{"id":337120,"date":"2025-12-10T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337120\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:18:11","slug":"decorated-soccer-manager-vanni-sartini-named-head-coach-gm-of-halifax-wanderers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337120\/","title":{"rendered":"Decorated soccer manager Vanni Sartini named head coach, GM of Halifax Wanderers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The Halifax Wanderers have announced former Vancouver Whitecaps manager Vanni Sartini as the club\u2019s new head coach \u2014 a move that some in the Canadian soccer community are calling the biggest coaching signing in Canadian Premier League history.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765086924_279_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The new appointment comes after the Wanderers parted ways with former manager Patrice Gheisar in October, following a disappointing exit during the play-in round of the Canadian Premier League playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765086925_518_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Santini, who led the Vancouver Whitecaps to three consecutive Canadian Championship titles between 2022 and 2024, comes with plenty of experience.<\/p>\n<p>The decorated Italian manager, widely known for his tactics and entertaining press conferences, brought the Whitecaps to three playoff appearances in Major League Soccer during his three-and-a-half year stint.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Sartini\u2019s leadership, the Whitecaps had only qualified for the post-season on four occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Since beginning his coaching career in 2008, Sartini worked with his country\u2019s national football federation before spending time on the coaching staff of several teams in Serie B, the second-highest division of Italian soccer, before making his move to North America.<\/p>\n<p>Sartini watched the Vancouver Whitecaps from afar this season as his former team made it to three finals. He was fired from the club in November 2024 after a first-round playoff loss to Los Angeles FC.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Halifax Wanderers have announced former Vancouver Whitecaps manager Vanni&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,13951,561,82,25424,147969],"class_list":{"0":"post-337120","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-halifax-wanderers","11":"tag-soccer","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-vancouver-whitecaps","14":"tag-vanni-sartini"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337120","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=337120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}