The Ivory Coast's soccer federation has written to world governing body FIFA asking for a World Cup qualifier against the Congo to be postponed. The match is due to be played on April 8, but Ivory Coast want the game put back to May 20. We want to play Tunisia first,' he said, FIFA proposed the match against Congo be played in early April after the Central African country agreed to resume its World Cup qualifying campaign earlier this month. Congo had pulled out of the competition after defeats in their first two qualifying group matches, citing financial problems. Tunisia lead group D with 10 points, followed by Ivory Coast with seven points.
Congo are bottom of the group.
In Europe, Rudi Voeller was officially the German head coach until the 2002 World Cup. Voeller was appointed on a caretaker basis after Erich Ribbeck stepped down following Germany's exit form Euro 2000 in the group stage. The popular former World Cup striker then accepted to stay on until 2002 after Christoph Daum, who had been due to take over this year, was discarded following a positive drugs test. Had Daum not been ruled out, Wednesday's 4-2 win over Greece would have been Voeller's last game in charge. Under Voeller's guidance, Germany won their first four World Cup qualifiers and are now ideally placed to make it to the 2002 finals.