{"id":738960,"date":"2026-08-15T15:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T15:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738960\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T15:44:11","slug":"scotland-hope-to-name-39-year-old-pocognoli-as-successor-to-clarke-in-fresh-approach-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738960\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland hope to name 39-year-old Pocognoli as successor to Clarke in fresh approach | Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Scottish Football Association hopes to name the Belgian S\u00e9bastien Pocognoli as the successor to Steve Clarke as manager early next week. The 39-year-old, who was sacked by Monaco in June, will become the country\u2019s first non-Scottish manager since Berti Vogts, who was in charge from 2002-04.<\/p>\n

Clarke\u2019s abrupt departure <\/a>came as Scotland exited the World Cup<\/a> at the group stage. He had signed a four-year contract extension immediately before the tournament. It quickly became clear the SFA would turn towards a foreign manager; Jon Dahl Tomasson and Kasper Hjulmand were linked with the position.<\/p>\n

Pocognoli will probably be welcomed by Scotland<\/a> fans in respect of a fresh approach. Clarke was in position for a generally successful seven years, but was often criticised for a pragmatic style.<\/p>\n

After a period in youth coaching, Pocognoli enjoyed a successful time in charge of Union Saint-Gilloise in his homeland. Under Pocognoli, Union won their first title in 90 years in 2025. A move to Monaco followed, but Pocognoli lasted eight months and 38 games in France.<\/p>\n

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Scotland begin their Nations League campaign with the visit to Slovenia on 26 September. Pocognoli\u2019s first home game in charge will be Switzerland\u2019s visit to Glasgow three days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scottish Football Association hopes to name the Belgian S\u00e9bastien Pocognoli as the successor to Steve Clarke as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-738960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738960","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=738960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}