The All India Football Federation (AIFF) confirmed that Portuguese manager Luis Norton has been appointed as the head coach of the country’s U-17 team.<\/p>\n
The 63-year-old tactician, who was most recently in charge of Portuguese club Uniao Madeira, has been tasked with guiding his players at the upcoming U-17 World Cup, which will be held in India later this year.<\/p>\n
The vastly-experienced manager had short stints with various Portuguese clubs, including Vitoria Setubal and Chaves. He was also in charge of the Benfica B-team for one season.<\/p>\n
The tournament will be hosted by India between 6 and 28 October 2017, with 24 teams from 6 confederations competing for the top prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The All India Football Federation (AIFF) confirmed that Portuguese manager Luis Norton has been appointed as the head coach of the country’s U-17 team. The 63-year-old tactician, who was most recently in charge of Portuguese club Uniao Madeira, has been tasked with guiding his players at the upcoming U-17 World Cup, which will be held in India later this year. The vastly-experienced manager had short stints with various Portuguese clubs, including Vitoria Setubal and Chaves. He was also in charge of the Benfica B-team for one season. The tournament will be hosted by India between 6 and 28 October 2017, with 24 teams from 6 confederations competing for the top … Continue reading “India appoint Luis Norton as U-17 team head coach”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":1691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,29],"tags":[205,332],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-south-asia","tag-india","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}