Veteran coach Åge Hareide has resigned from the Iceland national team ahead of the start of World Cup qualifying, and said he plans to retire.
Åge Hareide - The Canadian PressREYKJAVIK, Iceland — Veteran coach Åge Hareide has resigned from the Iceland national team ahead of the start of World Cup qualifying, and said he plans to retire.
“I have enjoyed my time with the Icelandic national team, but I believe that now is the right time to retire,” Hareide was quoted as saying in the federation statement.The next coach’s first games are against Kosovo in March in a promotion-relegation playoff in the Nations League where the winner advances to the second tier in the next edition of the tournament.
Iceland has played at one World Cup, in 2018 in Russia, becoming the smallest nation ever to qualify.
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