Sidka agrees to coach Iran's Saipa

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PTV - German coach Wolfgang Sidka has announced his preliminary agreement to take charge of Iran's Saipa Football Club for the next season.

“Sidka has agreed to coach Saipa and will soon travel to Tehran to finalize the deal,” said Saipa's managing director, Hamid Sajjadi, on Friday.

“The club will sign a one-year contract with the German coach, who will bring a goalkeeping coach with himself,” he added.

Saipa is slated to hold a 10-day camp in the German city of Frankfort in late June.

Sidka, the former Bahrain boss, replaces Ali Daei, who left Saipa to take over the Iranian national soccer team.

The 54-year-old Sidka is a former association football manager. He led SV Werder Bremen to victory in the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1998 and coached Bahrain's national soccer team in 2005.

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So what happened to Sidka?

Is this another rerun of TM saga with various people being appointed and then cancelled? Will Littbarski remain in the job or he too will be replaced? If as is reported by AFC, he is only there to provide knowledge of Australian and Japanese football, then there is a chance that as soon as the Champion's League campaign is over he too will get the sack.

Another possibility is that he will be a lame duck manager since he will be accused that he knows nothing of Iranian football so he will be more like an advisor to someone behind the scenes who will pull the strings. Daei maybe?

I cannot see him lasting long.