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| Friday, May 31, 2002 12:08 EST |
Rotterdam grants coach's release
[Reuters]
AMSTERDAM -- Sparta Rotterdam coach Frank
Rijkaard has quit as coach after the club was relegated from the
Dutch first division.
"Frank Rijkaard told the Sparta board that he did not want
to complete his contract with Sparta. Sparta accepted this and
decided not to stand in his way," the club said on its Web site.
Sparta dropped out of the Dutch first division for the first
time since the introduction of professional soccer in the
Netherlands in 1956 during relegation playoffs earlier this
month.
Last week Rijkaard, a former Dutch national team coach,
received a death threat attached to a bullet. The letter
threatened him and his family if he did not part company with
the club immediately. The club said it would not yield to the
threat.
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