{"id":17666,"date":"2024-05-21T09:39:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T09:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/neil-lennon-former-celtic-boss-appointed-head-coach-at-rapid-bucharest\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T09:39:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T09:39:34","slug":"neil-lennon-former-celtic-boss-appointed-head-coach-at-rapid-bucharest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/neil-lennon-former-celtic-boss-appointed-head-coach-at-rapid-bucharest\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Lennon: Former Celtic boss appointed head coach at Rapid Bucharest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former Celtic, Hibernian and Bolton Wanderers boss Neil Lennon has been named head coach at Romanian club Rapid Bucharest.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 52-year-old former Northern Ireland midfielder is back in management 18 months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/63304845\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">being sacked <\/a>by Cyprus&#8217; Omonia Nicosia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lennon, who was linked to the Republic of Ireland job after Stephen Kenny&#8217;s departure last November, takes over a team which finished sixth in the Romanian top flight following their final match on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I hope to create a strong connection between myself and the fans, but that comes with getting positive results and performing,&#8221; he told the club website. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is my responsibility. I know they are very passionate supporters who love the club. They are similar to Celtic fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lennon won 10 trophies across two spells at Celtic, guided Hibernian to the Scottish Championship title and led Omonia to Cypriot Cup success.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/cx995ewl875o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Celtic, Hibernian and Bolton Wanderers boss Neil Lennon has been named head coach at Romanian club Rapid Bucharest. The 52-year-old former Northern Ireland midfielder is back in management 18 months after being sacked by Cyprus&#8217; Omonia Nicosia. Lennon, who was linked to the Republic of Ireland job after Stephen Kenny&#8217;s departure last November, takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17668,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17666\/revisions\/17668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}