Israeli soccer coach Avram Grant, who found success at home and in Britain before falling off the sports map, has signed on with the Zambian national squad, the Football Association of Zambia announces.
Grant 67, arrived in the African country, according to Hebrew media reports.
He beat out dozens of other candidates, including some who coached the team in the past, Israel’s Channel 12 news reports.
Grant was Israel’s national soccer team soccer coach in 2002-2006 and took Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Tel Aviv to national league championships twice each.
He later took UK premier league soccer team Chelsea to the Premier League final, and worked with UK teams Portsmouth and West Ham.
His last coaching gig was in 2018 with Indian soccer team NorthEast United, after three years coaching Ghana’s national team, which he took to the finals of the African Nations cup before losing to Ivory Coast in 2015.
He was recently accused of sexually harassing several women, which FIFA has promised to investigate.
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