Next year's awards will be held in Berlin, with Valetta in Malta confirmed as the host city for the 2012 event.

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Other names that have come to the fore including former Reading boss Steve Coppell who quit last month, Jordi Cruyff, the current assistant manager at Maltese side Valetta and outgoing Real Sociedad coach Juan Lillo.

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In November 1988, he became the third West Indian to take a hat-trick in a Test match, dismissing Tony Dodemaide with the last ball of the first innings, and Mike Valetta and Graeme Wood with the first two balls of the second.

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