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German football coach Daum to go on trial (23.10.2001)
KOBLENZ,
Disgraced German football coach Christoph Daum is to go on trial Tuesday on drug charges, a year after being fired by the Bayer Leverkusen football club and the German Football Federation (DFB).
He may be stripped of his German coaching licence if found guilty of charges of cocaine possession, the DFB has said.
The 47-year-old faces up to five years in jail if found guilty of charges of buying cocaine on 63 occasions and of inciting others to buy drugs.
Daum had been due to take over as coach of the German national side before the scandal broke and was fired by his then Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen after returning a positive test which he himself had organised in a bid to clear his name.
The test results were announced on October 21 last year.
Daum is currently coaching Turkish first division side Besiktas.
The 121 pages of charges against Daum claim that he bought in 1999 and 2000 doses of 3-5
gramsof cocaine.
He is also charged with inciting trafficking of 100 grams of cocaine.
Daum was a star in the world of German football, entrusted with reviving the national team after its disastrous performance in the Euro 2000 tournament.
His methods were not always orthodox. He had for instance trained players by having them walk barefooted over shards of glass.
His motto was: "It is no disgrace to fall, but it is if you remain on the ground."p
He had been due to take over as German coach on June 1 this year, succeeding interim coach Rudi Voller who kept the job in the wake of the scandal.
His positive test for cocaine hit the German federation like a bomb and Daum fled the scandal to Florida in the United States, where he said he would get another test that would vindicate him as a non-cocaine user.
But he admitted last January that he had in fact consumed cocaine "occasionally, privately."
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