{"id":1431,"date":"2024-01-25T19:57:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2024-01-25T19:57:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:57:20","slug":"bev-priestman-to-coach-canada-through-2027-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=1431","title":{"rendered":"Bev Priestman to coach Canada through 2027 Women&#039;s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Bev Priestman agreed Thursday to a contact to coach Canada through the 2027 Women&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Priestman, 37, was hired in November 2020 to succeed Kenneth Heiner-M\u00f8ller and had been working on a rolling contract. She led Canada to a gold medal at the 2021 Olympics but was eliminated in the group stage of last year&#8217;s World Cup. She has coached the team to 28 wins, nine losses and 10 draws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Priestman spent five years with the Canadian Soccer Association in a variety of coaching roles before returning in June 2018 to her native England, where she served as coach of the women&#8217;s under-18 team and assistant coach with the senior women&#8217;s team. Before that she spent 4 1\/2 years as head of football development in New Zealand before leaving in June 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bev Priestman agreed Thursday to a contact to coach Canada through the 2027 Women&#8217;s World Cup. Priestman, 37, was hired in November 2020 to succeed Kenneth Heiner-M\u00f8ller and had been working on a rolling contract. She led Canada to a gold medal at the 2021 Olympics but was eliminated in the group stage of last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}