{"id":1590,"date":"2014-02-07T05:41:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2014-02-07T05:50:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:50:42","slug":"former-us-captain-thomas-dooley-appointed-head-coach-of-philippines-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/07\/former-us-captain-thomas-dooley-appointed-head-coach-of-philippines-national-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Former US captain Thomas Dooley appointed head coach of Philippines national team"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1605\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/367012_heroa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1605\" alt=\"Photo from goal.com\" src=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/367012_heroa.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/367012_heroa.jpg 620w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/367012_heroa-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from goal.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014Former U.S. captain Thomas Dooley was hired as head coach of the\u00a0Philippines\u00a0national team on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine\u00a0Football Federation President Mariano Araneta announced that Dooley will start immediately preparing the team for the Challenge Cup in May in the Maldives.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old Dooley was selected ahead of four unnamed European candidates on the shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>Dooley spent much of his playing career in Germany before stints with Columbus and the New York MetroStars in Major League Soccer.<\/p>\n<p>He made 81 appearances for the U.S. national team, appearing at the 1994 and 1998 World Cups.<\/p>\n<p>It will be Dooley\u2019s first time to coach a national team and he said he is \u201cvery honoured, humbled and very excited to take this task.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the first objective for the team was to win the Challenge Cup and thereby qualify for the Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForget about the World Cup,\u201d Dooley said. \u201cWe need to play the World Cup &#8230; but we are so far away from that that if they don\u2019t win the Challenge Cup we can\u2019t play in the next 25 years for that. But if we can win the Challenge Cup, we have another goal then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soccer may lag behind basketball as the\u00a0Philippines\u2019 most popular sport, but Dooley said \u201cnot everybody can play overseas basketball in the professional league but in soccer you can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love to play soccer, so that\u2019s what I want to do\u2014I want to play soccer. That means not just kicking the ball. I want to get everybody involved in playing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014Former U.S. captain Thomas Dooley was hired as head coach of the\u00a0Philippines\u00a0national team on Friday. Philippine\u00a0Football Federation President Mariano Araneta &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":1605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}