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"It's always difficult to join the team in the middle of the season but at least, I shouldn't have any language barrier," Wortman said. "Our goal this season is to fight for the championship or at least for places in the UEFA Cup."
Dynamo have struggled since the start of the season despite their flamboyant owner Alexei Fedorychev spending almost $100 million on players since taking control of the club last year.
They are now in seventh place with 22 points from 16 matches and 16 points behind runaway leaders Lokomotiv Moscow following a 2-1 home defeat by Zenit St Petersburg on Sunday.
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Bordeaux sign Brazilian Menegazzo on loan
BORDEAUX, France, July 22 (Reuters) - Girondins Bordeaux have signed Brazilian Fernando Menegazzo from Italian Serie A club Siena on a one-year loan deal, the Ligue 1 side said on Friday.
A powerful defensive midfielder, Menegazzo is a former under-21 international who had been on loan at Serie B club Catania.
The 24-year-old is expected to play alongside French international Rio Mavuba in front of the Bordeaux defence.
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Desailly, Benarbia join Qatar Sports Club
DOHA, July 22 (Reuters) - Marcel Desailly, the former captain of France and Chelsea, has left Qatar champions Al Gharafa for first division rivals Qatar Sports Club (QSC).
The 37-year-old central defender scored six goals in 27 games to help Al Gharafa collect their fourth Qatar title last season.
Algerian midfielder Ali Benarbia, formerly of Manchester City, has also joined QSC from Qatar's Al Rayyan club.
"We are happy that these two fine players have agreed to join us. I think we now have a formidable line-up," said Sheikh Jassem bin Hamad Al Thani, QSC's director of football, on Friday.
Former Argentine World Cup strikers Claudio Caniggia and Gabriel Batistuta, who were playing for QSC and Al Arabi Sports Club respectively, announced their retirements towards the end of last season.
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Guus Hiddink factbox
SYDNEY, July 22 (Reuters) - Factbox on Guus Hiddink following his appointment as Australian national coach on Friday:
1946 - Born November 8 at Wisch, Netherlands
1967 - Begins professional playing career as a midfielder at De Graafschap
1970 - Joins PSV Eindhoven
1971 - Returns to De Graafschap
1976 - Begins two year spell in U.S with Washington Diplomats and San Jose Earthquakes.
1977 - Returns to the Netherlands where he spends three years at NEC Nijmegen
1981 - Completes playing career with a final year at De Graafschap
1982 - Begins coaching career at De Graafschap
1984 - Appointed assistant manager at PSV Eindhoven before becoming manager two years later.
1986-90 - PSV win Dutch league four times in a row and Dutch Cup three times.
1988 - Treble-winning year with European Cup and Dutch league and cup triumphs
1990 - Takes over as coach of Turkish club Fenerbahce.
1991 - Spends first of spells coaching in Spain with two years at Valencia.
1995 - Appointed Dutch national coach, leads the Netherlands to quarter-finals of Euro 96, followed by semi-finals of World Cup in France in 1998.
1998 - Returns to Spain to coach Real Madrid. Won World Club Cup but sacked in February 1999 after poor domestic form and after criticising the club's financial problems.
2000 - Spends one season at Real Betis
2001 - January - Becomes South Korea national coach.
2002 - Leads South Korea to semi-finals of World Cup, the best showing by an Asian team in the tournament's history.
2002 - Returns to Netherlands to manage PSV.
2005 - Guides PSV to League and Cup double and semi-finals of Champions League, where only late away goal in second leg against AC Milan halted their run.
- July 22 - named as new Australian coach, replacing Frank Farina.
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Robinho factbox
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 21 (Reuters) - Factbox on Brazilian forward Robinho, full name Robson de Souza, who is joining Real Madrid.
1984 - Born January 25, full name Robson de Souza, in Sao Vicente near Santos.
1996 - Discovered by Santos and wins a place in the club's junior divisions.
1999 - Pele sees Robinho taking part in a youth team training session and is reported as saying: "This lad takes me back to the start of my career."
