{"id":33798,"date":"2014-07-23T08:07:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T08:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=33798"},"modified":"2014-07-23T09:06:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T09:06:43","slug":"dunga-named-as-brazil-coach-for-the-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=33798","title":{"rendered":"Dunga named as Brazil coach for the second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"headline\">\n<p>Brazil have named former player Dunga as their new coach for the second time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dunga was the captain of Brazil&#8217;s 1994 World Cup-winning team and coached the national team from 2006 to 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am immensely happy to be back,&#8221; said the 50-year-old, who was the favourite to land the job.<\/p>\n<p>Dunga replaces Luiz Felipe Scolari, who resigned after Brazil reached the semi-finals of the 2014 World Cup, but suffered the joint-heaviest in their history, losing\u00a07-1 to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Dunga was in charge at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa when Brazil were knocked out in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Scolari, who guided Brazil to World Cup victory in 2002, and his entire backroom staff have all\u00a0left their posts\u00a0since the tournament finished.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella, 59, will decide his future next week after his side\u00a0lost 1-0 to Germany\u00a0in the World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the squad have said they want Sabella to remain in charge for the 2015 Copa America in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s down to whether I feel strong enough to give 100%,&#8221; said Sabella.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil have named former player Dunga as their new coach for the second time. Dunga was the captain of Brazil&#8217;s 1994 World Cup-winning team and coached the national team from 2006 to 2011. &#8220;I am immensely happy to be back,&#8221; said the 50-year-old, who was the favourite to land the job. Dunga replaces Luiz Felipe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":33799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-33798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}