{"id":471481,"date":"2023-11-30T17:29:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=471481"},"modified":"2023-11-30T17:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:29:27","slug":"balotelli-labels-brendan-rodgers-the-worst-coach-hes-ever-had","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/balotelli-labels-brendan-rodgers-the-worst-coach-hes-ever-had\/","title":{"rendered":"Balotelli labels Brendan Rodgers &#8216;the worst coach&#8217; he&#8217;s ever had"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Balotelli shared his opinion on former Liverpool boss Brendon Rodgers, labeling him both a &#8216;disaster&#8217; as a person and &#8216;the worst coach&#8217; he&#8217;s ever had.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;As a person he was a disaster.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Mario Balotelli brands Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers &#39;worst ever coach&#39; as he reopens Liverpool wounds<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcce<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DDgmn8sOLv\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/DDgmn8sOLv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YnodXsvI6j\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YnodXsvI6j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Football Scotland \u26bd\ufe0f\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc63\udb40\udc74\udb40\udc7f (@Football_Scot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Football_Scot\/status\/1730239544312603063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old was brought in by Rodgers to Liverpool in 2014, but torrid spell saw the Italian score just once in 16 league appearances and 4 goals overall across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards Balotelli was loaned to Milan and the two, understandably did not get on very well.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old has not reignited their past feud by lashing out at the ex-Liverpool boss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brendan Rodgers is the worst coach I have ever had. He was number one as far as training sessions were concerned, what with keeping possession of the ball and the small-sided games. But as a person he was a disaster.&#8221; Balotelli said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Balotelli shared his opinion on former Liverpool boss Brendon Rodgers, labeling him both a &#8216;disaster&#8217; as a person and &#8216;the worst coach&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":471482,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21779],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[22226,21780],"acf":{"announce":"The Italian didn't shy away from criticism when it came down to his former boss","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\/471481"}],"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=471481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471483,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471481\/revisions\/471483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471481"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=471481"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=471481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}