Al-Fujairah FC of\u00a0the United Arab Emirates second-tier announce today that\u00a0Argentine legend Diego Maradona has been appointed head coach of the club.<\/p>\n
It is the 56-year-old’s first job since he was sacked as manager of UAE side Al Wasl in July 2012.<\/p>\n
Al-Fujairah tweeted a picture of Maradona holding the club’s shirt.<\/p>\n
“I want to tell you that I am the new coach of Al-Fujairah SC, in the second division of the United Arab Emirates,” Maradona added on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n
Maradona helped Argentina win the World Cup as a player in 1986 and managed his country between 2008 and 2010.<\/p>\n
The Argentine previously agreed on a big money move\u00a0to become the new ambassador of the Chinese Super League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Al-Fujairah FC of\u00a0the United Arab Emirates second-tier announce today that\u00a0Argentine legend Diego Maradona has been appointed head coach of the club. It is the 56-year-old’s first job since he was sacked as manager of UAE side Al Wasl in July 2012. Al-Fujairah tweeted a picture of Maradona holding the club’s shirt. “I want to tell you that I am the new coach of Al-Fujairah SC, in the second division of the United Arab Emirates,” Maradona added on his Facebook page. Maradona helped Argentina win the World Cup as a player in 1986 and managed his country between 2008 and 2010. The Argentine previously agreed on a big money move\u00a0to become … Continue reading “Diego Maradona takes charge at UAE’s Al-Fujairah”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":3356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,27],"tags":[784,475,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355"}],"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=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}