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LONDON. — Poor Zdravko Logarusic, one win in just 14 matches, and it’s all over before the end of his two-year contract.
Of course, he won’t grace the AFCON finals, in January next year.
It’s a tournament he has never graced and one where he hoped to make his debut, in charge of the Warriors, in January.
But, it won’t happen, after the Croatian gaffer was sacked by ZIFA yesterday, and someone will be in charge of the Warriors.
However, Loga isn’t walking alone in the Hall of Shame.
Here are some of the worst football managers in the history of the game:
STEVE WIGLEY
One win in 14 games in charge of Southampton, just like Loga in charge of the Warriors, is perhaps one of his worst claims to fame.
Wigley also wiggled out of promoting Aldershot Town for three straight years. He is one of only a handful never to manage a promotion with the club.
JIM FALLON
The Scottish manager led Dumbarton, Scotland’s fourth oldest club, to two successive relegations before losing his job.
Of course, no one knows who was worse, Fallon as a manager, or the club’s board for letting that happen, before giving him the sack.
DAVE BASSETT
Dave Bassett was decent in his time for Wimbledon, winning 144 games out of 303, but wherever he went, the term relegation seemed to magically become part of the equation.
He highlighted his shortcomings during an eight-month term at Leicester City, where he managed four wins, eight draws and 15 losses.
CLAUDE ANELKA
The older brother of Nicolas Anelka, Claude paid Raith Rovers £200,000 in order to be the club’s manager.
One draw and nine losses later, he was fired. Anelka would later admit that his ambitions for the club were grander than he knew how to manage.
HRISTO STOICHKOV
Bulgarian Hristo Stoichkov was a great player and rivaled some of the best in the game.
However, he was an awful manager, and his attitude drove players on the Bulgarian National team to refuse to play for their country under him.
LES REED
Charlton Athletic won one, lost five and drew another under Reed. He has yet to sit in another club’s hot seat since.
BRIAN KIDD
His longest time as a manager was for 44 games for Blackburn Rovers. How he even managed to get to that job is amazing considering in his previous tenures, with Barrow and Preston North End, he only won five out of a total of 23 games and lost and drew nine each.
OGIL OLSEN
He has had 18 spells as a manager. One club, Frigg Oslo FK, has hired and fired him four times.
His 2000 campaign with Wimbledon led them to the gates of relegation.
However, his sacking saw him leave before he could see it through and many will blame him for the club’s complete collapse.
LOTHAR MATTHAUS
As one of the finest players that Germany has ever produced, he finds it outrageous that he has never been given a coaching job by a Bundesliga club.
“Germany should be ashamed of the way it treats such an idol,” he once argued.
“I hope a German club will just trust me. And only then can you make a judgment: he is good or he is bad.”
Unfortunately for Matthaus, most clubs have already made up their minds on a coach who achieved nothing with either the Hungarian or Bulgarian national teams and who has a reputation for upsetting his employers.
Indeed, during his short, ill-fated stint in Brazil, Atletico Paranaense were left aghast after he faxed them his resignation, never bothered to return to pick up his personal belongings and left them to foot a €5,000 phone bill.
ALAN SHEARER
It came as quite a shock when he was appointed as manager of relegation-threatened Newcastle for the final eight games of the 2008-09 Premier League season.
By taking on his boyhood club, Shearer had let his heart rule his head, which, it transpired, was utterly devoid of ideas to arrest the Magpies’ slide into the Championship.
Indeed, the former Magpies No.9 managed to accrue just five points from a possible 24 and he has never coached since, preferring instead to pocket the £450,000 of taxpayers’ money he earns on an annual basis for providing the BBC with insightful comments such as “He’ll be disappointed with that” or “He’s got to hit the target from there”.
HRISTO STOICHKOV
A volatile character who once broke a college student’s leg during a friendly game for D.C. United, Hristo Stoichkov was never going to have the right temperament to cut it as a manager.
The former Bulgaria legend was nonetheless named national team boss in 2004 in the hope that he would reinvigorate a side that he had led to the 1994 World Cup semi-finals as a player.
However, Stoichkov’s time in charge was marred by arguments with officials and his own players — Stiliyan Petrov was one of two captains to quit the team after a row with the coach.
After failing to qualify for both the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2008, he resigned as coach.
Subsequent spells at Celta Vigo, Mamelodi Sundowns, Litex Lovech and CSKA Sofia proved just as unsuccessful.
GARY NEVILLE
Neville had carved out a reputation for himself as a studious and insightful pundit before he was appointed Valencia boss by business partner Peter Lim in December 2015.
He spoke no Spanish and had no previous experience as a head coach. When asked if he was ready to take, he replied, “We’ll find out.”
That process didn’t take long, with Neville sacked after winning just three of his 16 Liga games at the helm, during which they failed to keep a single clean sheet. — Sports Reporter/Bleacher Report/Goal.com.
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