{"id":1262495,"date":"2022-12-07T11:28:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/07\/south-korea-coach-quits-after-brazil-thumping\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T11:28:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:28:12","slug":"south-korea-coach-quits-after-brazil-thumping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/07\/south-korea-coach-quits-after-brazil-thumping\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea Coach Quits&#8230; After Brazil Thumping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Paulo Bento<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\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 was knocked out of the tournament after a 4-1 defeat by Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old from Portugal was appointed as South Korea boss in August 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\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. Today I have confirmed it and I have to thank them for everything they have done. They 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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulo Bento \u00a0 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 was knocked out of the tournament after a 4-1 defeat by Brazil. The 53-year-old from Portugal was appointed as South Korea boss in August 2018. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1262497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5625,1763,6992,3329,2620,26234],"class_list":["post-1262495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brazil","tag-coach","tag-korea","tag-quits","tag-south","tag-thumping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262495","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=1262495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}