{"id":54431,"date":"2025-09-17T17:35:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=54431"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:35:49","slug":"benfica-to-hire-mourinho-as-new-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/benfica-to-hire-mourinho-as-new-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Benfica to Hire Mourinho as New Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portuguese club Benfica are set to name Jose Mourinho as its head coach following the sacking of Bruno Lage in the aftermath of their 3-2 Champions League defeat by Qarabag, Portuguese TV station RTP reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, Benfica said it had reached an agreement to part ways with Lage, following their shock loss in the Champions League group stage on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho parted ways with Turkish club Fenerbahce in August, bringing an end to the Portuguese coach&#8217;s tenure in Istanbul two days after his side crashed out of the Champions League playoffs to Benfica.<\/p>\n<p>The former Chelsea, Real Madrid and Inter Milan manager began his managerial career at Benfica, before moving to rivals FC Porto and guiding them to Champions League glory in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portuguese club Benfica are set to name Jose Mourinho as its head coach following the sacking of Bruno Lage in the aftermath of their 3-2 Champions League defeat by Qarabag, Portuguese TV station RTP reported on Wednesday. In a statement on Wednesday, Benfica said it had reached an agreement to part ways with Lage, following &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54434,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54431\/revisions\/54434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}