{"id":21700,"date":"2026-02-23T10:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/21700\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:09:07","slug":"jose-riveiro-off-to-losing-start-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/21700\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Riveiro off to losing start in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riveiro begins new tenure with defeat<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7b508bea551b7819a4e32eeeea502e83.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Mzansi Football<\/p>\n<p>Jose Riveiro began his tenure as AIK Fotboll head coach with a 2-0 defeat to Vasteras SK in the Swedish Cup on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish mentor took over the reins last month, ending speculation of a possible return to the Betway Premiership.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Riveiro was unattached following a tumultuous spell with Egyptian giants Al Ahly, where he was sacked three months into the job.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old tactician, who spearheaded the 12-time African champions in the FIFA Club World Cup, registered one win in the seven matches he oversaw in the Red Devils&#8217; dugout.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Riveiro enjoyed success with South African heavyweights Orlando Pirates, guiding the Buccaneers to five domestic cup titles during his time at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Now, he is embarking on a new journey in Sweden, and will undoubtedly be eager to get off the mark when his team faces second division side IK Oddvold in the same cup competition on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Svenska Cupen is divided into seven groups comprising of four teams each, with the winner of the group progressing to the next stage of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>With AIK currently sitting bottom of Group 7 ahead of the final two matches, it remains to be seen whether Riveiro can guide his charges to the next phase of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riveiro begins new tenure with defeat Photo: Mzansi Football Jose Riveiro began his tenure as AIK Fotboll head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[14684,14681,14682,14683,131,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-21700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-al-ahly","9":"tag-jose-riveiro","10":"tag-orlando-pirates","11":"tag-red-devils","12":"tag-stockholm","13":"tag-sweden"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}