{"id":483492,"date":"2024-05-25T13:37:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T17:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483492"},"modified":"2024-05-25T13:37:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T17:37:38","slug":"rooney-returns-as-plymouths-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rooney-returns-as-plymouths-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooney returns as Plymouth&#8217;s head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England and the Red Devils legend Wayne Rooney has been hired as head coach of English 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-tier Championship team Plymouth Argyle, the side shared today.<\/p>\n<p>The job is Wayne\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> managerial appointment since being dismissed by Birmingham City at the beginning of the year after a disappointing 15-match spell in charge of the team. Birmingham would go on to be relegated, and Wayne now joins the club that finished just 1 place above them, in 20<sup>th<\/sup>, after escaping relegation in the last possible moment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u270d\ufe0f We are delighted to announce the appointment of Wayne Rooney as our new Head Coach.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Argyle, Wayne.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pafc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#pafc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Plymouth Argyle FC (@Argyle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Argyle\/status\/1794341440144744740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Becoming the head coach at Plymouth Argyle feels like the excellent next step in my career, and I would like to express my gratitude to the Chairman and Board for trusting me to manage the club,&#8221; Wayne announced after his appointment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a fantastic chance to be part of a great project. I can\u2019t wait to help to build a squad of footballers to play expansive football &#8212; and to bring joy to our supporters while watching us on the pitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England and the Red Devils legend Wayne Rooney has been hired as head coach of English 2nd-tier Championship team Plymouth Argyle, the side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483493,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22949,21695],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[22951,22952,21696],"acf":{"announce":"Wayne returns to management in the Championship.","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\/483492"}],"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=483492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483502,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483492\/revisions\/483502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483492"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483492"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}