The German coach of the Iraqi national football team has left Iraq following the kidnappings of foreigners and said he would now have to consider his future. Bernd Stange told Deutsche Presse-Agentur he had been advised in writing by the German Foreign Ministry to leave Iraq "in view of the dramatically worsening security situation" in the country. A similar message was given to him verbally by the German ambassador in Baghdad, said Stange, who returned to Germany from Kuwait where the Iraqi Olympic team had played a friendly. "I won’t desert the people. But with a further worsening situation and lack of support I will have to think about my future in Iraq after the Asian Games in July," he said.
Good work, insurgents. Feh. Soccer is probably unIslamic anyway. |