{"id":13545,"date":"2018-12-19T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T08:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/npnews24.com\/2018\/12\/19\/coaching-santos-biggest-challenge-of-my-career-sampaoli\/"},"modified":"2018-12-19T08:41:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T08:41:10","slug":"coaching-santos-biggest-challenge-of-my-career-sampaoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/coaching-santos-biggest-challenge-of-my-career-sampaoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaching Santos biggest challenge of my career: Sampaoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sao Paulo, Dec 19 (IANS)-<\/strong> Jorge Sampaoli said during his first press conference as coach of Santos that it is &#8220;incredible&#8221; to be with the team where the legendary Pele became a star.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the most important challenge of my career because it&#8217;s what&#8217;s ahead and people have a clear idea of what they expect from me and I have to make my style work in a difficult league,&#8221; he said in the auditorium of Sao Paulo&#8217;s Pacaembu stadium on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old Argentine said that the offer from Santos came after he had analyzed a lot of other projects and that he didn&#8217;t hesitate to sign with the Brazilian club, reports Efe news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe I&#8217;m in the place where the cradle of football is, from where the best players sent to Europe come,&#8221; Sampaoli said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the club&#8217;s history of star players like Pele who led Brazil to three World Cups\u00a0 and current Brazilian captain Neymar, obliges him &#8220;to think more&#8221; about scoring than defending.<\/p>\n<p>Sampaoli coached Argentina during the 2018 World Cup, where they were eliminated in the knockout stage by eventual champion France.<\/p>\n<p>He won the 2015 Copa America as coach of the Chilean national team and has been with clubs such as Universidad de Chile and Spain&#8217;s Sevilla.<br \/>\n&#8211;IANSkk\/sed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sao Paulo, Dec 19 (IANS)- Jorge Sampaoli said during his first press conference as coach of Santos that it is &#8220;incredible&#8221; to be with the team where the legendary Pele became a star. &#8220;This is the most important challenge of my career because it&#8217;s what&#8217;s ahead and people have a clear idea of what they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":13549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[8727,11658,11283,11657,4064,11659,10046],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - 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