{"id":2807,"date":"2026-05-01T13:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:48:05","slug":"chelsea-considering-conte-return-footie-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2807","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea considering Conte return &#8211; Footie Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18057\" src=\"https:\/\/www.footiecentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chelsea-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"chelsea fc\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.footiecentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chelsea-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.footiecentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chelsea-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.footiecentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chelsea.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea are considering bringing back Antonio Conte as manager to replace the sacked Liam Rosenior.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Italian\u2019s first spell as Chelsea manager which lasted between 2016 and 2018 saw him win both the Premier League and FA Cup, but he was sacked after failing to secure Champions League qualification.<\/p>\n<p>He then took charge of Inter Milan, winning Serie A, with them, before an unhappy spell at Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2024, he has been in charge of <strong>Napoli<\/strong>and, last season, became the first man to win the Scudetto with three different clubs.<\/p>\n<p>However, with his future less than guaranteed after they have failed to defend their title, he could yet again be available, although he is also been linked with the vacancy for Italian national team boss.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are considering bringing back Antonio Conte as manager to replace the sacked Liam Rosenior&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}