Belgian Paul Put named as new Jordan coach

AMMAN: Belgian Paul Put was on Tuesday named as the new coach of the Jordanian national football team in place of local Ahmed Abdelkader.
Put, 59, signed a one-year deal, according to the Jordanian football federation.
The Belgian previously coached Lokeren and Lierse in his homeland before being banned for three years over a match-fixing scandal that intruded into his family life with death threats.
World football’s governing body FIFA did not extend the ban worldwide, allowing Put to head for Africa where he coached Gambia and then Burkina Faso, taking the latter to the final of the Africa Cup of Nations in 2013.