{"id":257191,"date":"2025-11-11T17:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/257191\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:49:13","slug":"wilfried-nancy-who-is-the-reported-celtic-manager-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/257191\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilfried Nancy: Who is the reported Celtic manager target?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic are on the hunt for a new manager, and it is reported that Wilfried Nancy is on their shortlist &#8211; but who is the Major League Soccer manager?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 48-year-old, born in Le Havre, France, became head coach at Ohio club Columbus Crew in 2022, and since then has won the MLS Cup and Leagues Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also led the Crew to the Concacaf Champions Cup final and was named the MLS Manager of the year in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the 2025 season, Crew won 14 and drawn 12 of the 34 games played in the MLS, but lost to Cincinnati in Round One of the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prior to that, the Frenchman took over the head coach role at Montreal, in 2021, from Thierry Henry. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He managed the club until 2022, winning the Canadian Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former defender played in lower league French clubs including Toulon, before he moved to Canada to play for the University of Quebec in Montreal college club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After retiring from playing, Nancy coached the youth teams in Montreal and became the assistant coach in 2016, eventually becoming head coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic are on the hunt for a new manager, and it is reported that Wilfried Nancy is on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-257191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}