{"id":60484,"date":"2013-09-09T23:59:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T23:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=60484"},"modified":"2013-09-09T23:59:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T23:59:58","slug":"rodolfo-zapata-back-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=60484","title":{"rendered":"Rodolfo Zapata back to Nigeria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigerian football team, Sunshine Stars FC, identified the need for the new manager to take on a more &#8216;holistic&#8217; approach, with President Mike Idoko having singled out Rodolfo Zapata as the most appropriate candidate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Argentinean has had a long and varied managerial career, taking in clubs in South Africa, USA, Canada and Nigeria, as well as his homeland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Rolo&#8221; Zapata guided tournament under-dogs Sunshine Stars and MP Black Aces (South Africa) to the latter stages of the competition, earning plaudits for their attractive style of play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Always Zapata has inspired players to perform beyond themselves. The Argentinean has favoured a 4-3-2-1 formation, although he preferred abetter ball control with a 4-1-4-1 with four playmakers when he took MP Black Aces FC in 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is this African pedigree which appears to have won the attention of Sunshine Stars President Mike Idoko.<\/p>\n<p><i>By Jim Cohen<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian football team, Sunshine Stars FC, identified the need for the new manager to take on a more &#8216;holistic&#8217; approach, with President Mike Idoko having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":60485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,824],"tags":[16825,16826],"class_list":["post-60484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-rodolfo-zapata","tag-sunshine-stars-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}