{"id":35024,"date":"2024-06-01T08:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T08:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/rivers-united-confirm-egumas-dismissal-appoint-ogenyi-interim-coach\/"},"modified":"2024-06-01T08:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T08:03:33","slug":"rivers-united-confirm-egumas-dismissal-appoint-ogenyi-interim-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/rivers-united-confirm-egumas-dismissal-appoint-ogenyi-interim-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers United confirm Eguma\u2019s dismissal, appoint Ogenyi interim coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rivers United have confirmed the sacking of their head coach, Stanley Eguma, reports DAILY POST.<\/p>\n<p>Eguma, who was the long-serving coach in the Nigeria Premier Football League, was sacked due to the club\u2019s poor form.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, the Port Harcourt club also announced that Evan Ogenyi will take charge of the team in an interim capacity until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Management of Rivers United FC officially announces the termination of Coach Stanley Eguma\u2019s appointment as Technical Manager of the Club,\u201d reads a statement signed by the club\u2019s media officer, Charles Mayuku.<img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1101391\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240601_072023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240601_072023.jpg 960w, https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240601_072023-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSubsequently, Coach Evans Ogenyi, the club\u2019s Chief Coach, has been appointed in an acting capacity as the head coach of the Club until the end of 2023\/2024 Nigeria Premier Football League Season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision is in pursuit of a new direction aimed at achieving the objectives and goals of the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, we convey our gratitude to Coach Eguma for his services to the club and wish him the very best in his future endeavours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rivers United confirm Eguma\u2019s dismissal, appoint Ogenyi interim coach<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers United have confirmed the sacking of their head coach, Stanley Eguma, reports DAILY POST. Eguma, who was the long-serving&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6585,15,11366,3414,160],"tags":[287,613,3761,16290,6586,16292,16291,180,11367,105,201,305],"class_list":["post-35024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eguma","category-news","category-ogenyi","category-rivers-united","category-sport","tag-appoint","tag-coach","tag-confirm","tag-dismissal","tag-eguma","tag-egumas","tag-interim","tag-news","tag-ogenyi","tag-rivers","tag-sport","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}