Soccer-Improving defence gives Marinos boss Holland increased confidence


FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Euro 2024 - Final - England Training - Blankenhain, Germany - July 13, 2024 England assistant manager Steve Holland during training REUTERS/Lee Smith/File Photo

YOKOHAMA (Reuters) - Former England assistant manager Steve Holland will lead his Yokohama F Marinos side into the quarter-finals of the Asian Champions League Elite next month increasingly confident the Japanese club can compete with Saudi Arabia's cash-rich elite.

Holland, who worked as Gareth Southgate's number two for eight years, was appointed by the J-League outfit in December and has had to reconstruct a team that leaked goals last year, first under Harry Kewell and then interim boss John Hutchinson.

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