{"id":2677,"date":"2026-04-18T07:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2026-04-18T07:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:02:13","slug":"herve-renard-fired-from-his-post-as-saudi-arabia-coach-two-months-before-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2677","title":{"rendered":"Herv\u00e9 Renard fired from his post as Saudi Arabia coach two months before the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>A huge feeling. On November 22, 2022, Saudi Arabia created an incredible surprise by beating Argentina during the group stage of the World Cup in Qatar. A historic result for the Green Falcons, with Herv\u00e9 Renard at the head of the selection. The former Lille coach must have secretly hoped to repeat such a performance this summer. But that won&#8217;t be the case.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-media\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Coupe du monde 2022 : Enfin la cons\u00e9cration pour Herv\u00e9 Renard ?\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ultimedia.com\/deliver\/generic\/iframe\/mdtk\/01357940\/zone\/1\/src\/ql3mfpf\/showtitle\/1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In an interview with AFP, Herv\u00e9 Renard indicated that he had been removed from his position as coach and will therefore not participate in the World Cup in Canada, the United States and Mexico. \u201cIt\u2019s football,\u201d he explained. Saudi Arabia has qualified for the World Cup seven times, including twice with me. And there is only one coach who made the qualifications and the World Cup, it&#8217;s me, in 2022. At least there will be this pride. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>We will therefore not see the coach in the perfect white shirt give voice this summer to try to create the feat against Spain or Uruguay (Cape Verde is the third opponent). Less than two months before the start of the World Cup, this must be a hard pill to swallow for Herv\u00e9 Renard, returning to this position at the end of 2024 after a first stint between 2019 and 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge feeling. On November 22, 2022, Saudi Arabia created an incredible surprise by beating Argentina during the group stage of the World Cup in Qatar. A historic result for the Green Falcons, with Herv\u00e9 Renard at the head of the selection. The former Lille coach must have secretly hoped to repeat such a performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}