{"id":3667,"date":"2020-01-06T02:10:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T02:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2020-01-06T02:10:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T02:10:50","slug":"maradona-touted-for-venezuela-coaching-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/?p=3667","title":{"rendered":"Maradona touted for Venezuela coaching job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BUENOS AIRES &#8211; Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona has emerged as a possible candidate to replace Rafael Dudamel as head coach of Venezuela&#8217;s national team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 59-year-old has become a target of the Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF) after Dudamel resigned last week to take charge of Brazil&#8217;s Atletico Mineiro, according to Argentinian news portal Ole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maradona, who almost single-handedly guided Argentina to the 1986 World Cup title, is currently the manager of Argentinian first division side Gimnasia, where he is contracted until May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Multiple news reports in Argentina cited Maradona&#8217;s absence from Gimnasia&#8217;s first training sessions of the year as evidence of his possible departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FVF are hoping to appoint a new head coach before the South American zone qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup start in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUENOS AIRES &#8211; Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona has emerged as a possible candidate to replace Rafael Dudamel as head coach of Venezuela&#8217;s national team. The 59-year-old has become a target of the Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF) after Dudamel resigned last week to take charge of Brazil&#8217;s Atletico Mineiro, according to Argentinian news portal Ole. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/3669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}