{"id":13218,"date":"2023-10-24T20:10:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=365894"},"modified":"2023-10-24T20:10:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:40:27","slug":"ajax-fire-maurice-steijn-following-poor-start-to-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/ajax-fire-maurice-steijn-following-poor-start-to-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajax fire Maurice Steijn following poor start to the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ajax Football Club, one of the Dutch\u2019s most prestigious football teams, has made a significant managerial change as they parted ways with their head coach, Maurice Steijn. This decision came after a disappointing performance in the Eredivisie, which left the club sitting in the 17th position in the league table.<\/p>\n<p>Steijn\u2019s tenure as Ajax manager had been under close supervision for some time, as the club struggled to find consistency in the league. Despite a rich history of success and a passionate fan base, Ajax\u2019s performances in recent months had fallen far below expectations. The team\u2019s lowly position in the Eredivisie standings, known for being highly competitive, was sad to see for their fans.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to remove Steijn from his position as manager was a difficult one, but the Ajax board believed that it was necessary to regenerate the team\u2019s fortunes. The club\u2019s management expressed their gratitude for Steijn\u2019s contributions but said that results in the Eredivisie were poor, and the recent string of performances left them with little choice but to make a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajax have sacked their manager Maurice Steijn after their poor performances in the Eredivisie. The club is sitting in the 17th position in the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":35411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[256,2352],"class_list":["post-13218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ajax","tag-eredivisie"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13218","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\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}