{"id":226733,"date":"2026-03-13T01:24:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-paulo-saraiva-becomes-new-football-coach-of-sporting-de-luanda\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:24:53","slug":"angola-paulo-saraiva-becomes-new-football-coach-of-sporting-de-luanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-paulo-saraiva-becomes-new-football-coach-of-sporting-de-luanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Paulo Saraiva Becomes New Football Coach of Sporting De Luanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Luanda \u2014 Sporting de Luanda, on Monday in the capital city, presented Paulo Saraiva as the new coach of its main football team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Paulo Saraiva, who replaces Patr\u00edcio Correia, aims to qualify the team for the top division championship, also dubbed &#8220;Girabola&#8221;, a goal set by the club for the 2026\/27 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Sporting de Luanda plays in the national second division championship, currently in fourth place in Group A with 10 points. The group is led by Redonda FC with 18 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603120781.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 Sporting de Luanda, on Monday in the capital city, presented Paulo Saraiva as the new coach of its main football team. Paulo Saraiva, who replaces Patr\u00edcio Correia, aims to qualify the team for the top division championship, also dubbed &#8220;Girabola&#8221;, a goal set by the club for the 2026\/27 season. Sporting de Luanda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,7346,3299,3938,257,20269,53893,254,10353],"class_list":["post-226733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-coach","tag-football","tag-luanda","tag-news","tag-paulo","tag-saraiva","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sporting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}