Sport in Brief

* Former Blackburn Rovers and Scotland captain Colin Hendry has been appointed manager of second division Clyde, the club’s Web site stated.

“I had options north and south of the border, as well as overseas, but I knew that this was the right choice,” Hendry said The 41-year-old also played for Rangers in a distinguished career, which included captaining Scotland in the 1998 World Cup finals in France. At Clyde, he replaces Joe Miller, who quit at the end of the season.Hendry managed English side Blackpool after retiring as a player in 2003 and was more recently an assistant coach at Boston United.”It’s doubly pleasing to get a chance to manage in my own country too,” he added.”There will undoubtedly be a lot of work to be done…but I understand the scale of the task in hand.”* Chelsea and Ghana midfielder Michael Essien has been targeted as a key member of a World All Star XI to play at celebrations to mark the 10th anniversary of the end of British rule in Hong Kong next month, local media reported yestrday on Tuesday.Essien has been invited to join a 20-strong squad to take on a joint Hong Kong-China team on July 1, a report in the South China Morning Post said.Germany’s Bayern Munich will play Brazilian club Sao Paulo in another match on the same day at Hong Kong Stadium.* Real Mallorca’s players have said Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon’s impromptu celebrations on the pitch at Real Zaragoza, have motivated them to try even harder in Sunday’s title decider in the Bernabeu.Real scored a last-minute equaliser to draw 2-2 against Zaragoza on Saturday to stay top of the table due to their superior head-to-head record over Barcelona, with one game left to play.A victory at home to mid-table Mallorca will guarantee them the Primera Liga title, whatever the outcome of Barca’s match at relegated Gimnastic.”They have written us off.Not so much the Real players but the media and the club’s president with his celebrations.It shows a lack of respect,” Mallorca’s Argentine midfielder Guillermo Pereyra was quoted as saying in the Spanish media.Another, Jonas Gutierrez, added: “They should be more cautious and wait and see what happens on Sunday.No one likes to have a title celebrated in their face, and it acts as an extra motivation to try and win the game.”* Guido Buchwald will take over as coach of German club Alemannia Aachen next season, returning to his homeland after leading the Urawa Reds to the Japanese double earlier this year before stepping down.A former World Cup winner with West Germany in 1990, Buchwald has signed a two-year contract with the second division side, replacing Michael Frontzeck, who quit after Aachen were relegated last season.The 46-year-old Buchwald played for VfB Stuttgart, Karlsruhe SC and 127 matches in Japan with Urawa Reds before coaching the club for three seasons.Aachen is his first coaching job in Germany.Nampa-ReutersAt Clyde, he replaces Joe Miller, who quit at the end of the season.Hendry managed English side Blackpool after retiring as a player in 2003 and was more recently an assistant coach at Boston United.”It’s doubly pleasing to get a chance to manage in my own country too,” he added.”There will undoubtedly be a lot of work to be done…but I understand the scale of the task in hand.”* Chelsea and Ghana midfielder Michael Essien has been targeted as a key member of a World All Star XI to play at celebrations to mark the 10th anniversary of the end of British rule in Hong Kong next month, local media reported yestrday on Tuesday.Essien has been invited to join a 20-strong squad to take on a joint Hong Kong-China team on July 1, a report in the South China Morning Post said.Germany’s Bayern Munich will play Brazilian club Sao Paulo in another match on the same day at Hong Kong Stadium.* Real Mallorca’s players have said Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon’s impromptu celebrations on the pitch at Real Zaragoza, have motivated them to try even harder in Sunday’s title decider in the Bernabeu.Real scored a last-minute equaliser to draw 2-2 against Zaragoza on Saturday to stay top of the table due to their superior head-to-head record over Barcelona, with one game left to play.A victory at home to mid-table Mallorca will guarantee them the Primera Liga title, whatever the outcome of Barca’s match at relegated Gimnastic.”They have written us off.Not so much the Real players but the media and the club’s president with his celebrations.It shows a lack of respect,” Mallorca’s Argentine midfielder Guillermo Pereyra was quoted as saying in the Spanish media.Another, Jonas Gutierrez, added: “They should be more cautious and wait and see what happens on Sunday.No one likes to have a title celebrated in their face, and it acts as an extra motivation to try and win the game.”* Guido Buchwald will take over as coach of German club Alemannia Aachen next season, returning to his homeland after leading the Urawa Reds to the Japanese double earlier this year before stepping down.A former World Cup winner with West Germany in 1990, Buchwald has signed a two-year contract with the second division side, replacing Michael Frontzeck, who quit after Aachen were relegated last season.The 46-year-old Buchwald played for VfB Stuttgart, Karlsruhe SC and 127 matches in Japan with Urawa Reds before coaching the club for three seasons.Aachen is his first coaching job in Germany.Nampa-Reuters