players Balakov, Giovanni Ailber and Fredi Bobic, the team played a successful season and won the national cup game, German Cup. In the following year the team arrived to the final of the UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup, but lost 0-1 against Chelsea and finished fourth in the Bundesliga. Loew left VfB Stuttgart in July 1998 and joined the Turkish club Fenerbahce. In October 1999, Loew became coach of Karlsruhe, but he was unable to avoid relegation to the third division so he was rejected. From December 2000 to March 2001, he returned to Turkey as coach of club Adanaspur, but he was refused again because of poor results. In October 2001 , Loew became coach of the Austrian Tirol Innsbruck and led the team to the Austrian league title in 2002 and in the same year, the club announced bankruptcy and was liquidated so Again, Loew found himself unemployed. The next job was with Austria Vienna between June 2003 - March 2004 before Loew became in a stunning assistant coach of Germany, under Jurgen Klinsmann in August 2004. Klinsmann and Loew had met several years earlier in a training school. Klinsmann came with a new offensive philosophy and tactical. Klinsmann has formed a personal charismatic and highly influential and smart tactics as well as the love of a strong team Joachim Loew; they reached the semifinals at the Confederations Cup before losing to Brazil 3-2 in the best match of the tournament. And after that Germany defeated Mexico 4-3 after extra time in the match for third place, When Germany opened the World Cup Football 2006 on June 9.

Joachim Loew head coach of Germany:

Euro 2008

On July 12, 2006, in the wake of Jurgen Klinsmann's decision not to renew his contract, Joachim Loew was appointed the new coach of the German national team. Loew won the contract for two years, and announced that he wants to continue in the philosophy that he and Klinsmann put it. He announced that his goal is to win Euro 2008. But Germany lost 0-1 to Spain in the final of the European Championship on June 29, 2008.

World Cup 2010

Then it followed by a stage of qualifying for the World Cup Soccer 2010 where Loew faced stiff competition from the Russian team under the command of Dutch coach Guus Hiddink. And Loew could with rate tactic of skipping the Russian team and defeat in their home in Moscow. And deservedly Germany qualified for the figures the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Loew have been drawn in a tough group involving teams of Serbs and Ghana and Australia. And Loew were able to access the German national team to the second round after a relatively convincing performance topping the group at the same time in which it failed team’s champions Italy and France runner-up. In the first knockout round and a young team Loew faced England full of stars led by the legendary coach Fabio Capello. And Loew demonstrated his experience after the overthrow of the English team 4-1 in an impressive performance of my plans followed by a sweep of Argentina with four goals other clean in the quarter-finals emphasizing the versatility of tremendous training and after serious consideration. Loew led Germany to the semi-final to lose in front of Spain 2-0.

 

Sabella rules out Aguero and de Maria against Uruguay

The coach of Argentina football team Alejandro Sabella ruled out the duo Sergio Aguero and Angel Di Maria from participating in front of Uruguay in the final round of South American qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Sources of the Argentine Federation of game confirmed that Sabella relieved Aguero and de Maria from entering the summit match against Uruguay in Montevideo next Tuesday to give them comfort and to prevent their exposure to stop which runs for the World Cup.

The tango team ensured to qualify for the World Cup finals after being sat on the lead a comfortable lead for the rest of his rivals.

Besides Aguero and De Maria, the Tango loses its leader and the most prominent star Lionel Messi next to Gonzalo Higuain, Javier Mascherano and Fernando Gago due to injuries.

And Sabella will depend on the formation of new faces and replacements, and highlights them Mauro Aicarda and Erik Lamela in the attack and Mariano Andujar Goalkeepers instead of Sergio Romero whose mistakes caused in entering conceded several goals in recent games.

There is no alternative in front of Uruguay, the fifth-placed, for a win on home soil, as it adheres glimmer of hope to qualify directly for the World Cup and avoid Supplement in front of Jordan representative of Asia.

On the other hand, Liverpool and Uruguay football star striker Luis Suarez Said on Sunday that Uruguay "always suffers on the way to qualify for the World Cup." 

Suarez added "The Uruguay struggled to finish the playoffs in one of the top four because we are tired of suffering and struggle until the end."

The teams Uruguay and Argentina will meet on Tuesday in Montevideo, capital of Uruguay in the final round of the South American continent qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

See game was held in past time between the two teams:

Vladimir Petkovic Biography

He is a former football player and current head coach of Lazio football club in the Serie A. Vladimir Petkovic Swiss and Bosnian and was born in August 15, 1963.

He is known as Dottore in Italian which means the Doctor, and he speaks French, English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Spanish in addition he is multi-lingual (Serbo-Croatian).

In addition he has three passports Bosnian, Croatian, and Swiss.

Petkovic was born in Sarajevo and his parents were educational workers o he used to change his schools very much according to the movements of his parents.

