{"id":2138,"date":"2022-03-03T02:44:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T02:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appsaf.apieproject.com\/news\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2022-03-03T02:47:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T02:47:04","slug":"rigobert-song-to-be-named-cameroon-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appsaf.apieproject.com\/news\/2022\/03\/03\/rigobert-song-to-be-named-cameroon-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Rigobert Song to be named Cameroon coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal&#8217;s Conceicao has led Cameroon into the play-offs of World Cup qualifying and took them to a third-placed finish at the Africa Cup of Nations on home soil last month.<\/p>\n<p>Sports minister Narcisse Mouelle Kombi said Cameroonian President Paul Biya has ordered the national football federation to give the job to ex-Liverpool defender Song.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On very high instructions from the President of the Republic, the coach of the men&#8217;s national football team, Mr Antonio Conceicao, has been replaced by Rigobert Song,&#8221; Kombi said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Cameroonian Football Federation (Fecafoot) is invited to take the necessary measures for a rapid and harmonious implementation of these very high directives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former star player Rigobert Song is set to be named as head coach of the Cameroon national team, replacing Toni Conceicao, on the orders of the country&#8217;s president, the sports minister said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12963,"featured_media":2135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16,4],"tags":[7,30,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-2138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-news","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-apie-project","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - 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