{"id":346561,"date":"2026-07-20T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346561\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:32:07","slug":"orlando-pride-assistant-coach-giles-barnes-headed-to-al-qadsiah-fc-saudi-womens-premier-league-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346561\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Pride Assistant Coach Giles Barnes headed to Al\u00a0Qadsiah\u00a0FC (Saudi Women\u2019s Premier League) as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Today, the Orlando Pride have announced that assistant coach Giles Barnes will be departing to club to become the new head coach of Al Qadsiah FC of the Saudi Women\u2019s Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Barnes originally joined the club in 2022 alongside Seb Hines for the final 15 games. His interim basis was made permanent ahead of the 2023 season. The coaching staff has brought Orlando into excellence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">He helped lead the Pride to the 2024 double: championship and shield. The team also qualified for playoffs in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, the Orlando Pride have announced that assistant coach Giles Barnes will be departing to club to become&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8216,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-346561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-nwsl","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}