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GORDON STRACHAN has been appointed Scotland manager.

Strachan was staying tight-lipped last night but a deal with the SFA to replace Craig Levein has finally been thrashed out.

The former Celtic manager will now be in charge for the friendly against Estonia at Pittodrie on February 6.

The SFA is embroiled in a legal dispute with Levein over his departure from the national hotseat in November.

In the meantime, Strachan will be asked to put a respectable gloss on a Brazil 2014 World Cup qualification campaign that’s started with draws against Serbia and Macedonia and has also brought a couple of defeats against Wales and Belgium.

The man who won three titles with Celtic and twice took them to the last 16 of the Champions League will, however, be hoping to pull off a miraculous recovery and lead Scotland to a play-off place for the World Cup finals in South America.

Strachan is already in the SFA’s Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 2007 after winning 50 caps for his country and playing in two World Cup finals in Spain and Mexico in 1982 and 1986 respectively.

Now the television pundit will leave the studio lights behind and head straight to the front line of football to become his country’s figurehead.

Record Sport revealed back in November – on the day Levein was sacked – that Strachan was interested in filling the position.