{"id":18924,"date":"2025-09-12T12:04:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18924"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:04:32","slug":"venezuela-sack-coach-after-world-cup-hopes-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18924","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela sack coach after World Cup hopes end"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Venezuela sacked coach Fernando Batista on Wednesday night, a day after their World Cup qualification dream died and after an intervention by the country&#8217;s president.<\/p>\n<p>News of Argentine Batista&#8217;s sacking, alongside his entire backroom staff, came after President Nicolas Maduro had called for a &#8220;restructuring of the technical staff&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That was 24 hours after Venezuela, known as the Vinotinto, were thumped 6-3 at home by neighbours Colombia, ending their hopes of reaching a World Cup for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday we suffered a painful defeat,&#8221; said Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of Venezuela demands a restructuring of the technical staff of the Vinotinto, a reorganisation of the strategy, of the doctrine and of the line of combat and hard work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decision by the sport&#8217;s world governing body FIFA to expand the 2026 World Cup in North America from 32 to 48 teams had boosted the hopes of teams like Venezuela &#8212; the only side in the CONMEBOL federation never to qualify for a finals &#8212; to make it to the global extravaganza for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>But their defeat to Colombia meant that Bolivia &#8212; 1-0 winners over five-time champions Brazil &#8212; pipped them to a place in the intercontinental play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>Peru, whose hopes of World Cup qualification had ended before the final round of matches, also sacked their coach, Oscar Ibanez.<\/p>\n<p>They finished the group stage with a miserable record of two wins and just six goals alongside 10 defeats from their 18 matches.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela sacked coach Fernando Batista on Wednesday night, a day after their World Cup qualification dream died and after an intervention by the country&#8217;s president. News of Argentine Batista&#8217;s sacking, alongside his entire backroom staff, came after President Nicolas Maduro had called for a &#8220;restructuring of the technical staff&#8221;. That was 24 hours after Venezuela, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}