{"id":436912,"date":"2023-05-29T10:49:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T14:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436912"},"modified":"2023-05-29T10:49:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T14:49:50","slug":"chelsea-confirm-pochettino-as-new-manager-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chelsea-confirm-pochettino-as-new-manager-on-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea confirm Pochettino as new manager on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mauricio Pochettino has officially been confirmed as the new Chelsea head-coach after months of speculation when he was pointed out as the most likely candidate.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Official, confirmed. Mauricio Pochettino has been appointed as new Chelsea head coach on contract until 2026. ???? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New chapter for Poch in England \u2014 deal valid starting from July 1. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hve6Hy0wEg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Hve6Hy0wEg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1663153415701118981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is a two-year contract with an option for one year extension. The Argentinian will start his work on July 1 as he will bring his own trusted team member Jesus Perez, Miguel d\u2019Agostino, goalkeeper coach Toni Jimenez plus son and fitness coach Sebastiano Pochettino.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Mauricio\u2019s experience, standards of excellence, leadership qualities and character will serve Chelsea Football Club well as we move forward. &#8216; said the board in a written statement<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He is a winning coach, who has worked at the highest levels, in multiple leagues and languages. His ethos, tactical approach and commitment to development all made him the exceptional candidate.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Pochettino has a huge task ahead of him as he has to transform an underperforming squad that could manage only 12th in the league despite spending over \u00a3600m in 2 transfer windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauricio Pochettino has officially been confirmed as the new Chelsea head-coach after months of speculation when he was pointed out as the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":436913,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,18964],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17902,19027],"acf":{"announce":"The two side finally put pen to paper","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436912"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436912"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}