Ahli Club administration has announced that it has reached a final agreement with Norwegian manager Trond Johan Sollied to coach the football team. The replacement followed the ending of the services of Brazilian coach Sergio Farias who failed to change the face of the team despite his last continental achievement with Korean Pohang Steelers. Sollied started his career as a manager in 1992 where he was player and then a manager in the Norwegian First Division. Sollied coached a number of teams such as Rosenberg BK where he served as the assistant manager under legendary coach Nils Arne Eggen in the 1997 season. That year Rosenberg won the championship. During the 1998 season Eggen took a year off, placing Sollied in the manager's seat. With him in charge, Rosenberg – once again – won the league and qualified for the UEFA Champions League. In 1999, Sollied left Norway for Belgium. His first team there was KAA Gent. In 2000, he was offered a job at Club Brugge and stayed there until 2005. In six seasons, Sollied won everything, 2 championships (2003 and 2005), 2 cups (2002, 2004) and 2 Super cups (2002, 2004). After the Norwegian national coach Nils Johan Semb retired in 2003, Sollied was mentioned as a replacement, but Sollied stated that he was only interested if he could combine the national team with his club position. This was not accepted by the Norwegian Football Association and Age Hareide, Rosenborg coach at that time, became the new national manager. In 2005, Sollied was officially selected to coach Olympiacos. In his debut season, he won the league title and the Greek cup, and was ranked ninth in Europe on UEFA's list of top coaches in 2006. He also won league titles in three different countries. In June 2007 K.A.A. Gent confirmed the return. In 2008, he moved to Dutch club SC Heerenveen. After which he took over MKE Ankara. Kim with Al-Shabab South Korea's World Cup midfielder Kim Nam-il has joined Saudi Arabian club Al-Shabab from Russia's Tom Tomsk, media reports said in Souh Korea Monday. The well-travelled 33-year-old, who has played 96 times for his country, will move to Riyadh on a transfer worth 500 million won ($407,000), according to the Korea Times. Kim, dubbed the “vacuum cleaner” for his tackling and his ability to suck up errant passes, helped South Korea reach the last 16 of the World Cup in South Africa. He shot to fame during his country's run to the 2002 World Cup semifinals when a flood of endorsement offers and outpouring of affection from Korea's female population led to the media coining the term “Kim Nam-il syndrome”. Kim has also previously played in the Netherlands and Japan's J
