{"id":1022263,"date":"2024-02-08T09:16:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=1022263"},"modified":"2024-02-08T10:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T10:27:37","slug":"jermain-defoe-wants-to-follow-chris-hughtons-lead-and-inspire-black-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/premier-league\/jermain-defoe-wants-to-follow-chris-hughtons-lead-and-inspire-black-coaches","title":{"rendered":"Jermain Defoe wants to follow Chris Hughton&#8217;s lead and inspire black coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Tottenham forward Jermain Defoe had contemplated giving up on his managerial dream, but remains determined to follow in the footsteps of Chris Hughton and become a trailblazer for black coaches.Former England international Defoe called time on his distinguished playing career in 2022 and has spent the past 18 months coaching in the Spurs academy.Defoe is well aware of potential hurdles and the low number of black and ethnic minority managers in English football, which has been further hit by the January sackings of Darren Moore and Troy Deeney by Huddersfield and Forest Green respectively.Deeney&#8217;s maiden managerial tenure lasted 29 days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Tottenham forward Jermain Defoe had contemplated giving up on his managerial dream, but remains determined to follow in the footsteps of Chris Hughton and become a trailblazer for black coaches.Former<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-premier-league"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}