{"id":1262116,"date":"2022-12-06T13:19:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T13:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/06\/south-korea-boss-paulo-bento-quits-after-world-cup-elimination\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T13:19:37","slug":"south-korea-boss-paulo-bento-quits-after-world-cup-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/06\/south-korea-boss-paulo-bento-quits-after-world-cup-elimination\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea boss Paulo Bento quits after World Cup elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image_2022-12-06_083411078-696x392.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Bento told South Korea's players he was leaving his post as their manager following their defeat by Brazil\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bento told South Korea&#8217;s players he was leaving his post as their manager following their defeat by Brazil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>South Korea coach Paulo Bento says he is leaving his role following his team\u2019s elimination from the 2022 World Cup in the last 16.<\/p>\n<p>Bento\u2019s side were knocked out of the tournament after a\u00a04-1 defeat by Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old from Portugal was appointed as South Korea boss in August 2018.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just have to think about the future and it will not be with the national team of South Korea,\u201d said Bento.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have just announced to the players and to the president of the South Korean federation and this was a decision I had already taken since September that was set in stone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I have confirmed it and I have to thank them for everything they have done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have given their very best and I have been very pleased and proud to have been their manager.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bento\u2019s side beat his native Portugal 2-1 in their final group game to finish second in Group H and progress to the last 16.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Hzu3egSSscs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Media Review on Adom TV (06-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hzu3egSSscs?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bento told South Korea&#8217;s players he was leaving his post as their manager following their defeat by Brazil South Korea coach Paulo Bento says he is leaving his role following his team\u2019s elimination from the 2022 World Cup in the last 16. Bento\u2019s side were knocked out of the tournament after a\u00a04-1 defeat by Brazil. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1262117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[29615,566,262,23491,6992,17131,3329,2620,784],"class_list":["post-1262116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bento","tag-boss","tag-cup","tag-elimination","tag-korea","tag-paulo","tag-quits","tag-south","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262116","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=1262116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}