{"id":456818,"date":"2023-08-28T02:14:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T22:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456818"},"modified":"2023-08-28T02:14:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T22:14:08","slug":"roberto-mancini-becomes-new-saudi-arabia-manager","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/roberto-mancini-becomes-new-saudi-arabia-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Mancini becomes new Saudi Arabia manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Mancini will lead the Saudi Arabia men\u2019s national team as he took the job 2 weeks after his resignation as Italy manager.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">OFFICIAL: Roberto Mancini has been named manager of Saudi Arabia. \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde6<\/p>\n<p>He will reportedly be paid $27 million annually on a four-year contract. \ud83d\udcb0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yewPh9xTH7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yewPh9xTH7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Sports Golazo \u26bd\ufe0f (@CBSSportsGolazo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSportsGolazo\/status\/1695889280177000855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mancini won the Euro 2020 with Italy, defeating the host nation England on penalties at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>The Euro champions went on a world record 37-match undefeated run but didn\u2019t qualify for the World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Roberto inked a deal until 2027. His debut as Saudi Arabia boss will be on September 8<sup>th<\/sup> vs. Costa Rica at St James&#8217; Park, Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this is a perfect job for me, to experience this game in a new country, especially with the growing popularity of football in Asia,&#8221; the Italian head coach shared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The presence of elite players in the Saudi Pro League shows the potential for growth in the world football scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Italian won Manchester City&#8217;s 1<sup>st<\/sup> Premier League title in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Mancini will lead the Saudi Arabia men\u2019s national team as he took the job 2 weeks after his resignation as Italy manager. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":456819,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18374,20050],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[18441,20051],"acf":{"announce":"The Italian was named Saudi Arabia's new head coach.","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\/456818"}],"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=456818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456828,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456818\/revisions\/456828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456818"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456818"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}