德国人托普穆勒将在未来两年里成为格鲁吉亚国家足球队新任主教练。格鲁吉亚足协主席在25日举行的新闻发布会上透露，双方已经就合同细节达成协议，只等两个星期后正式签字。

    据路透社12月25日报道，现在的格鲁吉亚国家队暂时由“看守教练”达尔萨泽掌管。由于格鲁吉亚队在已经结束的2006年德国世界杯预选赛欧洲区小组赛第2小组的比赛中名列倒数第2，失去了进军世界杯的资格，“半路出家”担任格鲁吉亚队主教练的达尔萨泽随即选择了辞职。在此之前，格鲁吉亚队主教练、法国人吉雷塞由于带队在世界杯上的表现差强人意，在今年7月即被格鲁吉亚足协解职，而随后上任的达尔萨泽也没有挽救格鲁吉亚队。

    德国人托普穆勒今年54岁。2004年10月因球队成绩问题被德甲汉堡队解聘，自那时起一直赋闲在家。

    2002年是托普穆勒作为主教练最为辉煌的一年。在那一年，托普穆勒率领德甲勒沃库森队一路杀进了欧洲冠军联赛的决赛，夺得了德国杯冠军，并最终率队取得了联赛第2名的好成绩。为此托普穆勒当年被授予了德国最佳教练员称号。然而，辉煌过去之后便是衰败。托普穆勒在接下来的一个赛季带队成绩不理想，而这直接导致了他在2003年2月的“下课”。

    German Klaus Toppmoeller will be Georgia's national team coach for the next two years, the country's soccer chief said on Sunday.

    "He has agreed to become our coach," Nodar Akhalkatsy, president of the Georgian soccer federation, told a news conference, adding that the German would sign a formal contract within two weeks.

    Toppmoeller will replace caretaker coach Gaioz Darsadze, who quit following a poor World Cup qualifying campaign in which the Georgians finished second from bottom of European Group Two.

    Darsadze took over from Frenchman Alain Giresse who was sacked in July, midway through the qualifiers for next year's World Cup.

    Toppmoeller, 54, has been out of work since October 2004 when he was fired by Bundesliga club Hamburg SV after a string of poor results.

    He was named German Coach of the Year in 2002 after leading Bayer Leverkusen to the Champions League finals, the German Cup and second place in the Bundesliga. But the next season proved to be disappointing and Toppmoeller was sacked by Leverkusen in February 2003.