{"id":137262,"date":"2025-09-11T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137262\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:33:00","slug":"venezuela-and-peru-fire-coaches-after-failing-to-qualify-for-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137262\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela and Peru fire coaches after failing to qualify for World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARACAS, Venezuela \u2014 Venezuela has fired coach Fernando Batista after the men&#8217;s national team failed \u2014 again \u2014 to\u00a0qualify for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela, the only South American team to have never competed in a World Cup, arrived at the last round of qualifiers needing a win over Colombia to secure the seventh place in the standings that grants a spot in the international playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>But Batista\u2019s team lost 6-3, and\u00a0Bolivia defeated Brazil 1-0\u00a0to secure the ticket for the 2026 World Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela&#8217;s soccer federation said late Wednesday the 55-year-old Batista, who spent 20 months at the helm, was fired \u201cdue to the fact that the objectives in this cycle were not achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peru fired coach Oscar Ibanez after the team finished ninth in the 10-country South American competition. Only Chile had a worse campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old Ibanez, who was appointed as interim coach after Jorge Fossati was fired, won just one of six matches.<\/p>\n<p>Peru last played in a World Cup in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay, Colombia and Paraguay have qualified for next summer&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARACAS, Venezuela \u2014 Venezuela has fired coach Fernando Batista after the men&#8217;s national team failed \u2014 again \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-137262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}