Well here\u2019s some fun news! Former Tottenham Hotspur striker Jermain Defoe has landed his first head coaching job as the new manager of National League side Woking FC.<\/p>\n
JD Trouble, OBE, is known as one of Spurs\u2019 best strikers. He\u2019s seventh on the club\u2019s all-time scoring list with 143 goals, scored over two different stints at the club. A couple of years ago he came back to Spurs to work in Tottenham\u2019s academy, where he ended up managing the U18s before leaving in December 2024. He\u2019s worked as a TV pundit in the interim while completing his coaching badges, and now will get his first shot at the big chair, working with a Woking side that\u2019s currently mid-table in the fifth division.<\/p>\n
In a statement on the club\u2019s website, Woking chairman Todd Johnson said they have big expectations of Defoe and that he impressed them in his interviews.<\/p>\n
\u201dJermain\u2019s achievements as a player speak for themselves, but what stood out to us during the process was how he sees the game, how he drives standards, and his approach to leadership and player development.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a clear plan for where we want to go as a club, and we believe Jermain is the right person to build on the strong foundations already in place and help take us forward in the next phase of that journey.\u201d<\/p>\n
The announcement comes on the same day that Tottenham announced the departure of Igor Tudor by mutual consent. Defoe will take place in an introductory press conference on Wednesday. Woking host Altrincham on Tuesday, and it\u2019s assumed that will be Defoe\u2019s first match on the sidelines with his new club.<\/p>\n
Congratulations, Jermain Defoe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well here\u2019s some fun news! Former Tottenham Hotspur striker Jermain Defoe has landed his first head coaching job…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[246079,403,99],"class_list":["post-553600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-other-epl-news-and-rumors","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553600","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=553600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}