Coleman to call time on Wales job after 2018 WC

CARDIFF, United Kingdom: Chris Coleman, basking in the success of Wales’s run to the Euro 2016 semi-finals, said on Friday the upcoming 2018 World Cup campaign will be his last as manager.

The 46-year-old, who took Wales to their first finals since the 1958 World Cup and then oversaw a superb campaign only ended on Wednesday by a Cristiano Ronaldo-inspired Portugal, said he would have been in the job long enough.

“I am sure this will be my last campaign whether we qualify or not (for Russia),” said Coleman, whose contract runs to the end of the next World Cup, with his team playing their first qualifier at home to Moldova on September 5.