World Cup coaches in SA for workshop

More than half of the 2010 World Cup coaches will arrive at Sun City today to attend the team workshop.

The list of 19 includes Ghana's Milovan Rajevac, England's Fabio Capello, France's Raymond Domenech, and Dunga, coach of last year's Confederations Cup winner, Brazil.

The other coaches are Rabah Saadane (Algeria), Pim Verbeek (Australia), Vahid Halilhodzic (Ivory Coast), Morten Olsen (Denmark), Joachim Low (Germany) Marcello Lippi (Italy), Bert van Marwijk (Netherlands), Ricki Herbert (New Zealand), Carlos Queiroz (Portugal), Radomir Antic (Serbia), Matjaz Kek (Slovenia), Vincente del Bosque (Spain), Ottmar Hitzfeld (Switzerland) and Oscar Tabarez (Uruguay).

Bafana Bafana's Carlos Alberto Parreira will also take part before heading back to Johannesburg to announce his squad for Wednesday's international friendly against Namibia at the Moses Mabhida stadium, in Durban.

Fifa made attempts to have all 32 coaches at the workshop but some, such as Mexico's Javier Aguirre, decided to send their assistants and team managers instead. But each team will have a representative at the two-day event.

Among the speakers today will be Fifa's general secretary Jerome Valcke, its executive director of competitions Jim Brown, and the local organising committee's chief executive Danny Jordaan.

According to Fifa, the team workshop is crucial for head coaches, team managers and general secretaries, and mandatory for the officials, including media officers, security managers and team doctors. Each delegation consists of up to eight members.