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Not in the running: Trapattoni is not one of the contenders to take up the UAE job.

Yousef Al Serkal, the chairman of the UAE Football Association interim committee, has dismissed reports he has approached veteran Italian coach Giovanni Trapattoni about taking up the national job. unsecured loans

Trapattoni, 72, is the latest high-profile name to linked with the UAE job as the FA continue their search for a permanent successor to Srecko Katanec following his dismissal last September. bad credit loans

Emirati coach Abdullah Misfir is currently in charge of The Whites on an interim basis after Katanec was axed following back-to-back defeats to Kuwait and Lebanon which all but ended the UAE's chances of qualifying for the 2014 World Cup.

Al Serkal has been vocal about the FA's search for a long-term replacement in recent weeks and admitted in a recent interview that Argentine legend, Diego Maradona, currently in charge of Pro League side Al Wasl, was "one of the names" on their shortlist.

Trapattoni, though, is not one of them according to Al Serkal. “There’s no contact of any kind between us and Trapattoni. This is completely baseless,” he said.

Former Al Jazira boss Abel Braga and Dutch legend Marco Van Basten have also been mentioned as possible contenders although, Yusuf Abdullah, general secretary of the UAE FA, remained tight-lipped over those rumours last week. "We are aware of the rumours but cannot confirm any names at this time as the process is still ongoing," he told Sport360°

Dutchman Dick Advocaat, currently in charge of the Russia national team and who had a brief spell in charge of the UAE, is another who has been linked with the role. And "The Little General" certainly has his admirers, not least UAE talisman Ismail Matar who paid him a ringing endorsement recently.

"I was with Dick Advocaat for a short time, for me he is the best solution, but I don’t have the power to decide, it’s not my job. My job is to play football," said the skipper of Al Wahda at a Nike event last November.

But talk of UAE's alleged interest in Trapattoni is hardly surprising given the Italian's impressive CV in a management career spanning almost 40 years. 

Trapattoni has enjoyed enormous success with the likes of Juventus and Bayern Munich and holds the distinction of being one of only two coaches, alongside Austrian, Ernst Happel, to have won league titles, 10 in all, in four different countries (Italy, Germany, Portugal, and Austria).

The Italian, who also managed his country between 2000-2004, is currently the boss of the Republic of Ireland with whom he recently signed a two-year extension after guiding them to Euro 2012 qualification following a play-off win over Estonia.