Foreign Football “Fear of adventure I never had.” With an understatement of format is Georges Leekens (69) in Iran with Tractor Sazi Tabriz are 26th trainersjob of his career started: “The voetbalpassie of the people here is enormous. The club, that is their life.”
Currently working Leekens with his new team a oefenkamp on the island of Kish, in the south of Iran on the Persian Gulf and not far from Qatar. The home of Tractor is in the extreme North, close to the border of Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. “It is also a minus-six degrees. While in Kish a nice twenty degrees is hot and we can better train.”
A glass of wine or beer to drink, I do not here. I drink water, orange juice, coffee and tea. Fantastic for the health. I find that the laws of the land should be respected.
Georges Leekens
The oefenkamp is ideal for his new group to get to know. Leekens: “I have a trainer in the staff that are still in New York has been, he is interpreting for me. We are now six days to the training. It is customize, but I went to the adventure is never out of the way. I have never been afraid of had. Before I signed, I wanted to do with the president speaking. He gave a very ambitious impression. Now we are going to something try to make.”