Playing career of Vladimir Petkovic:

Petkovic played as midfielder with good technique, starting his playing career with llidza to move then to the youth team of FK Sarajevo when he was 15 years old. He achieved with his team the 1984-1985 Yugoslav First League.

Then Petkovic emigrated from Yugoslavia to Switzerland, where he joined FC Chur97, and after a good performance over one season he joined FC Sion which finished the season in the 3th place.

Petkovic joined Martigny-Sports before returned to his first Swiss club Chur. 

Managerial career of Vladimir Petkovic:

After his retiring, Petkovic became player- manager at AC Bellinzona in 1997. In 2004 He coached Lugano for little time to return back to Bellinzona leading them to the 2008 Swiss Cup final, but they lost in front of Basel and got the promotion to the Swiss Super league.

Then in 2008-2009 Petkovic signed with Young Boys club who led them to finish the league in the 2th place, and he stayed there for two seasons to be sacked then after the draw of the team with Luzern 1-1 in 2011.

In 2011, Petkovic moved to the Turkish league to sign with Samsunspor team but he resigned in 2012 after the relegation of the team to the second division.

After that he signed with Sion until 2011-2012 seasons to sign then in June 2, 2012 with Lazio in the Serie A, where they won under his leader the Coppa Italia in 2013.

Cuca Biography

His name is Alexi Stival and known as Cuca , he is a former football player and current football coach of Atletico Mineiro, he was born in June 7, 1963.

Playing career of Cuca:

Cuca was forward player , he played from 1984 until 1996 by starting in Santa Cruz-RS and ending his career with Chapecoense team. Cuca won with Gremio team the Copa do Brazil and the Cameonato Gaucho in 1989. Cuca played for the Brazil national team in one game against Paraguay in 1991.

Managerial career of Cuca:

Cuca managed a lot of team in his coaching career like Uberlandia, Avai, Brazil de Pelotas , Internacional de Lages, Gama, Criciuma, Parana, Goias, Sao Paulo, Gremio, Flamengo, Coritiba, Sao Caetano, Botafogo, Santos, Fluminese, Cruzeiro, and Atletico Mineiro.

When was Cuca the head coach of Botafogo team he won the Taca Rio twice in 2007 and 2008. And in after he was sacked as Santos head coach he signed with Fluminese in August 11, 2008. Then Cuca moved to Flamengo to be their head coach in December 12, 2008 to start his coaching in 2009 season. But he was sacked according to his poor results , to move then to Flumineses and again to be sacked in April 18, 2010 also according to his poor results.

Cuca Honours:

Cuca got a lot of honours as a player and also as a coach with many team he signed with so we will start from his first career as player with Gremio team where Cuca got the Copa do Brazil in 1989 and Campeonato Gaucho in 1989 and also in 1990. With Internacional , Cuca achieved Campeonato Gaucho in 1991, and thus he finished his honours as player.

Cuca as head coach could to achieved also a lot of honours starting from his coaching to the Botafogo team where he achieved Taca Rio in 2007, 2008. And then with Flamengo he achieved also Taca Rio in 2009 and Campeonato Carioca in 2009, then with Cruzeiro team he achieved Campeonato Mineiro in 2011. And finally Cuca achieved with Atletico Mineiro the Cameonato Mineiro in 2012-2013and Copa Libertadores in 2013.

Del Bosque: Spain team play comfortably in front of Belarus... the win approximates us of the World Cup

The Spanish coach Vicente Del Bosque acknowledged that his team did not play a large comfortably in front of Belarus, which was able to shut down areas in the game that brought them within the framework of competitions penultimate round of Group Nine qualifier for the 2014 Brazil World Cup.

Del Bosque Said, at a press conference following the win over Belarus with two -for-one Friday, "We are very happy about this victory , which brings us closer to qualifying for Brazil , but the goal which they score it hold things for us a little bit at the end, and raised our concern ."

In response to a question on how to face the teams close spaces such as Belarus, explained, “reimbursement from outside the region and the opening pitch of the parties as we tried to do today."

"It is true that this game is a version of the other meetings we have fought, with the exception face France in this group, where the rotation of teams to control the meeting, but we tried to overcome this issue, for example, Order b (Andres) Iniesta in the second half towards the party pitch, Pedro (Rodriguez) on the other side. "

Vicente Del Bosque justified his decision based on Victor Valdes goalkeeper Matador and dispensing Iker Casillas in a match Belarus qualifier for the 2014 World Cup that the latter "did not play only one game in the last five weeks."

Casillas remained the primary goalkeeper of the Spanish national team for several years, and helped his team to achieve an unprecedented achievement in win the European Nations Cup in 2008 and 2012 and the 2010 World Cup.

You can see the goals of the game here: