Club football will be going quiet for sixteen days, which sounds like a punishment but this is actually the most interesting international break in years. FIFA has merged the old September and October breaks into a single block running from 21 September to 6 October, so national teams play up to four matches instead of the usual two. The Premier League stopped after matchweek five and does not return until 10 October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is also the first football of any consequence since the World Cup<\/a>, and the summer that followed produced the biggest managerial clear-out international football has seen. Seventeen countries changed head coach. Several of the new appointments are among the most famous names in the sport, and almost all of them take charge of a competitive fixture for the first time in the next ten days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is what is worth staying in for.<\/p>\n\n\n\nInternational break is usually annoying – but this one looks good<\/h2>