2000 - Makes his professional debut for Santos at the age of 16 in a 3-1 win over arch-rivals Corinthians.
2002 - December: Santos beat Corinthians over the two-legged final to win the Brazilian championship. The most replayed moment of the tie is when Robinho performs seven successive stepovers as he provokes an opponent into giving away a penalty.
2003 - June: Santos reach the South American Libertadores Cup final for the first time in 40 years but lose to Argentina's Boca Juniors in the two-leg final.
2004 - January: Plays in the Brazil under-23 team which amazingly fails to qualify for the Athens Olympics after being edged out by unfancied Paraguay in the South American qualifying tournament.
September: Comes on as a substitute to make his first and so far only appearance for Brazil's senior team.
November: Robinho's mother Marina de Souza is kidnapped from a barbecue at a friend's house in Santos by two armed men. Robinho is sidelined by coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo.
December: Robinho's mother is released. Two days later, Robinho returns to the side and Santos beat Vasco da Gama 2-1 in their last game to clinch their second Brazilian championship in three years. Finishes as Santos joint top scorer with 21 goals.
January: Santos deny reports that Robinho will join Real Madrid. Santos president Marcelo Teixeira later advises Robinho to stay at Santos until the 2006 World Cup.
June: Part of Brazil squad for Confederations Cup. Turns in virtuoso performance in Brazil's 3-0 win over Greece scoring one, winning a penalty for a second, and ends up being voted Man of the Match.
June 29: Brazil beat Argentina 4-1 to win Confederations Cup. After the game Robinho says he wants to join Real Madrid.
July 1: Fails to turn up to training with Santos as club president Marcelo Teixeira refuses to sell the forward for less than the $50 million buyout clause stipulated in the player's contract which lasts till 2008. Teixeira accuses Real of making an illicit approach to the player.
July 21: Real agree to sign Robinho for $29 million.
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Malaga to sign Morales from Osasuna
MADRID, July 22 (Reuters) - Malaga have reached an agreement to sign Uruguay striker Richard Morales from Spanish Primera Liga rivals Osasuna.
Malaga said the 30-year-old would sign a three-year contract with the Andalucians on Monday before flying out to join the rest of the team who are in England preparing for the new season.
Morales, who joined Osasuna from Uruguayan side Nacional in 2002, was the King's Cup finalists' leading scorer with nine goals last season.
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Euro star Zagorakis returns to PAOK Salonika
July 21, 2005
SALONIKA, Greece (AFP) - Theo Zagorakis, who skippered Greece to the Euro 2004 title, has signed a two-year contract with his former PAOK Salonika team, the Greek first division squad announced.
Zagorakis, who was released by Bologna, was greeted at the airport upon his arrival here by 3,000 PAOK fans and another 5,000 supporters at the club's offices where he signed his contract.
"The reception was unbelievable and I thank the supporters for that. I always had in my mind that I would return to PAOK, which for me is the best team in Greece," Zagorakis said.
The 34-year-old has played a record 106 times for the Greek national team and was last a member of PAOK in 1998 when he left to join Leicester City in England.
He left Leicester in 2000 to join AEK Athens and last season played for Bologna in Italy
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Hiddink expected to be named Australia coach on Friday
SYDNEY, July 22 (Reuters) - Football Federation Australia (FFA) are expected to confirm PSV Eindhoven coach Guus Hiddink as their new national coach later on Friday.
FFA are holding a news conference at 0500 GMT (1500 local) on Friday to unveil the new coach. Media reports on Thursday in South Korea, where the Dutchman was with PSV for the Peace Cup pre-season tournament, said he was on his way to Sydney.
Hiddink, who guided co-hosts South Korea to the semi-finals of the 2002 World Cup, told reporters in South Korea on Wednesday that he would take over as Australia coach, if the Socceroos qualify for the 2006 World Cup finals.
"If Australia qualify for the 2006 World Cup, then I will take over (by) November," Hiddink said after PSV's 1-1 draw with Olympique Lyon at the tournament. "We just have to agree on some details before finalising (the deal)."
Hiddink said he would stay on at PSV as coach or in an advisory capacity until November.
