{"id":76968,"date":"2025-10-20T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76968"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:01:31","slug":"potter-appointed-sweden-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/20\/potter-appointed-sweden-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Potter Appointed Sweden Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/p>\n<p>Former Chelsea and West Ham manager Graham Potter has been appointed as head coach of the Swedish national team following the sacking of Jon Dahl Tomasson.<\/p>\n<p>Tomasson was dismissed after Sweden\u2019s 0-1 home loss to Kosovo in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to his appointment, Potter said he was \u201chonoured and inspired\u201d by the opportunity, adding that his goal is to lead Sweden to next summer\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Potter previously coached in Sweden during a successful spell with \u00d6stersunds FK, where he gained international recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa Former Chelsea and West Ham manager Graham Potter has been appointed as head coach of the Swedish national team following the sacking of Jon Dahl Tomasson. Tomasson was dismissed after Sweden\u2019s 0-1 home loss to Kosovo in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. Reacting to his appointment, Potter said he was \u201chonoured and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":76969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76970,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76968\/revisions\/76970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}