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Malta’s National Football Team Will Soon Get A New Manager

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Malta’s national football team will have to start looking for a new manager, after Pietro Ghedin announced he will not renew his contract after five years at the helm of the national side. 

This means Malta’s upcoming World Cup qualification games in October against Lithuania and Slovakia will be the last that Ghedin will manage.

Ghedin, a 64-year-old Italian, was appointed Malta’s manager in 2012, a role he had previously occupied between 1992 and 1995. Statistics show that Ghedin noticed up a 15.5% win percentage, higher than his three previous predecessors. However, Malta has continued to perform dismally in competitive matches and is, along with Liechtenstein, San Marino and Gibraltar, one of the only teams not to have notched up a single point in this World Cup qualifier campaign. Meanwhile, other typical minnows have performed admirably – Andorra has four points, Luxembourg has five, and the Faroe Islands has eight.

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After Malta’s recent defeats to England and Scotland, Maltese football critics started calling for Ghedin’s resignation, arguing his teams were far too defensive and rarely even ventured out of their own half.

Louis Agius, president of the South End Core supporters, summed the situation up perfectly.

”We are minnows in football and we will always be, a few years back we used to lose matches but we used to score, we where not afraid to play against stronger teams, of course we used to defend, but we also tried to react, attack, score goals even at risking of conceding more,” he said. 

Can a new manager improve Malta’s fortunes? 

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