Member LoginMember Login - User registration - Setup as front page - Add to favorites - Sitemap Former Spain coach Del Bosque to head the commission overseeing beleaguered soccer federation !

Former Spain coach Del Bosque to head the commission overseeing beleaguered soccer federation

Time:2024-05-22 10:46:43 source:Stellar Storyline news portal

MADRID (AP) — Former Spain coach Vicente del Bosque will lead the Spanish government’s commission overseeing the country’s soccer federation after a corruption probe targeted the current and former federation presidents.

Spain’s Higher Sports Council created the commission last week in an extraordinary measure for the coming months “in response to the crisis the institution is facing and in Spain’s national interests.”

The addition of Del Bosque may help the image of Spanish soccer after the government expressed concern for the reputational damage to the federation as the country is set to co-host the 2030 men’s World Cup with Portugal and Morocco. Spain is also hoping for success at this summer’s men’s European Championship and at the Paris Olympics.

“Del Bosque represents the best of our country in soccer,” Pilar Alegría, the minister representing Spain’s top sports authority, said at Tuesday’s announcement. “He is our world champion, our European champion. He is a beloved man.”

Related information
  • Microsoft's AI chatbot will remember everything you do on a PC
  • Two killed in shooting at Ferguson, Missouri, gas station; officer fired shots
  • China's modified Long March
  • Four dead in southwest China forest fires
  • Congo names third American in a foiled coup plot as mourners gather in Utah to remember plot leader
  • Coverage of China's basic medical insurance stable
  • The Paris Games' grandiose opening ceremony is being squeezed by security and transport issues
  • UN Security Council revisits Palestine's UN membership application
Recommended content
  • Thailand welcomes the return of trafficked antiquities from New York's Metropolitan Museum
  • Mideast countries call for restraint after Iran's retaliatory attack on Israel
  • Microsoft invests $1.5 billion in AI firm G42, overseen by UAE's national security adviser
  • Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 32,414
  • Australia as Bangladesh vow to boost trade as foreign ministers meet in Dhaka
  • Presidium of China's annual legislative session holds 3rd meeting