{"id":599498,"date":"2026-04-12T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599498\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:02:08","slug":"cf-montreal-fires-head-coach-marco-donadel-after-ugly-start-to-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599498\/","title":{"rendered":"CF\u00a0Montreal\u00a0fires head coach Marco Donadel after ugly start to season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CF Montr\u00e9al fired head coach Marco Donadel on Sunday after an ugly start to the Major League Soccer season.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal lost for the sixth time in seven games to begin the 2026 campaign Saturday, falling 2-1 to the Philadelphia Union in its home opener at Stade Saputo.<\/p>\n<p>No players or coaches were made available to reporters after the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Philippe Eullaffroy will replace Donadel on an interim basis while assistant coaches Jacopo Falanga and Lorenzo Pinzauti have also been let go, the club announced.<\/p>\n<p>Donadel\u2019s tenure as head coach lasted just over a year, having replaced Laurent Courtois on March 24, 2025. CF Montr\u00e9al posted a 7-20-9 record in MLS under his watch.<\/p>\n<p>Donadel was CF Montr\u00e9al\u2019s 11th head coach since the club joined MLS in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CF Montr\u00e9al fired head coach Marco Donadel on Sunday after an ugly start to the Major League Soccer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-599498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599498","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=599498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}