{"id":22135,"date":"2024-02-28T04:34:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T09:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/paul-clement-former-chelsea-real-madrid-bayern-munich-assistant-in-contention-for-republic-of-ireland-job-football-news\/28\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T04:34:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T09:34:17","slug":"paul-clement-former-chelsea-real-madrid-bayern-munich-assistant-in-contention-for-republic-of-ireland-job-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/paul-clement-former-chelsea-real-madrid-bayern-munich-assistant-in-contention-for-republic-of-ireland-job-football-news\/28\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Clement: Former Chelsea, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich assistant in contention for Republic of Ireland job | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Paul Clement, the former Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid assistant manager, is one of the names under consideration for the Republic of Ireland job.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old, who has managed Derby, Swansea, Reading and Cercle Brugge, is interested in succeeding Stephen Kenny, whose contract was not renewed after it expired last November.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sky Sports News<\/em> understands the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) is yet to make a final decision, with current Bayern assistant Anthony Barry and England U21 coach Lee Carsley also linked.<\/p>\n<p>FAI director of football Marc Canham said last week they were &#8220;very close&#8221; to deciding and that they &#8220;hope to announce it really soon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve taken our time, and we want to make sure we get the right person for the job,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\">\n        <span class=\"u-hide-visually\">Image:<\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\">Paul Clement (right) worked with Frank Lampard (left) at Everton<br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ireland failed to qualify for Euro 2024 after finishing second-bottom in their group with six points from eight matches.<\/p>\n<p>Clement most recently worked as a first-team coach at Everton under Frank Lampard, leaving the club in January last year.<\/p>\n<p>He coached Ireland&#8217;s U21s early in his career and then briefly took over the senior side alongside Don Givens, who was made caretaker manager before the appointment of Giovanni Trapattoni in 2008.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/12040\/13082725\/paul-clement-former-chelsea-real-madrid-bayern-munich-assistant-in-contention-for-republic-of-ireland-job\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Clement, the former Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid assistant manager, is one of the names under consideration for the Republic<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/paul-clement-former-chelsea-real-madrid-bayern-munich-assistant-in-contention-for-republic-of-ireland-job-football-news\/28\/02\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[3342,424,137,1405,2309,313,62,509,379,425,33,499,887,2815],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22137,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22135\/revisions\/22137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}