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Cologne icon Lukas Podolski has ruled out an immediate return to the relegated Bundesliga club in a management function even though his name is frequently mentioned in calls for changes in the club leadership. “I’m currently a long way from taking on a position at FC in the short term,” Podolski told Friday’s Bild paper. Podolski joined Cologne as a 10-year-old and played for the first team 2003-2006 and 2009-2012, including one year in the second tier. The 2014 World Cup winner is still playing, at Gornik Zabrze in his birth country of Poland which he left with his parents for the Cologne reg…

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