Head coach
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Tuvalu appoint Robert Maaskant for a year, and Marcel finds the deal reasonable
Robert Maaskant, 57, is the new head coach of Tuvalu, following Foppe de Haan in 2011 and Leen Looijen in 2013. His first tournament is the Four Nations Cup in January.
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Zidane scraps the Clairefontaine carpet, Louise wonders where players arrive now
New France head coach after Didier Deschamps’s fourteen years in charge, Zinédine Zidane has scrapped Clairefontaine’s “blue carpet” and closed the players’ arrival to photographers and journalists.
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Van Bommel switches to Spanish for Fernandez-Pardo, Marcel misses the silent dressing room
Mark van Bommel speaks Dutch to the Red Devils squad, English one-to-one with French speakers like Diego Moreira and Roméo Lavia, and Spanish with Matias Fernandez-Pardo. He calls the arrangement “absolutely no…