St Petersburg: Ivorian football midfielder Yaya Toure, who announced his retirement earlier in the day, is likely to start his coaching career at a club from Russia, his agent Dmitry Selyuk told Sputnik on Friday.
Toure’s knowledge and experience is so huge that any team will be glad to invite him for the role of a coach, the agent added.
Throughout his career, Toure played in the Belgium’s Beveren, Ukraine’s Metallurg Donetsk, Monaco, Spain’s Barcelona, Greece’s Olympiacos and England’s Manchester City.
Ivorian was capped over 100 times in the national team, winning the African Nations Cup in 2015. Toure was recognized four times as the African Footballer of the Year. He speaks Russian, which he learned during his one-and-a-half year stint in Donetsk. (UNI)
