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Spanish coach steps down

MADRID JULY 2. Spanish national soccer team coach Jose Antonio Camacho resigned on Tuesday, ten days after the side was eliminated from the World Cup.

``Life is made of stages and this one has finished for me,'' Camacho told a news conference. He said the main reason was his need for a more immediately demanding job.

``The Euro 2004 is two years away and the next World Cup another two. At 47, I need more challenges,'' he said. Camacho's contract was scheduled to run until the Euro 2004 championship in Portugal.

A perennial underachiever, Spain got off to its best World Cup start in half a century, winning its first four matches. The side fell on penalties against South Korea in the quarterfinals, but Camacho and the players blamed the defeat on poor refereeing after having two apparently legal goals disallowed during the match.

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