Javier Clemente pulls out as Iran's football coach
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Iran on Tuesday said Spanish trainer Javier Clemente rejected an offer to coach the national football team after a row over his insistence on living at home in Spain rather than in the Islamic republic.
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Fiorentina have axed coach Emiliano Mondonico, the Serie A club announced on their official website on Monday. Mondonico&#39;s final game in charge was Sunday&#39;s 2-2 draw at Udinese, a result which left the club just two points above the relegation places.
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Real Madrid coach Jose Antonio Camacho has resigned after the club&#39;s poor start to the season, according to reports in Spain. Cadena Ser radio said Camacho had told Real chairman Florentino Perez he was quitting
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Carlos Alberto Parreira quit as coach of Brazil on Wednesday, three weeks after his team was eliminated by France in the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
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Iran closed a newspaper and detained its chief editor and cartoonist Tuesday for publishing a cartoon that sparked riots by ethnic Azeris, the first such move since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power last year.
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Juergen Klinsmann withdrew yesterday from consideration as coach of the United States soccer team after several months of talks failed to lead to an agreement.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Former Ajax coach Louis van Gaal has resigned from his position as the club&#39;s technical trainer after just a year in the job, Ajax announced after they beat Maccabi Tel Aviv 3-0 in a Champions League match.
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Ali Larijani, who has fronted Tehran's efforts to defuse an atomic row with the West, has resigned as chief nuclear negotiator, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.
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The men&#39;s national football (soccer) team in Argentina has a new coach. The South American nation&#39;s football association announced Thursday that Jose Pekerman will lead the team.
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Iran will pull out of the nuclear  Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and develop its atomic program  in secret if Western nations threaten or put pressure on  Tehran, a senior Iran diplomat was quoted as saying on  Wednesday.
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The Kansas City Chiefs have fired offensive coordinator Mike Solari and three other assistant coaches following a 4-12 season.
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Joe Kernan resigns as Armagh manager in the wake of the Orchard team's exit from the championship.
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Marcelo Bielsa resigns as coach of Argentina less than a month after steering the country to Olympic gold.
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In a move considered to be a blow to the hardline politics of Iran's ruling party, the former president Hashemi Rafsanjani was today chosen to head the powerful clerical body that has responsibility over the country's supreme leader.
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Iran reprimands Danish ambassador after newspapers in Denmark reprint  controversial cartoon of prophet Muhammad, Iranian state TV reports
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The Marseilles president, Christophe Bouchet, resigned yesterday while former Japan manager Philippe Troussier was in &quot;advanced talks&quot; to replace Jose Anigo as the French club&#39;s coach.
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Sports officials have dismissed the head of Iran&#039;s soccer federation over the country&#039;s poor showing at the World Cup, state-run television reported.