ARMENIA DROPS COACH
Ottawa Sun, Canada
AP
April 6 2006
YEREVAN, Armenia – Armenia’s soccer federation said Thursday it would
not extend coach Henk Wisman’s contract and would appoint a replacement
to lead the team in qualifying for the 2008 European Championship.
“The soccer federation of Armenia refused to extend its contract
with Henk Wisman, head coach of the national team,” Araik Manukian,
spokesman for the federation, told The Associated Press.
Wisman, from the Netherlands, took over in May 2005 and was contracted
until the end of the World Cup qualifying last October, with an option
to extend his term for another two years.
Wisman replaced France’s Bernard Casoni and was Armenia’s fourth
foreign coach in three years, but Armenia lost five matches under
him and finished next-to-last-last in its World Cup qualifying group.