Former U.S. coach Bora Milutinovic has agreed to manage the Jamaican national team, federation president Crenston Boxhill said.
Milutinovic, the only man to coach five different teams at the World Cup, agreed to a four-year contract which will pay him US$1 million a year, Boxhill said. The announcement came on the same day Jamaica played Peru to a 1-1 draw in Kingston.
The 62-year-old Milutinovic replaces Carl Brown, who had been in charge for the past three months.
Besides Mexico (1986) and the United States (1994), Milutinovic also coached Costa Rica (1990), Nigeria (1998) and China (2002) at the World Cup.
All except China reached the second round of the tournament.
His last job as a coach of a national team was with Honduras, but that country failed to qualify for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
Jamaica, which qualified for the 1998 World Cup in France, was eliminated in the qualifying stages for the 2002 and 2006 championships.
© The Canadian Press, 2007
