{"id":457296,"date":"2023-08-29T02:09:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T22:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=457296"},"modified":"2023-08-29T02:09:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T22:09:23","slug":"john-herdman-becomes-toronto-fcs-new-manager","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/john-herdman-becomes-toronto-fcs-new-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"John Herdman becomes Toronto FC&#8217;s new manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto FC decided to hire John Herdman as the club\u2019s new boss as John will resign as Canada\u2019s manager instantly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A new era in Toronto. \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6<\/p>\n<p>John Herdman takes over for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TorontoFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TorontoFC<\/a> after leading <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadaSoccerEN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CanadaSoccerEN<\/a> to its first World Cup in 36 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bbLaDTDjP0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bbLaDTDjP0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Major League Soccer (@MLS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLS\/status\/1696242033684353146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Herdman will ink a multiyear deal with the MLS club from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>John left Canada Soccer after 1<sup>st<\/sup> being hired in 2011 to become Canada\u2019s women\u2019s national team manager. He had success as he led the nation to 2 Olympic bronze medals.<\/p>\n<p>After that, he became Canada&#8217;s men\u2019s coach, qualifying the country for its 1<sup>st<\/sup> World Cup since 1986.<\/p>\n<p>However, scandals about money in Canada Soccer and problems in the dressing room convinced Herman to leave his national manager job and accept the offer from Toronto FC.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian side will play 9 more games until the end of the current campaign, and while they can still clinch the playoffs, they are in the last place in the East Conference with only 19 points after 26 fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian MLS club dismissed manager and sporting director Bob Bradley at the end of June and has been looking for a permanent replacement since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto FC decided to hire John Herdman as the club\u2019s new boss as John will resign as Canada\u2019s manager instantly. A new era [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":457297,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17528,16867],"news_category":[17676,14235],"gn_keywords":[21181,18563,714],"acf":{"announce":"He will leave as Canada\u2019s men\u2019s national team manager right away.","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\/457296"}],"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=457296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457301,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457296\/revisions\/457301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457296"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=457296"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=457296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}