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International roundup PSV coach Hiddink unmoved by death threatsPosted: Tuesday October 22, 2002 9:51 AMUpdated: Tuesday October 22, 2002 12:09 PM BERLIN (Reuters) -- PSV Eindhoven coach Guus Hiddink says he will continue living in the Netherlands despite receiving death threats. "You should not bow to such threats," said Hiddink, who returned to the Dutch club after taking co-hosts South Korea to the semifinals of this year's World Cup. "First of all (after the threats) I wanted to go to Spain and play golf every day but then this group would have reached its goal," the Dutchman told the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau in an interview released Tuesday. Hiddink has received two death threats over the last few weeks. The first, a letter with two bullets in it, was a warning he could be shot if he had as much success with PSV as he had with South Korea's national side. The second had similar contents. "Sometimes I became nervous when I heard steps behind me," he added. Hiddink, whose team play away to German side Borussia Dortmund in a Champions League group A match later Tuesday, said he had received no new threats. "Life is back to normal," he said. "I like the normal everyday life in Holland. I didn't want to stay up on my cloud in Korea. I'd rather live in reality." Paulo Cesar out for a monthPARIS (Reuters) -- Paris St Germain's Brazilian defender Paulo Cesar will be out of action for a month with a twisted knee, the club said Tuesday. The 24-year-old international was forced to leave the pitch in Saturday's first division game against Troyes. With one player sent off and having used all its substitutes, PSG finished two men down but still won 2-1. Paulo Cesar has been one of the great successes in the PSG squad since the beginning of the season when he joined the club. Paris police chief Jean-Paul Proust has warned that Paris St Germain home games might have to be staged away from the Parc des Princes in a bid to curb crowd trouble. Paris St Germain have suffered persistent problems from hooliganism in the past, particularly during matches against Olympique Marseille, its French first division opponent Saturday. "If a climate of violence should go on, we would be forced to stop playing some games at the Parc des Princes," Proust told daily Liberation on Tuesday. "To transfer matches is not my wish, but things cannot go on like this forever." In a match last November between Paris St Germain and Marseille at the Parc des Princes, 42 people were injured and 22 detained following crowd trouble outside the Parisian stadium. "In England, crowds have changed since games are being played in the afternoon. It's more a family crowd, with kids, youngsters and women," added Proust. "We're going to try to do the same but I'm not saying everything will take place quietly. "It's normal to have police at a football game but to be forced to bring in nearly 2,000 is highly disproportionate." Dumitrescu takes over at Romania's BacauBUCHAREST (Reuters) -- Former Romania international Ilie Dumitrescu was appointed coach of first division team FCM Bacau on Tuesday, just 10 days after quitting as trainer of the national under-21 team. "Dumitrescu was named the new coach... to replace Dumitru Dumitriu who quit in an amicable separation," club president Gheorghe Chivorchian told Reuters by telephone from the eastern Romanian city of Bacau. The club began the season with title ambitions but are one spot off the bottom of the 16-team table with five points from eight matches. Dumitrescu, who has coached first division teams Otelul Galati and Brasov as well as Alki Larnaca of Cyprus in the last two seasons, was a key member of Romania's "golden generation" which qualified for the 1990 and 1994 World Cup finals and for the 1996 European championships. His fans best remember him for two spectacular goals which sank Argentina in the 1994 World Cup in the United States. Dumitrescu, who scored 20 goals in 62 matches for Romania, moved from Steaua Bucharest to English Premier League Tottenham Hotspur in 1994 and West Ham United a year later. He also played for Sevilla in Spain and Atlanta Ciudad de Mexico before retiring aged 30. Bobic on his way back to Germany team -- VoellerBERLIN (Reuters) -- Hanover 96 striker Fredi Bobic could make it back to the national team if he maintains his early-season form, Germany coach Rudi Voeller said. "His scoring rate is fantastic," Voeller said of the 30-year-old Bobic, who has scored six goals in five Bundesliga games for his new club. "A striker who scores that many goals is always an option." Bobic, who scored twice in 19 internationals but who has not played for his country since 1998, joined promoted Hanover 96 from German champion Borussia Dortmund last month after a loan to English Premier League side Bolton Wanderers. "I met Fredi in Hanover and I told him that if he kept scoring, he would be back with us," Voeller told the Bild daily. Voeller also named three young strikers, Kevin Kuranyi from VfB Stuttgart, TSV 1860 Munich's Benjamin Lauth and Jermaine Jones from second division Eintracht Frankfurt, as possible German internationals in the near future. The World Cup runner-up, whose attack has looked jaded in recent outings, play the Netherlands in a friendly on November 20 in Gelsenkirchen. Turkey complete 2003 Confederations Cup lineupZURICH (Reuters) -- World Cup semifinalist Turkey has accepted FIFA's invitation to play in next year's Confederations Cup, completing the lineup for the eight-team competition in France. The eight teams are France, the European champion and Confederations Cup holder, World Cup winners Brazil, Colombia, Cameroon, the United States, New Zealand, Japan and Turkey. The competition will be held from June 18 to 29 at stadiums in three French cities -- Lyon (Stade Gerland), Paris (Parc des Princes and Stade de France) and Saint-Etienne (Stade Geoffroy-Guichard). Austrian struggler Admira sacks coachVIENNA (Reuters) -- Austrian first division side Admira Moedling sacked its coach Walter Knaller on Tuesday in the league's seventh change of trainer this season. Co-trainer Johann Krejcirik will take over on an interim basis, a club spokeswoman said. Admira, based in the Vienna suburb of Moedling, is languishing at the bottom of the league, 18 points behind leader Austria Vienna. Basler fined for saying referee deserved punchBERLIN (Reuters) -- Kaiserslautern midfielder Mario Basler was fined 6,000 euros (US$5,854) Tuesday for saying the referee deserved to be punched in the face for his performance in Saturday's 1-0 defeat at Bayer Leverkusen. The German Football Association (DFB) said that the former Bayern Munich and Germany player would be suspended if he repeated the offence. Basler, who was fined for insulting a match official earlier this year, blasted referee Uwe Kemmling's performance in the German first division match. "When we lose we get a bashing and Kemmling really deserves a punch in the face today," Basler told ZDF television Saturday. Basler was booked for protesting that Leverkusen striker Thomas Brdaric was offside when he scored the only goal of the match on 19 minutes.
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