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Croatian giants Split as Vulic is appointed coach
ZAGREB, May 3 (AFP)
Croat football powerhouses Hajduk Split faced a financial headache Friday after it was reported four former or current internationals had resigned from its board and were demanding their investment of 1.5 million euros (1.3 million dollars) back.
The demands by the quartet, Alijosa Asanovic, Igor Stimac, Slaven Bilic and Alen Boksic, came the same day that Hajduk announced Zoran Vulic was to replace Bilic as manager the Sportske Novosti daily reported.
Asanovic, who like Stimac and Bilic were part of the Croatian team that reached the 1998 World Cup final semi-finals, claimed that all four - all former Hajduk players - of them had been taken for a ride.
"We entered the club for no other reason but out of love and with only one wish - to make Hajduk a European power," Asanovic told the newspaper.
"But, evidently others look upon us as a bank which is constantly giving money ... I am sorry, we have started several projects and now everything has collapsed," he added.
Vulic, 41 and who is expected to sign a contract next week, agreed to take the job after Bilic announced in April he would quit his job as coach at the end of the season.
Locke would be proud.
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Croatian giants Split as Vulic is appointed coach
ZAGREB, May 3 (AFP)
Croat football powerhouses Hajduk Split faced a financial headache Friday after it was reported four former or current internationals had resigned from its board and were demanding their investment of 1.5 million euros (1.3 million dollars) back.
The demands by the quartet, Alijosa Asanovic, Igor Stimac, Slaven Bilic and Alen Boksic, came the same day that Hajduk announced Zoran Vulic was to replace Bilic as manager the Sportske Novosti daily reported.
Asanovic, who like Stimac and Bilic were part of the Croatian team that reached the 1998 World Cup final semi-finals, claimed that all four - all former Hajduk players - of them had been taken for a ride.
"We entered the club for no other reason but out of love and with only one wish - to make Hajduk a European power," Asanovic told the newspaper.
"But, evidently others look upon us as a bank which is constantly giving money ... I am sorry, we have started several projects and now everything has collapsed," he added.
Vulic, 41 and who is expected to sign a contract next week, agreed to take the job after Bilic announced in April he would quit his job as coach at the end of the season.
Locke would be proud.
www.dailysoccer.com