Australia's next matches are the 2006 World Cup qualifiers against the Solomon Islands in September.
The Oceania group winners will play the fifth-placed South American team over two legs in November to qualify for the 2006 tournament in Germany.
FFA chief executive John O'Neill has previously said he is "99 percent sure" Hiddink would take over from Frank Farina, who stepped down last month after six years in charge.
Hiddink steered PSV Eindhoven to the Dutch league title and the semi-finals of the Champions League last season.
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Finland name Heliskoski as caretaker coach
HELSINKI, July 25 (Reuters) - Jyrki Heliskoski has been appointed caretaker coach of Finland for the rest of their 2006 World Cup qualifying campaign.
The 59-year-old Heliskoski replaces Antti Muurinen on a temporary basis, the Football Association of Finland said on its website on Monday.
Heliskoski has previously coached HJK Helsinki and several Finnish youth teams.
President Pekka Hamalainen said the appointment would give the Football Association of Finland time to search for a coach for the 2006-07 European Championship qualifying campaign.
Muurinen, 51, who had been in charge since 2000, was sacked after his team's hopes of reaching the World Cup finals were virtually ended by a 4-0 home defeat by the Netherlands last month.
Finland play their next qualifier against Macedonia on August 17. They are fourth in Group One, 13 points behind the Dutch and 12 adrift of the Czech Republic.
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Uzbekistan name Englishman Houghton as coach
TASHKENT, July 25 (Reuters) - Englishman Bobby Houghton has been named as coach of Uzbekistan's national team, signing a contract on Monday until the end of the year.
Houghton replaces Ravshan Khaidarov, who took over on a caretaker basis last month after German Heinz-Jurgen Geode was sacked following a string of poor results.
Uzbek officials said Houghton's contract could be extended through next year depending on the team's performances.
The 58-year-old Englishman has extensive coaching experience at club and international level in many parts of the world.
He has coached in the United States, China, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and guided Swedish club Malmo to the European Cup final in 1979.
Houghton leads the central Asian country for the first time in a World Cup qualifier against Kuwait on August 17.
Uzbekistan must beat Kuwait to set-up a two-legged Asian playoff against Bahrain, with the winners going on to face the fourth-placed team from the CONCACAF region for a spot in next year's finals in Germany.
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Espanyol to sign Argentina midfielder Zabaleta
MADRID, July 26 (Reuters) - Espanyol have reached an agreement to sign Argentina midfielder Pablo Zabaleta, the Primera Liga club said on Tuesday.
The 20-year-old, who moves from Argentina's San Lorenzo, will arrive in Barcelona on Wednesday to take a medical and sign a five-year contract.
The club will purchase all the rights to the player from an independent company.
Zabaleta captained Argentina to a 2-1 victory over Nigeria in the Under20 World Cup final on July 2.
Espanyol finished fifth in the league last season to earn a place in the UEFA Cup.
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Codjo takes over as coach of Benin
COTONOU, July 26 (Reuters) - Edme Codjo has been named as the new coach of Benin, making him the fifth man to hold the position since African group phase qualifiers began for the 2006 World Cup a little over a year ago.
The appointment was announced by the Benin Football Federation ahead of the west African country's next World Cup qualifier at home to Sudan on August 17.
Codjo, who has won just two of 19 games in charge of the national side in two previous stints at the helm, replaces Serge Deveze after the Frenchman's contract expired earlier this month.
Benin have also used Ghana's Cecil Jones Attuquayefio, Wabi Gomez and Frenchman Herve Revelli as coaches in the current World Cup qualifying campaign.
Benin are fifth in Group 3 on two points after seven games and cannot advance to next year's finals in Germany.
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Davids joins Tottenham on free transfer
LONDON, July 26 (Reuters) - Dutch international Edgar Davids has joined Tottenham Hotspur on a free transfer from Inter Milan, the Premier League club announced on Tuesday.
The 32-year-old midfielder, who wears distinctive eye glasses on the pitch as protection for glaucoma, will undergo a medical and agree personal terms later this week, the club said.