{"id":10996,"date":"2021-11-02T19:24:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=163880"},"modified":"2021-11-02T19:24:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:54:17","slug":"tottenham-hotspur-appoints-antonio-conte-as-their-new-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/tottenham-hotspur-appoints-antonio-conte-as-their-new-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur appoints Antonio Conte as their new Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tottenham saga which started on Saturday after their humiliating defeat against Manchester United has finally reached its climax. The London-based club has finally signed a new manager after sacking Nuno Espirito Santo after an unsuccessful tenure of 3 months.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to Tottenham Hotspur, Antonio Conte. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3faSqLW38g\">pic.twitter.com\/3faSqLW38g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpursOfficial\/status\/1455507142090399748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s official, Tottenham Hotspur has reached an agreement with the Italian coach Antonio Conte. They have signed an 18-month contract with an option to extend. According to Sky Sports, the Spurs Chairman Daniel Levy was in conversation with Conte, even before the sacking of Santo was announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old previously has managed another London-based club, Chelsea, and procured results. With them, he won the 2016-17 premier league, followed by the FA cup next year. Also, he won the Serie A last season with Italian club Inter Milan, before parting ways. Talking about his move on the Tottenham website Conte said, \u201cI am extremely happy to return to coaching and to do so at a premier league club that has the ambition to be a protagonist again.\u201d He further also explained why because of his emotional departure from Inter Milan, he couldn\u2019t commit to the Tottenham job which was proposed to him at that time. He felt that it \u201cwasn\u2019t yet the right time to return to coaching.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Antonio Conte about Spurs: \u201cLast summer our union did not happen because the end of my relationship with Inter was still too recent and emotionally too involved with the end of the season, so I felt that it wasn\u2019t yet the right time to return to coaching\u201d. \u26aa\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/THFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#THFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1455505635756462080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Conte departed from Inter by mutual consent after winning the League with them. It was Inter\u2019s first title in 11 years, previously, the Italian had won the Seria A with Juventus on 3 occasions. At Spurs, he will also get reunited with Fabio Patricio, who is the chairman of the club, and had a similar role at Juventus during Conte\u2019s tenure with the Italian club. Together they will be expected to take Tottenham Hotspur to new heights.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1455504827140775942<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 52-year-old previously managed another London-based club, Chelsea, and procured results. With them, he won the 2016-17 premier league, followed by the FA cup next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":33472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[571,2549,422,2586,1861,218,1162],"class_list":["post-10996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-antonio-conte","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-inter-milan","tag-italian-serie-a","tag-nuno-espirito-santo","tag-premier-league","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}