{"id":174923,"date":"2018-08-04T01:40:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T05:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=174923"},"modified":"2018-08-04T01:40:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T05:40:19","slug":"butcher-leaves-azkals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/04\/butcher-leaves-azkals\/","title":{"rendered":"Butcher leaves Azkals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_174924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-174924\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-TerryButcherMay2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-174924\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-TerryButcherMay2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-TerryButcherMay2010.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-TerryButcherMay2010-300x124.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-174924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry to announce that I will not be proceeding in the role as head coach of the Philippines national football team,&#8221; Butcher said in a statement. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=10215615\">Photo By W. L. Tarbert &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Nearly two months after having been officially installed to his post, Terry Butcher is leaving the Philippine Azkals.<\/p>\n<p>In a surprise development on Friday, the former England skipper announced that he will not push through with his new job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry to announce that I will not be proceeding in the role as head coach of the Philippines national football team,&#8221; Butcher said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>On what prompted the stunning resignation, Butcher, who last coached a football club in 2015, said, &#8220;The vital issue for myself was to carefully build a robust plan to meet the football ambitions of the national team and &#8216;do the country proud.&#8217; Regretfully, I&#8217;ve not been able to make this work in the way that I intended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In another statement, the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) accepted &#8220;with understanding the announcement of Coach Terry Butcher&#8217;s not to proceed as head coach of the National Team of the Philippines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The PFF, however, added that it will move on from Butcher&#8217;s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PFF will continue with the necessary team preparations for the AFF Suzuki Cup 2018 this November and the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 in January 2019,&#8221; the federation said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Nearly two months after having been officially installed to his post, Terry Butcher is leaving the Philippine Azkals. In &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":174924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174923","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}