Re: sport
Most important matches of the primera division (Spain) February 4 according to Lebanese time
20:00 Real Madrid - Levante
22:00 Osasuna - Barcelona
Australia court Klinsmann for World Cup: report SYDNEY (AFP) - Germany´s World Cup coach Jurgen Klinsmann has been sounded out by Australia to lead their 2010 World Cup campaign, according to reports.
Klinsmann, who led host nation Germany to third place at last year's World Cup, met Peter Lowy, son of Football Federation Australia chairman Frank Lowy, for lunch in Los Angeles last Tuesday, the Sun-Herald newspaper said.
The newspaper quoted one observer who said of the meeting: "Real estate was one subject they discussed but coaching opportunities with Australia were tossed around.
"The meeting was definitely business and not at all a social call."
FFA officials Sunday declined to confirm that the meeting had taken place and Klinsmann could not be immediately contacted for comment.
But the former German striker is known to favour coaching international football over taking on the day-to-day grind of club duties.
"I'm preparing myself for something new that might come along," Klinsmann said last week. "It could happen in a month or two, or a year or two.
"You have to be open to a lot of things. There is not an endlessly long list of job options at this level. The air is pretty thin up there.
"And if it's the right fit with the family and the right challenge, you go to the country where you might have once never thought you'd go."
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