An assessment report on Japan manager Philippe Troussier's performance will be submitted to Japan Football Association president Shunichiro Okano on Thursday morning, Kunishige Kamamoto, a vice president and chief of the JFA technical development department, said Wednesday.
In a 90-minute meeting held at JFA headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday afternoon, Kamamoto and six other members of the technical development department discussed Troussier's performance as Japan manager since the Frenchman took the helm in September 1998.
Top officials of the JFA technical development department initially planned to release Troussier as early as the end of this month and hire a replacement for one year while waiting for Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger to take over in June 2001.