{"id":13688,"date":"2026-08-15T18:13:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=13688"},"modified":"2026-08-15T18:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:13:55","slug":"belgian-pocognoli-lined-up-as-new-scotland-coach-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=13688","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Pocognoli lined up as new Scotland coach \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Sebastien Pocognoli: destined for Hampden Park<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Former Monaco head coach Sebastien Pocognoli has emerged as the likely to successor to Steve Clarke and his appointment could be confirmed this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Scottish FA is pursuing the 39-year-old Belgian, who left Monaco at the end of last season. In 2024-45 he led Union Saint-Gilloise to the Belgian league title, its first for 90 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He is now among the candidates spoken to by Scottish FA chief executive Ian Maxwell and chief football officer Craig Mulholland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Clarke ended his seven-year tenure after Scotland failed to make progress from the initial stages of the World Cup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A replacement is thought to be imminent, with a four-game group of fixtures in the Nations Cup starting in Slovenia on 26 September. The first game at Hampden will be against Switzerland three days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Pocognoli\u2019s playing career, included spells with West Bromwich Albion and Brighton &amp; Hove Albion, and he earned 13 caps for Belgium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He would become the second foreign coach of the Scotland men\u2019s team, after German Berti Vogts. Jon Dahl Tomasson and Kasper Hjulmand have also been linked with the position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It is thought Steven Naismith, who served as one of his assistants,\u00a0will stay on.<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Belgian #Pocognoli #lined #Scotland #coach #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastien Pocognoli: destined for Hampden Park Former Monaco head coach Sebastien Pocognoli has emerged as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[19406,272,913,306,4614,19407,1518,1054,19405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}