{"id":417379,"date":"2024-07-10T13:44:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T08:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=417379"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:44:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T08:44:21","slug":"ex-liverpool-striker-bellamy-appointed-wales-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/ex-liverpool-striker-bellamy-appointed-wales-football-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Liverpool striker Bellamy appointed Wales football coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Craig Bellamy has been appointed as the new head coach of the Wales national football team on a contract until 2028, the Football Association of Wales (FAW) announced Tuesday. Bellamy has replaced Rob Page, who was sacked following Wales\u2019 failure to qualify for Euro 2024. The 44-year-old former Liverpool, Newcastle and Wales striker leaves Burnley, where he was assistant to former manager Vincent Kompany last season in the Premier League. I will give my full commitment to develop this team and I am passionate to bring continued success into Welsh football,\u201d Bellamy told the FAW website. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to get started with our Nations League games in September.\u201d Page guided Wales to their first World Cup in 64 years in 2022 and to the second round of Euro 2020 but failed to reach this year\u2019s Euros, losing in a penalty shoot-out to Poland in a play-off. Page subsequently oversaw one of the most embarrassing results in Wales\u2019 history, a 0-0 draw with Gibraltar in a friendly and then suffered a 4-0 hammering at the hands of Slovakia. Former Wales defender Page admitted following the Slovakian defeat he was in dangerous territory. DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Craig Bellamy has been appointed as the new head coach of the Wales national football team on a contract until 2028, the Football Association of Wales (FAW) announced Tuesday. Bellamy has replaced Rob Page, who was sacked following Wales\u2019 failure to qualify for Euro 2024. The 44-year-old former Liverpool, Newcastle and Wales striker leaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-417379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ex-Liverpool striker Bellamy appointed Wales football coach<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/ex-liverpool-striker-bellamy-appointed-wales-football-coach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ex-Liverpool striker Bellamy appointed Wales football coach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LONDON: Craig Bellamy has been appointed as the new head coach of the Wales national football team on a contract until 2028, the Football Association of Wales (FAW) announced Tuesday. 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