{"id":455327,"date":"2023-08-17T02:53:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T22:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455327"},"modified":"2023-08-17T02:53:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T22:53:25","slug":"deco-is-barcelonas-new-sporting-director","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/deco-is-barcelonas-new-sporting-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Deco is Barcelona\u2018s new sporting director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Barcelona player Deco will work again for Barcelona but that time not on the pitch, but as a sporting director.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f\ud83d\udc47 The words from our new sporting director, Deco: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TLsLd6qb5z\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TLsLd6qb5z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/1691847820901278183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Portugal international (45) has inked a 3-year deal with Barca.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian-born midfielder joined Barcelona from Benfica in 2004 and triumphed with La Liga 2 times in 4 campaigns, as he also won the Champions League with the Spanish giant in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The current Catalan side sporting director Mateu Alemany will leave his position when the summer transfer window closes at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>La Liga champions announced that Deco would be in charge of the philosophy of the team, and he will work daily with the head coach Xavi and his coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona added that they are planning a restructuring behind the scenes, as they will provide more information about that in the upcoming months. Ex-sporting director Jordi Cruyff left after the end of the past campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Barcelona player Deco will work again for Barcelona but that time not on the pitch, but as a sporting director. \ud83c\udf99\ufe0f\ud83d\udc47 The words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":455329,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224,20958,17969],"news_category":[137,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[17560,20959,508],"acf":{"announce":"The ex-midfielder was named the Catalan club's new sporting director.","video":["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\/455327"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455327"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455327"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}