Akira Nishino, who led the Japanese national soccer team to the last 16 at the FIFA World Cup in Russia as its coach, will step down from the post once his current term expires at the end of this month, it was learned Thursday.
Akira Nishino, who led the Japanese national soccer team to the last 16 at the FIFA World Cup in Russia as its coach, will step down from the post once his current term expires at the end of this month, it was learned Thursday.
At a press conference in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, Japan Football Association President Kozo Tashima said, „When the JFA asked Nishino to take up the post, both sides agreed that his tenure as coach would terminate upon the end of the World Cup, regardless of the team’s results.
