MADRID, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Spanish Primera Liga club Osasuna on Tuesday confirmed Joaquin Caparros as the new first team coach after sacking Quique Martin on Monday.
Caparros has signed a two and a half year contract with the Pamplona based club, which is currently second from bottom of the Liga Santander with 7 points from 11 games and without a home win all season.
"The offer arrived on Monday night and I didn't take long to accept it, because I missed working as a coach," said Caparros, who has long CV (curriculum vitae) in Spain after having worked with clubs such as Sevilla, Athletic Club Bilbao, Deportivo la Coruna, Mallorca and Granada.
Meanwhile, Osasuna fans hung a banner in support of Martin during Tuesday's training session in protest at the sacking of a the former player, who in less than two years in charge at the club, had saved them from relegation to the third tier of Spanish football and led them to the Primera Liga the following campaign.
Many were also disappointed at the manner of the 60-year-old sacking via a phone call from the club's director of football while he was in Madrid attending an awards ceremony with most fans believing he deserved better.
PARIS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- French Ligue 1 champion Paris Saint-Germain confirmed Monday that Laurent Blanc is leaving Parc des Princes after three-year service.
"After three seasons at the head of the first team, Laurent Blanc left Paris Saint-Germain today," read a press release of Les Parisiens.
"In a respectful atmosphere, negotiations were completed on 27 June. An agreement, by common accord, preserves the interests of both parties," it added.
No financial details have been disclosed.
Blanc guided PSG to finish 31 points ahead of second-placed Lyon last season to roll his total collection to 11 trophies, including two national quadruples, but failed to win Champions League glory with a best result of reaching European quarterfinals in the last four years.
The former France captain and manager signed a two-year extension to his contract in February, committing himself to the Paris club until June 2018.
According to PSG, assistant coach Jean-Louis Gasset and head fitness trainer Philippe Lambert also leave the capital side as part of the agreement.
Also striker and talisman Zlatan Ibrahimovic is leaving the club when his contract expires on June 30, which is confirmed last month.
The four-straight-time French champion, whose only other two title-winning campaigns in the local top flight soccer league were respectively 22 and 30 years ago, declared that the club decides "to head in a new direction for the management of the first team" .
"It wishes to thank Laurent Blanc and expresses its gratitude for the work accomplished over the last three years by Laurent and his staff," it said in the announcement.
"As we embark on a new chapter in the development of the club, I would like to thank Laurent Blanc for everything he has achieved over the last three years, both in terms of the playing style and results," declared PSG chairman and CEO Nasser Al-Khelaifi.
"I wish him the best for his future challenges," said the Qatari.
LOS ANGELES Cheap Nike Air Max 2018 Black , March 4 (Xinhua) -- Los Angeles police are investigating whether a knife purportedly found on the property once owned by retired American football player O.J. Simpson is a piece of evidence or if the story of its discovery was "bogus from the get-go," a police captain said Friday.
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