BERLIN, June 30 (Reuters) - Bayer Leverkusen coach Christoph Daum said on Friday he expected a decision this weekend over whether he could become the next trainer of the German national team after the side's ignominious exit from Euro 2000.

Daum told the Bild daily he expected a decision on Sunday at a crisis meeting of German soccer chiefs and said a solution was possible over his club contract, which runs for another year.

Asked whether he wanted to become national coach, Daum said: 'Independent of current events, that was always my goal...But I am not in a position to act. I have a contract with Leverkusen until 2001 and will stick to it.'

The German Football Association (DFB) said in a statement Daum's Leverkusen bosses would take part in the weekend talks, which would also include officials from Bayern Munich, whose coach Ottmar Hitzfeld is the other favourite for the job vacated by Erich Ribbeck's resignation after failing at Euro 2000.

'In the course of this week the discussions about finding a successor to Erich Ribbeck have made progress, but it remains uncertain whether it will be possible to make an announcement on Sunday,' the DFB said.

Daum said it was possible that he could work for both club and country for an interim period, and pointed out that he had turned down an offer to extend his Leverkusen contract put to him by manager Reiner Calmund last weekend.

'Everything is possible. But the DFB has to decide.'

Daum, 46, is a motivational specialist who took Leverkusen to within an inch of the Bundesliga title last season before being pipped by Bayern Munich on goal difference on the last day of the season.

The two clubs have been wrangling over who should sacrifice their coach to save the national game after Ribbeck quit over Germany's worst showing in a major tournament in half a century.

Bayern President Franz Beckenbauer has refused, however, to release coach Hitzfeld - although media specualate that Beckenbauer's deputy Karl-Heinz Rummenigge could play a key management role at the DFB.

DFB vice-president Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder said DFB chiefs would meet bosses of the two top clubs on Sunday. 'We have to reach a quick solution,' he told Bild.