{"id":480065,"date":"2024-03-11T11:37:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480065"},"modified":"2024-03-11T11:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T15:37:07","slug":"lecce-dismisses-head-coach-daversa-for-headbutting","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lecce-dismisses-head-coach-daversa-for-headbutting\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecce dismisses head coach D&#8217;Aversa for headbutting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lecce have dismissed boss Roberto D&#8217;Aversa after he head-butted an opposing footballer at the end of their defeat vs. Hellas Verona in the past weekend, the Italian team shared today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 \ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc05\ud835\udc05\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc02\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0b | Lecce have sacked manager Roberto D&#8217;Aversa. \ud83d\udc4b<\/p>\n<p>Was due to scenes after game vs Hellas Verona yesterday. He headbutted striker Thomas Henry. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v6B2ujIfR2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/v6B2ujIfR2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EuroFoot (@eurofootcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurofootcom\/status\/1767154557291741678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Roberto (48) head-butted Verona forward Thomas Henry in the aftermath of their 1-0 home loss yesterday. The team announced later on Sunday that they condemn the incident and have now fired the head coach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;After the episodes that took place at the end of the Lecce &#8211; Verona game, U.S. Lecce shares that it has dismissed manager Roberto D&#8217;Aversa of his duties,&#8221; Lecce shared with the media today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The manager was shown the red card along with Thomas. After that, the head coach, who joined the Serie A side in June 2023, apologized while claiming his footballers had been continually provoked towards the end of the match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Lecce have triumphed in 5 of their last 28 Serie A matches. They are 15<sup>th<\/sup> in the league with 25 points, 1 point above the relegation zone.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udfe1\ud83d\udd34 Serie A side Lecce have decided to sack the manager Roberto d\u2019Aversa after he headbutted Verona striker Thomas Henry yesterday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ipAzOcbYbq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ipAzOcbYbq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1767110797950419273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecce have dismissed boss Roberto D&#8217;Aversa after he head-butted an opposing footballer at the end of their defeat vs. Hellas Verona in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":480066,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19123,17860],"news_category":[138,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[19124,17861,3531],"acf":{"announce":"The Serie A club sacked the manager for headbutting an opposition footballer.","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\/480065"}],"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=480065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480068,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480065\/revisions\/480068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480065"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480065"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}