BREAKING NEWS: Miron Bleiberg quits as Gold Coast United coach
The charismatic Israeli was suspended by United last Thursday after comments he made regarding the club’s decision to hand 17-year-old debutant Mitch Cooper the captaincy for Friday’s 1-0 loss to Melbourne Heart. Speculation had raged over the weekend about Bleiberg’s future at the club, with owner Clive Palmer doing little to ease the tumult by branding the A-League “a joke” to The Sunday Mail. “I’ll not be back,” Bleiberg told The Herald Sun.
“Clive can take my job, but he took away my dignity. No one can take away my dignity. “If Clive wanted to hurt me, he succeeded. If he didn’t mean to hurt me, he made a mistake. “According to him, he made the right decision to suspend me. From my point of view, it wasn’t. “I respect his decision, but there is no doubt in my mind that the punishment to suspend a coach for a thing like this, after all what we had gone through together, didn’t fit the crime.” “I think it’s pretty sad,” Adelaide United coach John Kosmina said on Fox Sports when told of the sacking, adding that Clive Palmer’s quotes on the A-League were “disrespectful”.
Miron Bleiberg has reportedly quit as coach of A-League bottom-side Gold Coast United.
