Western Sydney Wanderers coach Tony Popovic\u00a0has quit the club after reaching an agreement to coach Turkish club Karabukspor.<\/p>\n
After five seasons at the Wanderers, Popovic confirmed his sudden resignation on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday is a very difficult day to announce my departure from the Western Sydney Wanderers,\u201d said Popovic, as quoted by The Guardian.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThis was certainly not planned and I understand the timing. It was an opportunity that I couldn\u2019t turn down. There\u2019s always speculation and this opportunity is in a league that is in Europe and I want an opportunity to coach in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n His departure came just a week before the kick-off to the new A-League season, thus left the Wanderers in a desperate search for a new coach.<\/p>\n The 44-year-old took charge of Wanderers when they first entered the A-League in 2012. He guided the club to the Premier\u2019s Plate and grand final in their first season before the historic Asian Champions League title in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Western Sydney Wanderers coach Tony Popovic\u00a0has quit the club after reaching an agreement to coach Turkish club Karabukspor. After five seasons at the Wanderers, Popovic confirmed his sudden resignation on Sunday. \u201cToday is a very difficult day to announce my departure from the Western Sydney Wanderers,\u201d said Popovic, as quoted by The Guardian. \u201cThis was certainly not planned and I understand the timing. It was an opportunity that I couldn\u2019t turn down. There\u2019s always speculation and this opportunity is in a league that is in Europe and I want an opportunity to coach in Europe.\u201d His departure came just a week before the kick-off to the new A-League season, thus … Continue reading “Tony Popovic quits Western Sydney Wanderer ahead of new A-League season”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[380,272,273],"class_list":["post-7503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-a-league","tag-tony-popovic","tag-western-sydney-wanderers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503","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=7503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}