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Cyprus Champion APOEL Signs Fourth Coach in 6 Months Manuel Jimenez

FILE: Soccer Football - Champions League - Real Madrid vs Apoel Nicosia - Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid, Spain - September 13, 2017 Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos scores their third goal REUTERS/Paul Hanna
FILE: Soccer Football - Champions League - Real Madrid vs Apoel Nicosia - Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid, Spain - September 13, 2017 Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos scores their third goal REUTERS/Paul Hanna
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Cyprus Champion APOEL Signs Fourth Coach in 6 Months Manuel Jimenez

FILE: Soccer Football - Champions League - Real Madrid vs Apoel Nicosia - Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid, Spain - September 13, 2017 Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos scores their third goal REUTERS/Paul Hanna
FILE: Soccer Football - Champions League - Real Madrid vs Apoel Nicosia - Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid, Spain - September 13, 2017 Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos scores their third goal REUTERS/Paul Hanna

Cyprus champion APOEL Nicosia signed its fourth coach in six months in hope of amping up the team’s lackluster play in the domestic championship in the Europa Conference League.

Manuel Jimenez of Spain was hired on a one-year contract to replace José Manuel Martins Dominguez, who arrived in late August, APOEL announced on Saturday, The AP reported.

The 60-year-old Jimenez, a former Sevilla defender and coach and Spain international, led AEK Athens to championship and cup wins in Greece.

APOEL is fifth in the Cypriot first division, six points adrift of league leader Paphos.

Portuguese native Dominguez was considered a known quantity by APOEL after serving as the assistant coach last season. The club pinned its hopes on Dominguez to size up the team's talent and quickly make the necessary adjustments to get the team to the top of the domestic league and earn Conference League wins.

But poor results in the domestic league and a 1-1 draw against Ireland's Shamrock Rovers, who scored in the second minute of injury time, sealed Dominguez's fate.

Dominguez replaced another Spaniard, David Gallego, who lasted only three months and who took over from Portuguese native Ricardo Sa Pinto, who left the club in May after steering the club to its first domestic championship title in five years.

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Toyota Returns to F1 with Haas Technical Partnership

In this photo provided by Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Chairman Aiko Toyoda, center, with Ayao Komatsu, left, Team Principal of MoneyGram Haas F1 Team and Tomoya Takahashi, President of GAZOO Racing Company, poses for a photo in Oyama, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024.(Toyota Motor Corporation via AP)
In this photo provided by Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Chairman Aiko Toyoda, center, with Ayao Komatsu, left, Team Principal of MoneyGram Haas F1 Team and Tomoya Takahashi, President of GAZOO Racing Company, poses for a photo in Oyama, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024.(Toyota Motor Corporation via AP)
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Toyota Returns to F1 with Haas Technical Partnership

In this photo provided by Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Chairman Aiko Toyoda, center, with Ayao Komatsu, left, Team Principal of MoneyGram Haas F1 Team and Tomoya Takahashi, President of GAZOO Racing Company, poses for a photo in Oyama, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024.(Toyota Motor Corporation via AP)
In this photo provided by Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Chairman Aiko Toyoda, center, with Ayao Komatsu, left, Team Principal of MoneyGram Haas F1 Team and Tomoya Takahashi, President of GAZOO Racing Company, poses for a photo in Oyama, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024.(Toyota Motor Corporation via AP)

The US-owned Haas Formula One team and Toyota announced a multi-year technical partnership on Friday in a move bringing Japan's biggest carmaker back to grand prix racing for the first time since 2009.
Haas will continue to use Ferrari power units after agreeing in July a contract extension to the end of 2028, Reuters reported.
Haas, whose team principal Ayao Komatsu is Japanese, are seventh in the constructors' world championship with 31 points going into their home US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, next week.
The partnership with Toyota Gazoo Racing, the carmaker's motorsport division, starts immediately with branding on the VF-24 cars driven by Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen at the Circuit of the Americas.
Toyota Gazoo Racing will become Haas's official technical partner with both parties sharing expertise, knowledge and resources. Toyota will provide design, technical and manufacturing services.
"To have a world leader in the automotive sector support and work alongside our organization, while seeking to develop and accelerate their own technical and engineering expertise -- it's simply a partnership with obvious benefits on both sides," said Komatsu in a statement.
"The ability to tap into the resources and knowledge base available at Toyota Gazoo Racing, while benefiting from their technical and manufacturing processes, will be instrumental in our own development and our clear desire to further increase our competitiveness in Formula One.
"In return we offer a platform for Toyota Gazoo Racing to fully utilize and subsequently advance their in-house engineering capabilities."
Komatsu thanked Ferrari and their team boss Fred Vasseur for supporting the establishment of the partnership, as well as Formula One boss and former Ferrari principal Stefano Domenicali.
Gazoo Racing president Tomoya Takahashi said the partnership also aimed to "cultivate drivers, engineers and mechanics.”
Toyota are active in the world rally championship and endurance racing and have a wind tunnel at their well-equipped headquarters in Cologne, Germany, that F1 championship leaders McLaren used until their own came on stream.
Haas will have an all-new lineup next year of experienced Frenchman Esteban Ocon and British rookie Oliver Bearman, the Ferrari reserve who has raced twice already this season as a stand-in at Ferrari and Haas.
Toyota entered Formula One with their own team in 2002 but never won a race despite having one of the sport's biggest budgets. They also provided Williams with engines from 2007 to 2009.
Domestic rivals Honda, who left Formula One in 2008 but returned as an engine maker in 2015, currently partner champions Red Bull. In 2026 they will be starting a new and exclusive relationship with Aston Martin.