{"id":12236,"date":"2024-09-23T19:17:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T19:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australia-tony-popovic-named-head-coach-after-graham-arnold-exit\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T19:17:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T19:17:36","slug":"australia-tony-popovic-named-head-coach-after-graham-arnold-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australia-tony-popovic-named-head-coach-after-graham-arnold-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia: Tony Popovic named head coach after Graham Arnold exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former Crystal Palace defender Tony Popovic has been named Australia&#8217;s head coach following the resignation of Graham Arnold.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arnold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c206e49yzp1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">stepped down last Friday<\/a> after six years in the role following a shock 1-0 home defeat against Bahrain and a draw against Indonesia in World Cup qualifying earlier in September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those results have left Australia fifth in the Asia standings, with only the top two teams automatically qualifying for the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 51-year-old, who played 58 times for the Socceroos, has signed a two-year deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a role that comes with great responsibility, and I&#8217;m deeply grateful for the opportunity,&#8221; said Popovic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is undoubtedly a very proud moment for myself and my family. To be entrusted with guiding our national team is a privilege I do not take lightly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Popovic spent five years with Crystal Palace before leaving in 2006. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He played for the Socceroos in the 2006 World Cup and has coached in Australia, Turkey and Greece since retiring in 2008. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia host China in Adelaide on 10 October in their next World Cup qualifier. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c8j70398yvro\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Crystal Palace defender Tony Popovic has been named Australia&#8217;s head coach following the resignation of Graham Arnold. Arnold stepped down last Friday after six years in the role following a shock 1-0 home defeat against Bahrain and a draw against Indonesia in World Cup qualifying earlier in September. Those results have left Australia fifth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5522,409,3814,2441,3265,1110,5584,671],"class_list":["post-12236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-arnold","tag-australia","tag-coach","tag-exit","tag-graham","tag-named","tag-popovic","tag-tony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12238,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12236\/revisions\/12238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}