The club Bayer Leverkusen of the German Football Association yesterday, Wednesday, ending their contracts with the team's technical manager Michael Shakibah, after the poor results achieved by the team during the season ending, which led to the occupation ranked seventh among the local league teams, failed to qualify for the European championships in one of next season.

This has been confirmed by Wolfgang Holtztonier Executive Chairman of Leverkusen, saying: "After the recent findings of the team Balbonljuga, and the failure to achieve the goal in last season's team qualifying for the Cup is the European Union, agreed with the sports leadership to end the contract with Michael Shakibah immediately."

He added: "We have innumerable decisions about what we will do after the Shakibah played very well during the period he spent here, but there are many things that must be saying to develop a line under all things and making a new start with a new coach next season."

For his part, said director Rudy Fuller ball Bliverkuzn "It was a difficult decision to be taken."

Leverkusen did not give any hints about the new coach who will succeed Shakibah but it is believed that former coach Juergen Club of Mainz, one of the candidates for the succession of states and Shakibah.

For his part, Shakibah said: "I was very glad train Bayer Leverkusen and help in rebuilding the team, but I feel regret because we have not been able to achieve the expectations of team sports."

It should be noted that Shakibah former coach of the German team had been given command Leverkusen since October 2005, and was scheduled to end his contract with the team at the end of season in 2009.