UAE have officially appointed Alberto Zaccheroni as their new national team head coach.<\/p>\n
The 64-year-old Italian tactician replaces Edgardo Bauza, who concluded his five-month tenure last month to take the reins of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
Bauza had failed in a late bid to qualify the UAE for the 2018 World Cup after replacing Mahdi Ali in May.<\/p>\n
According to reports, Zaccheroni has signed a contract until 2019, when UAE will host the Asian Cup. He previously won the 2011 edition of the tournament as head coach of Japan.<\/p>\n
“There is a great challenge that motivates me very much: the 2019 Asian Cup challenge,” said Zaccheroni as it was quoted by The National.<\/em><\/p>\n “I’m very excited and proud to be a part of this project. I will use all my experience over the years in Italy and abroad to achieve the best results for the UAE.”<\/p>\n The former Juventus and Inter Milan has been out of work since leaving Chinese Super League outfit Beijing Guoan in May, where he lasted only nine matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UAE have officially appointed Alberto Zaccheroni as their new national team head coach. The 64-year-old Italian tactician replaces Edgardo Bauza, who concluded his five-month tenure last month to take the reins of Saudi Arabia. Bauza had failed in a late bid to qualify the UAE for the 2018 World Cup after replacing Mahdi Ali in May. According to reports, Zaccheroni has signed a contract until 2019, when UAE will host the Asian Cup. He previously won the 2011 edition of the tournament as head coach of Japan. “There is a great challenge that motivates me very much: the 2019 Asian Cup challenge,” said Zaccheroni as it was quoted by The … Continue reading “UAE appoint former Japan boss Alberto Zaccheroni”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":8010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,27],"tags":[1014,57,95,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008"}],"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=8008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}