{"id":81052,"date":"2026-01-01T18:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81052"},"modified":"2026-01-01T18:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:21:48","slug":"chelsea-part-ways-with-enzo-maresca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/01\/chelsea-part-ways-with-enzo-maresca\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Part Ways with Enzo Maresca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea Football Club have parted ways with head coach Enzo Maresca with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>The decision follows talks held over the past 48 hours, which ended in a mutual agreement to separate.<\/p>\n<p>Although the club is yet to issue an official statement, the matter is understood to be concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Maresca departs after a challenging spell marked by inconsistent results and growing internal tensions, with sources indicating a strained relationship between the Italian coach and the club\u2019s hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are expected to appoint an interim manager while the process of hiring a new head coach begins, as the club prepares for upcoming fixtures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Chelsea Football Club have parted ways with head coach Enzo Maresca with immediate effect. The decision follows talks held over the past 48 hours, which ended in a mutual agreement to separate. Although the club is yet to issue an official statement, the matter is understood to be concluded. Maresca departs after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81052","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81054,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81052\/revisions\/81054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}