ONE BONUS OF football being played in every country in the world is that there are plenty of places for ex-pros to earn a wage staying involved in the game. Former Cork City hero George O’Callaghan is now the manager of Malaysian side Sabah and wanted to make a splash by signing a well-known player.
He was able to convince former Liverpool and Leeds winger El Hadji Diouf to sign for him and this newspaper headline captures the magnitude of the transfer well.
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According to the New Strait Times newspaper, O’Callaghan also has his eye on strikers Eamon Zayed and Roy O’Donovan. I wonder how many ‘MARQUEE SIGNING’ headlines we’ll see in Malaysian papers in the future.
It’s surprising the last line of Diouf’s Wikipedia intro didn’t scare O’Callaghan off.
‘During his nine-year international career, he scored 21 goals in 69 caps; he has also garnered a large amount of notoriety for a series of controversial incidents.’
