{"id":501482,"date":"2026-03-03T15:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501482\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:52:11","slug":"filipe-luis-ex-chelsea-defender-sacked-as-flamengo-manager-after-8-0-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501482\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipe Luis: Ex-Chelsea defender sacked as Flamengo manager after 8-0 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among his achievements Luis, who won the Premier League as part of Jose Mourinho&#8217;s Chelsea in 2015, guided Flamengo to Copa Libertadores glory in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In doing so, Luis became the ninth man to win the competition both as a player and as a coach, having claimed the trophy twice with Flamengo in 2019 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also claimed Serie A, Copa do Brasil, Supercopa do Brasil, Campeonato Carioca, Fifa Challenger Cup and Fifa Derby of the Americas honours during his tenure, having previously led Flamengo&#8217;s Under-17 and Under-20 sides to league titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flamengo also reached the last 16 of last summer&#8217;s Fifa Club World Cup, losing 4-2 to Bayern Munich after beating eventual winners Chelsea to top their group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Brazilians are 11th in the league table this season, having won one, drawn one and lost one from their first three matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They trail leaders Palmeiras by six points, albeit with a game in hand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among his achievements Luis, who won the Premier League as part of Jose Mourinho&#8217;s Chelsea in 2015, guided&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-501482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}