{"id":1233850,"date":"2022-10-25T11:34:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/sporting-boss-leads-race-for-villa-vacant-post\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T11:34:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:34:41","slug":"sporting-boss-leads-race-for-villa-vacant-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/sporting-boss-leads-race-for-villa-vacant-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Sporting Boss Leads Race&#8230; For Villa Vacant Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Ruben Amorim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sporting Lisbon boss Ruben Amorim is one of the main contenders to succeed Steven Gerrard as Aston Villa manager.<\/p>\n<p>Gerrard was sacked last Thursday after less than a year in charge following a 3-0 defeat by Fulham.<\/p>\n<p>Amorim, 37, has a reported \u00a310m release clause at the Portuguese club and it is understood Villa have held talks with his representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Villa, however, have other contenders despite the strong interest in the former Portugal midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>Amorim has emerged as one of the most highly rated young coaches in Europe after his work with Sporting.<\/p>\n<p>He speaks English and his reputation has grown since joining Braga in 2020, leading the Lisbon club to their first Primeira Liga title for 19 years in 2020-21.<\/p>\n<p>They are currently third in Champions\u2019 League Group D, a point behind leaders Tottenham going into Wednesday\u2019s game. The return match comes after Sporting beat Spurs 2-0 in the first group meeting in Lisbon in September.<\/p>\n<p>Villa started the post-Gerrard era under caretaker Aaron Danks with a 4-0 home win against Brentford that left them 14th in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruben Amorim \u00a0 Sporting Lisbon boss Ruben Amorim is one of the main contenders to succeed Steven Gerrard as Aston Villa manager. Gerrard was sacked last Thursday after less than a year in charge following a 3-0 defeat by Fulham. Amorim, 37, has a reported \u00a310m release clause at the Portuguese club and it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1233852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[566,1038,1159,5715,5120,2988,660],"class_list":["post-1233850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-boss","tag-leads","tag-post","tag-race","tag-sporting","tag-vacant","tag-villa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}