{"id":15243,"date":"2018-10-13T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T13:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/?p=15243"},"modified":"2018-10-13T14:00:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T14:00:43","slug":"henry-named-new-monaco-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/henry-named-new-monaco-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry named new Monaco coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fGAvcrt-Fcg\/W8HkYw6uK7I\/AAAAAAAAHDM\/bsW3p3eQ_sU_77Q4hATEYLYawrmxqb4YQCK4BGAYYCw\/s1600\/thierry-henry.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Former Arsenal star Thierry Henry was on Saturday named as Monaco coach, the struggling Ligue 1 club announced.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old French World Cup winner, who had been working as an assistant coach for the Belgian national team since 2016, signed a contract with Monaco through until June 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The former striker will be joined by Joao Carlos Valado Tralhao, under-23 coach at Benfica, and Patrick Kwame Ampadu, coach at the Arsenal Academy.<\/p>\n<p>Henry replaces Leonardo Jardim, who was sacked in midweek following a string of poor results that left Monaco languishing in 18th in France\u2019s Ligue 1.<\/p>\n<p>Henry knows Monaco well having graduated from their youth system and making his professional debut for the Principality club in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>He notably scored seven goals in the 1997-8 Champions League as the Monaco team of the time, then coached by Arsene Wenger, reached the semi-finals, where they lost to Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I thank AS Monaco for giving me the opportunity to coach the team of this club which is so special to me,\u201d Henry said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very happy to come back to AS Monaco and extremely determined to meet the challenges ahead. I can not wait to meet the players to start working together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After spending five seasons as a player with Monaco, Henry went on to play for Juventus, Arsenal, Barcelona and the New York Red Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>He scored 51 goals in 123 appearances for France, winning not only the 1998 World Cup but also Euro 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Monaco chief executive officer Vadim Vasilyev said Henry could \u201ccount on our trust and all our support to bring a new dynamic to the team and carry out the mission\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis knowledge of football, his passion for the game, his high standards and his commitment to our colours make his nomination a reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThierry is both aware of the task ahead and eager to start his new job.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sourced From: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soccernet.com.ng\/2018\/10\/henry-named-new-monaco-coach.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SoccerNet NG: Football News and Articles in Nigeria<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arsenal star Thierry Henry was on Saturday named as Monaco coach, the struggling Ligue 1 club announced. The 41-year-old French World Cup winner, who had been working as an assistant coach for the Belgian national team since 2016, signed a contract with Monaco through until June 2021. The former striker will be joined by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9508,9505],"tags":[446,895,1306,11916],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}