{"id":13548,"date":"2024-02-20T20:37:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T15:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=401302"},"modified":"2024-02-20T20:37:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T15:07:28","slug":"napoli-to-take-a-surprising-decision-ahead-of-their-ucl-clash-against-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/napoli-to-take-a-surprising-decision-ahead-of-their-ucl-clash-against-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoli to take a surprising decision ahead of their UCL clash against Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Napoli are set to part ways with their manager Walter Mazzarri ahead of their UCL round of 16 Leg 1 clash against Barcelona. The club Napoli has decided to sack Walter Mazzarri, who joined the club at the beginning of the season, failed to meet the high expectations set by both the fans and the club\u2019s ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Despite high hopes surrounding Mazzarri\u2019s appointment, Napoli struggled to find consistency under his management. The team\u2019s performance in domestic competitions, coupled with a lackluster showing in the Champions League group stage, raised concerns among the Napoli fans.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to part ways with Mazzarri just before a crucial European fixture highlights the urgency felt by the club to address the managerial situation. Napoli\u2019s ambitions in the Champions League looks destroyed by their recent struggles, and a change in leadership is deemed necessary to improve their performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napoli are set to part ways with their manager Walter Mazzarri ahead of their UCL round of 16 Leg 1 clash against Barcelona. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":35637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[179,671],"class_list":["post-13548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-napoli","tag-serie-a"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13548","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=13548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}