（2006年6月19日2：28當地時間）

　　于爾根克林斯曼，對於他在世界盃後是否會繼續執教德國隊的問題，仍然對外界保密。他説：“我想看看本屆杯賽德國隊的結果，然後我會和家人商量，我是否會繼續擔任德國隊主教練。”

　　鏈結：http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=ap-wcupnotebook&prov=ap&type=lgns

　　原文：

　　Klinsmann won't discuss the future ... for now

　　By DAVID MORDKOFF, Associated Press Writer

　　June 19, 2006

　　BERLIN (AP) -- Juergen Klinsmann has kept the Germans guessing for months about whether he will remain as national team coach after the World Cup.

　　Klinsmann clouded the picture further Sunday by proposing his top assistant, Joachim Loew, as his successor. The two of them will sit down after the tournament to discuss the situation.

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　　"I want to see how this World Cup turns out, then I will pull back and then discuss with my family and my wife if I will continue," Klinsmann said.

　　The 1990 World Cup winner, who lives in California with his American wife Debbie, doesn't relish the demands on his private life that go along with coaching the three-time winners. Germans half-jokingly call it the country's second most important position behind Chancellor Angela Merkel's post.

　　Klinsmann, a first-time coach, credited Loew -- who coached at VfB Stuttgart and Austria Vienna -- with the tactics and training that helped Germany win its opening two group matches. That allayed German fears that the young team he built would be a disaster.

　　The 44-year-old Loew, the oldest on Klinsmann's staff, doesn't want a promotion just yet.

　　"I wish that we could keep working together just like this," Loew said. "Some our young players still need a couple of years to reach their peak."

　　Klinsmann may need a few more World Cup wins to retain his job, but at the moment the Germans are euphoric about this young team and modernization of the country's soccer. For years, they watched aging veterans fail to bring home another major trophy following the 1996 European Championship title.

　　OPENING OMENS

　　All seven teams that have clinched spots in the second round -- Germany, Ecuador, England, Argentina, Netherlands, and Brazil -- won their opening match. All six eliminated teams -- Iran, Ivory Coast, Serbia-Montenegro, Poland, Costa Rica and Paraguay -- lost their opener.

　　Of the 23 teams that won their opening match at the 2002 and 1998 World Cups, 20 advanced to the second round. Of the 23 teams that lost their opener, 22 failed to advance. Only Turkey in 2002 managed to lose its opener and reach the second round. The Turks lost to Brazil, tied Costa Rica, then beat China and advanced to the knockout round on goal difference. Once there, they excelled, and ended up finishing third.

　　INSIDE KNOWLEDGE

　　Tord Grip helped Sweden reach the semifinals of the 1994 World Cup. Now he might help get the Swedes ousted in the first round.

　　Grip was assistant manager of the Swedish national team from 1991-97, but now he is an assistant to England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson, a fellow Swede. Both are trying to lead England to its first win over Sweden in 11 games dating back to 1968 in a Group B match on Tuesday.

　　"It is time for us now to show we can beat them and break that long run," Grip told the Football Association's Web site on Sunday. "What that would mean in terms of Sweden's tournament, cannot be in my mind."

　　England only needs to tie the Swedes to win Group B. Sweden can advance with a tie but should push for a win -- a loss coupled with a Trinidad and Tobago win over eliminated Paraguay could send the Soca Warriors through to the next round.

　　"We have defended very well so far but now I think the players, knowing we have qualified, will come out and play a bit more," Grip said. "Often the first games are tight because no one wants to lose, but now we will express ourselves more, I think. We know we are through already now, so that is very good for us. We can be positive and relaxed."

　　LONG-DISTANCE MESSAGE

　　On the other side of the world from Germany there's a Portugal fan who is occupied by bigger worries than how the team does at the World Cup.

　　Xanana Gusmao, the president of former Portuguese colony East Timor, often attends league or international games when he's on a state visit to Lisbon. Portugal withdrew from the Southeast Asian country nearly 30 years ago.

　　In recent weeks Gusmao's country has been racked by violence after a group of soldiers mutinied and exposed deep political divisions.

　　On Sunday, at Gusmao's request, the Portuguese players unfurled a large banner in a public gesture designed to unite the East Timorese people. It read, in the Timorese language: "Timor Leste, klamar ida deit, povu ida deit" (East Timor, one soul, one country).

　　GIVEN THE HOOK

　　Former Indonesia dictator Suharto's second daughter, who surprised millions of Indonesians by anchoring TV coverage of the World Cup's opening matches, said she will not be appearing again after her performances were widely panned.

　　"I have never been a presenter, I have always been a housewife, so of course I was nervous," Titiek Suharto told Kompas daily's Sunday edition. "Please understand if I wasn't that good, I was worried about making mistakes."

　　Soccer fans were surprised to see Titiek anchoring the coverage on privately owned SCTV station when the tournament kicked off last week. She appeared nervous and unfamiliar with details of the game.

　　Titiek did not explain why SCTV, which paid millions of dollars for exclusive rights to the tournament, chose her as a presenter. Titiek, 46, said she was a commissioner for SCTV, but had no experience as a commentator.

　　Web sites and newspapers, aside from panning her performance, speculated that her appearance may have been part of an effort by the Suharto children to rehabilitate the image of their father, who many historians judge to be one of the 20th century's most brutal and corrupt dictators.

　　Like all of Suharto's six children, Titiek became rich during her father's 32-year reign, which ended in 1998 amid massive riots and pro-democracy protests.

　　Suharto himself avoided trial after doctors ruled he was too weak to appear in court.

　　Updated on Monday, Jun 19, 2006 2:28 am EDT

　　作者-岳東興-北京第二外國語學院-英語系

責編：佟杉杉