LEA ERKUSEN Germany. Nov I" B.iver Leverkusen coach Rudi Voller < oulinued al

Thursday Hi.it he will slay mi as coach "I Hu German national side iitilil the 2002 Woild < up finals in Japan and South Korea. reports AIT

Al Hir same confereiu e \ oiler also said that his < uncut reign as < oa. h o| ih,- German Btmc/rsfir/a side will end alter Sundav - man h against Franklin I

Vollm who hands Hie reins of Lcverkiisen om t io former German naiion.il coach Beni Vogi s will however lemain a sports din < mi ai Leverkusen until tfi.it < oufi.v I expires in 2003

The solution is absolutely perhx I and 1 hope Io have as iinu h sun ess as | hav had betore. said \olhi who m his new post will continue m I>e assisted bv loruiei Doitmund coat h Mt< hael Skibhe

Vollet was initially handed a temporary brief as national co.k h alter Germany s dismal display m Hie 2000 European t hampi.mships m Belgium and tie Netherlands in June and

A dcs|H i.ue German Football Fedciaiioii iDFBl. alter much soul sc,H< lung, then found Lite man He v hoped would remedy the malaise Bayer Leverkusen coach ( hiisiophe Damn.

Bin instead ol unearthing a gem of a < oa< It who would take them < onv memgh to the world showpiece m two veins lime, revelations about Daum's drug habits lotted the bottom out ol theii plans.

Daum, due m lake up his permanent national coaching post in June 2001 tested positive for cocaine alter speculation in the Germ.in press forced him to prove his detractors wrong by volunteering a hair sample to a laboratory'.

He then took refuge m the United States at the behest of Leverkusen's management.