{"id":839362,"date":"2026-08-01T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839362\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T01:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:27:11","slug":"calgary-wild-head-coach-granted-leave-of-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839362\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Wild head coach granted leave of absence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Calgary Wild’s Ally Green, back right, and Kahli Johnson celebrate a goal against Vancouver Rise in Burnaby, B.C., earlier this year.DARRYL DYCK\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Calgary Wild FC head coach Leah Blayney has been granted a leave of absence to attend to a private family matter, the Northern Super League club announced Friday.<\/p>\n

The Wild said in a statement it \u201cfully supports\u201d Blayney and asked for privacy.<\/p>\n

Blayney, a former Australian midfielder, was hired by Calgary on July 6 following an 0-7-2 start under assistant Sinead McSharry, who served as interim head coach after Lydia Bedford left earlier this year to work with England\u2019s under-23 team.<\/p>\n

The Wild have lost all four matches with Blayney in charge.<\/p>\n

Assistant coach Kory Babington, who was only hired last week and is also Australian, will take over on the sidelines in her absence.<\/p>\n

Calgary, which went 9-14-2 in the NSL\u2019s inaugural 2025 season, hosts AFC Toronto (6-4-3) on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Calgary Wild’s Ally Green, back right, and Kahli Johnson celebrate a goal against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,2798,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-839362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839362","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=839362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}