{"id":3926,"date":"2023-12-06T13:23:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T13:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/cosmin-contra-i-guaranteed-al-ittihad-would-win-the-league-based-on-my-work-there\/"},"modified":"2023-12-06T13:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T13:23:43","slug":"cosmin-contra-i-guaranteed-al-ittihad-would-win-the-league-based-on-my-work-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/cosmin-contra-i-guaranteed-al-ittihad-would-win-the-league-based-on-my-work-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmin Contra: I guaranteed Al-Ittihad would win the league based on my work there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nKHAMIS MUSHAYT: Cosmin Contra has opened up about his departure from Al-Ittihad after missing out on the Saudi Pro League title in 2022, and how he always believed the club would become champions thanks to his efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe much-travelled Romanian coach took over at Damac in March and is now preparing to face his old club on Thursday night in Jeddah.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nDamac are currently eighth in the standings, while Al-Ittihad have risen to fourth in recent weeks under new coach Marcelo Gallardo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nTalking to Arab News, Contra revealed what motivates him while coaching a club not in the hunt for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2421076\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHAMIS MUSHAYT: Cosmin Contra has opened up about his departure from Al-Ittihad after missing out on the Saudi Pro League title in 2022, and how he always believed the club would become champions thanks to his efforts. The much-travelled Romanian coach took over at Damac in March and is now preparing to face his old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports","7":"category-sports-ar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}