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Russians want foreign coach

MOSCOW July 2. Nearly 80 percent of Russians want a foreign coach to run the national soccer team after the country's poor showing at the World Cup.

In a national poll conducted by the Sport-Express newspaper at the weekend, 79.6 per cent of the 14,000 Russians said they were in favour of a foreigner replacing Oleg Romantsev after their team was eliminated in the first round.

After beating Tunisia 2-0, the Russians lost their next two games, 1-0 to Japan and 3-2 to Belgium. Their failure to progress from what was regarded as one of the easiest groups prompted the immediate resignation of Romantsev.

In the poll, former Italy goalkeeper Dino Zoff, who led his country to World Cup triumph in 1982, received 29.2 percent of the votes. He was followed by former Lazio and AC Milan coach Alberto Zaccheroni and Dane Richard Moller-Nielsen, who quit as coach of the Israeli national team earlier this year.

— Reuters

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