Vissel Kobe has sacked manager Nelsinho Baptista after the club slumped to a third consecutive loss with a 1-0 defeat by FC Tokyo on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Despite having acquired former Germany striker Lukas Podolski<\/a>, Kobe has struggled this season and is currently 11th in the 18-team J.League.<\/p>\n The Japanese top-flight club confirmed that head coach Takayuki Yoshida has replaced the Brazilian on an interim basis.<\/p>\n “Unfortunately, I couldn’t achieve what we were aiming for, but I was able to see the team grow a lot toward earning a title in football,” Nelsinho said in a statement, as reported by Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n “As a professional, I feel greatly responsible for not being able to live up to everyone’s expectations.”<\/p>\n The 67-year-old took charge of Kobe in 2015 and guided them to a 12th-place finish in his first year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vissel Kobe has sacked manager Nelsinho Baptista after the club slumped to a third consecutive loss with a 1-0 defeat by FC Tokyo on Sunday. Despite having acquired former Germany striker Lukas Podolski, Kobe has struggled this season and is currently 11th in the 18-team J.League. The Japanese top-flight club confirmed that head coach Takayuki Yoshida has replaced the Brazilian on an interim basis. “Unfortunately, I couldn’t achieve what we were aiming for, but I was able to see the team grow a lot toward earning a title in football,” Nelsinho said in a statement, as reported by Reuters. “As a professional, I feel greatly responsible for not being able … Continue reading “Vissel Kobe terminate contract with coach Nelsinho”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":6157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[57,290,289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156"}],"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=6156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}