Adriaanse fired by FC Twente

 　　THE HAGUE, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Co Adriaanse was fired as coach of FC Twente, the Enschede based club announced on Tuesday afternoon.

　　Adriaanse worked for Twente since the beginning of this season as successor of Michel Preud'homme. His contract would expire in the middle of 2012.

　　FC Twente did not perform badly under his reign¹, but the relationship between Adriaanse and some players and staff was not good. His team is currently third in the Eredivisie and qualified² for the last 32 of the Europa League.

　　Twente chairman Joop Munsterman called the lack of synergy between Adriaanse and the technical staff and players as the reason for the dismissal.

　　"We had great expectations when Co came here last summer," Munsterman said during a press conference. "We made a mistake. All parties had totally different expectations about the cooperation."

　　Steve McClaren is the main candidate to succeed Adriaanse and might join the squad³ on their trip to the training camp in Maspalomas on Friday.

　　"But we still have a few things to sort out," Munsterman said. "A final agreement is not there yet."

　　McClaren was coach at FC Twente between 2008 and 2010 and in his last year he captured the league title. He was fired last October at English club Nottingham Forest.

1 reign   

n.统治时期，统治，支配，盛行；v.占优势

参考例句：

• The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
• The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。

2 qualified   

adj.合格的，有资格的，胜任的，有限制的

参考例句：

• He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
• We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。

3 squad   

n.班，小队，小团体；vt.把…编成班或小组

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• The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
• A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。