{"id":51396,"date":"2023-01-09T22:54:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T18:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=51396"},"modified":"2023-01-09T22:54:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T18:54:16","slug":"portugal-hires-martinez-as-its-new-national-team-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2023\/01\/09\/portugal-hires-martinez-as-its-new-national-team-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal hires Mart\u00ednez as its new national team coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Portugal hired former Belgium coach Roberto Mart\u00ednez to lead its national team on Monday, Associated Press (AP) reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Spaniard replaces Fernando Santos, who quit in December after Portugal\u2019s elimination against Morocco in the quarter-finals of the World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Santos left amid the controversy of benching Cristiano Ronaldo in the knockout stage of the tournament in Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mart\u00ednez ended his six-year stint with Belgium after the team\u2019s disappointing group-stage elimination at the World Cup, when he again failed to lead the nation\u2019s golden generation to a triumph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He arrives to a Portugal team filled with talented players like Bernardo Silva, Bruno Fernandes and Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal hired former Belgium coach Roberto Mart\u00ednez to lead its national team on Monday, Associated Press (AP) reported. The Spaniard replaces Fernando Santos, who quit in December after Portugal\u2019s elimination against Morocco in the quarter-finals of the World Cup. Santos left amid the controversy of benching Cristiano Ronaldo in the knockout stage of the tournament &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51398,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51396\/revisions\/51398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}