{"id":278054,"date":"2025-10-04T21:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/278054\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T21:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:33:19","slug":"al-ittihad-sacks-manager-laurent-blanc-after-loss-to-al-nassr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/278054\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Ittihad sacks manager Laurent Blanc after loss to Al Nassr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Ittihad has sacked manager Laurent Blanc, the Saudi Pro League club said on Saturday, following its 2-0 defeat against Al Nassr a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl-Ittihad announces the termination of its contractual relationship with the first team\u2019s head coach, Mr Laurent Blanc and his coaching staff,\u201d the club said on        X.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Ittihad added that it was also looking for \u201cnew technical staff that matches the club\u2019s ambitions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><b>ALSO READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/football\/mls-results-lionel-messi-inter-miami-held-1-1-draw-vs-toronto-points-table\/article70104407.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MLS: Messi, Miami frustrated in Toronto stalemate<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Blanc took charge of Al-Ittihad in July last year and led the team to a domestic double, winning both the league title and the King\u2019s Cup.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>However, the team began the new season by exiting the Saudi Super Cup in the semifinals following a loss to Al-Nassr, before suffering a second defeat to the Riyadh-based side in the league on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>It is third in the standings, three points behind Al-Nassr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Sep 28, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Al Ittihad has sacked manager Laurent Blanc, the Saudi Pro League club said on Saturday, following its 2-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":278055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[142343,143707,143708,143709,143710,143711,143706,143705,143712,143713,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-278054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-al-ittihad","9":"tag-al-ittihad-coach","10":"tag-al-ittihad-head-coach","11":"tag-al-ittihad-laurent-blanc","12":"tag-al-ittihad-laurent-blanc-news","13":"tag-al-ittihad-laurent-blanc-updates","14":"tag-al-ittihad-manager","15":"tag-al-ittihad-news","16":"tag-laurent-blanc","17":"tag-laurent-blanc-news","18":"tag-soccer","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115318044050878969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}