Rene Simoes being considered for Bermudan TD

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Revolution coach Steve Nicol and assistant Paul Mariner watched eight games in Argentina recently and will return to scouting college games next week. Mariner is being considered for the $125,000-a-year technical director post by the Bermuda Football Association. Other candidates include former Liverpool star John Barnes and former Jamaica coach Rene Simoes.

Found this on the Boston Globe website.

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Revolution coach Steve Nicol and assistant Paul Mariner watched eight games in Argentina recently and will return to scouting college games next week. Mariner is being considered for the $125,000-a-year technical director post by the Bermuda Football Association. Other candidates include former Liverpool star John Barnes and former Jamaica coach Rene Simoes.

Found this on the Boston Globe website.

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Here's the article - Nov 27

Cup road bumpy for England

By Frank Dell'Apa, Globe Staff | November 27, 2007
Marcel Desailly, a Ghana-born member of France's 1998 World Cup-winning team, could barely stifle the laughter at the World Cup preliminary draw in Durban, South Africa, Sunday. Desailly understood the irony after he had pulled the ping-pong ball signifying that Croatia would be grouped with England in the qualifying round for the 2010 finals in South Africa, only a few days after the Croats had eliminated England in the European Championships.


The reminder of England's failure continued the debate about how the national team could produce such unremarkable results compared with the success of Britain's club teams. England has won just one major international tournament (the 1966 World Cup) while English clubs have won 28 club titles in Europe. The obvious answer is that the Premiership is overloaded with foreign players - only 74 Englishmen are listed as starters - thus stunting domestic development.


Whatever the reason, England now has to prepare for a difficult qualifying campaign in Group 6 (which also includes Ukraine) while Football Association officials are searching for a successor to coach Steve McClaren, who received a $1.4 million payoff after being fired following the 3-2 loss to Croatia last Wednesday. The nine European group winners advance to the finals, and the next eight best records play off for four more places. In most groups, England could figure on finishing at least in second place, but Group 6 will be especially challenging since one highly regarded country (either Croatia, England, or Ukraine) will be eliminated before reaching the playoff stage.


The draw not only set up the qualifying groups, it was a symbolic kickoff toward the first African World Cup. Both the opener and final will be played in Johannesburg (June 11-July 11, 2010). A total of 199 countries will be involved in qualifying, which has already started in Oceania and South America. Africa (six teams) will have its largest contingent ever, with five qualifiers and host South Africa.


No European team has won the World Cup outside Europe. Only Argentina (Mexico '86) and Brazil (Sweden '58, US '94, and Japan-Korea 2002) have won the World Cup outside their own continent.
Defending champion Italy will be in Group 8 with Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Ireland, and Montenegro. France, runner-up last year, will be in Group 7 with Austria, Faroe Islands, Lithuania, Romania, and Serbia.


Coaches who have either turned down offers or said they are uninterested in coaching England include Marcello Lippi (ex-Italy) and Luiz Felipe Scolari (Portugal). England would like to wait for Dutchman Guus Hiddink, who is contracted to Russia through the '08 European Championships. And Hiddink is not likely relishing a contract extension, since the Russians are with Germany in Group 4 in World Cup qualifying. But England cannot wait until next summer to name a coach.


The US will begin qualifying in June against either Barbados or Dominica. Barbados was a surprise team in advancing to the semifinal group round of 2002 qualifying. But the US easily eliminated the Bajans, who had two players red-carded late in the first half of a 7-0 loss at Foxboro Stadium Aug. 16, 2000. If the US wins this home-and-away matchup, it will likely be grouped with Cuba, Guatemala, and Trinidad & Tobago in the next round.
The top three CONCACAF teams will advance to the World Cup finals and the fourth-place team will meet the No. 5 South American nation.
Paraguay has been the standout team in South American qualifying, leading the group with 10 points (3-0-1), ahead of Argentina (3-1-0, 9 points) and Brazil and Colombia (both 2-0-2, 8).
Nicol back to work

Revolution coach Steve Nicol and assistant Paul Mariner watched eight games in Argentina recently and will return to scouting college games next week. Mariner is being considered for the $125,000-a-year technical director post by the Bermuda Football Association. Other candidates include former Liverpool star John Barnes and former Jamaica coach Rene Simoes.

Though the Revolution lost in the MLS Cup final, the team's regular-season success (a second-place finish in the Eastern Conference) should guarantee a spot in the Superliga, an MLS-Mexican League competition in July, and the inaugural CONCACAF Champions League, to start in August.
Growing pains for MSSL

The Revolution were seeded into the quarterfinals of the US Open Cup on the way to winning the event this year. But challengers are already lining up for next year, among them Boston Olympiakos, which captured the US Amateur Cup this year and has started the qualifying rounds for the '08 Open Cup. Boston Olympiakos could be a model club for a proposed elite division of the Massachusetts State Soccer League, which would have teams in the youth, open, and veterans (over 30, over 40, over 50) categories.

The New England Over The Hill Soccer League has 206 teams and more than 4,500 players. But several teams are considering breaking away into a competitive division of the MSSL, which currently has two open divisions consisting of 23 teams, according to league administrator Luigi Taranto. The NEOTHSL started with six teams in the late 1970s, undergoing gradual growth to 60 teams before the 1994 World Cup. Now, the growth could be leveling off, since two divisions (the league has a total of 16 divisions in four age-group categories) have been eliminated.


"The more teams you have, the harder it is to control the caliber of competition," Taranto said.

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And here is another saying Bermuda have already hired someone for the $125K.

http://www.reggaeboyzsc.com/forum1/s...ard+University