Syrian coach Bernd Stange was sacked

The Syrian Football Federation has sacked German coach Bernd Stange after losing 2-0 to Jordan on Thursday in the second phase of the 2019 Asian Cup groups.

"The Syrian Arab Football Federation (SFA) has decided to fire its national coach, Bernd Stange, and to appoint a national coach to replace Ibrahim," the union wrote on its official Facebook page.

The federation announced that Ibrahim would join the Friday training team in preparation for his next crucial match against Australia on the 15th of this month, which will make "Eagles Qaseen" a difficult task to integrate into the role of the 16 after being frozen to a point after two defeat today and draw an opening with Palestine without goals.

Stangh was the second coach to be named after the Serbian coach Milovan Rajevac after a tough defeat against India 1-4 in the first round.

"I was responsible for the game, but the loss concerns us all," he said, explaining that Jordan was better "because of the speed of the counter-attacks."

"We started the game well," added the coach, who took over from the Eagles of Kasion's training in February. "We were then shocked by the first goal, which came from a bad pbad from us, and I have nothing to say about our players." Beside that, he has some players. a high level of competence. "

"I think the Jordanian team is superior to us because of the increased confidence it has gained after overtaking Australia."

Aged 70, he is at the top of East Germany (1984-1988), Oman (2001), Iraq (2002-2004), Belarus (2007-2011) and Singapore (2013-206).

Fajr Ibrahim led the first World Cup playoff team before his dismissal in 2016, as well as Syrian police clubs, Dahuk and the Iraqi port.