{"id":5916,"date":"2026-07-09T13:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/10.0.0.2\/wordpress\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2026-07-09T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:37:37","slug":"rafael-marquez-named-coach-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/rafael-marquez-named-coach-of-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael M\u00e1rquez named coach of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Mexican Football Federation (FMF) has officially announced the appointment of Rafael M\u00e1rquez as the head coach of Mexico, replacing Javier Aguirre, whose contract ended after the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Mexican Football Federation (FMF) has officially announced the appointment of Rafael M\u00e1rquez as the coach of Mexico, replacing Javier Aguirre, whose contract ended after the 2026 World Cup. The announcement was made by the Mexican National Team in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Former captain of La Tri and Aguirre&#8217;s assistant since 2024, M\u00e1rquez is continuing the FMF&#8217;s sporting project with an eye on the cycle leading to the 2030 World Cup. The Federation praised Javier Aguirre&#8217;s work, who leaves his role after winning the 2025 CONCACAF Nations League, the 2025 Gold Cup, and leading Mexico to the round of 16 in the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mexican Football Federation (FMF) has officially announced the appointment of Rafael M\u00e1rquez as the head coach of Mexico, replacing Javier Aguirre, whose contract ended after the 2026 World Cup.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_aifi_custom_prompt":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,52],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-5916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news-sport","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5918,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions\/5918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}