MICHAEL EDWARDS was appointed as Liverpool's sporting director. The 37-year-old is being promoted into a newly-created role as part of a restructuring of the football operations. Edwards will now lead the club’s overall football development, including player identification, acquisitions, sales and retention, as well as taking primary responsibility for reviewing and implementing improvements to the training ground environment and infrastructure. The move has been welcomed by Manager JÜRGEN KLOPP (Liverpool). ... KLAUS KINKEL, a former spy chief and later Germany's justice and foreign minister, "has been named the president of the newly created ethics commission" of the German Football Federation (DFB). He was elected at a federation congress. The commission "is part of the DFB's declared drive for more transparency and integrity" in an organization still "reeling from the fallout of a financial scandal" around the 2006 World Cup it hosted (AP, 11/4).
COACHES/MANAGERS: PAUL LAMBERT was appointed manager of League Championship side Wolverhampton Wanderers. The former Scottish int'l, who was previously in charge of five English clubs including Aston Villa and Blackburn Rovers, replaces Italian WALTER ZENGA, who was sacked last week after only 87 days in charge (REUTERS, 11/5). ... JIMMY FLOYD HASSELBAINK was sacked as manager of League Championship side Queens Park Rangers. The Dutchman, 44, was appointed in December last year "but won only 14 of his 47 matches in charge" (BBC, 11/5).
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