{"id":1300,"date":"2021-06-28T23:50:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T22:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bournemouthtoday.com\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2021-06-28T23:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T22:50:45","slug":"scott-parker-appointed-afc-bournemouth-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/scott-parker-appointed-afc-bournemouth-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Parker appointed AFC Bournemouth head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Parker has been appointed as the new head coach at AFC Bournemouth<!--more-->.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old former Fulham boss has put pen to paper on a three-year contract at Vitality Stadium and will be joined by five new members of staff.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Wells will be assistant head coach, with Rob Burch the club\u2019s first team goalkeeping coach. Alastair Harris joins as head of performance, while Charlie Moore is lead physical performance coach and Jonathan Hill first team head analyst.<\/p>\n<p>A central midfielder by trade, Parker began his career at Charlton Athletic before featuring for Chelsea, Newcastle United, West Ham United, Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham, retiring in the summer of 2017 with 572 club appearances under his belt.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he won 18 senior England caps, featuring at Euro 2012 and captaining his nation.<\/p>\n<p>Having hung up his boots, Parker returned to Spurs to take his first steps in coaching with their under-18s squad.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve months later he was appointed first team coach at another of his former clubs, Fulham, and having stepped up to a caretaker manager role, was permanently appointed as the Cottagers\u2019 manager in May 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Parker\u2019s first full season in charge at Craven Cottage saw him secure promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs and he went on to memorably inspire Fulham to a victory over champions Liverpool in March.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Get to know our new gaffer \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AFC Bournemouth \ud83c\udf52 (@afcbournemouth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/afcbournemouth\/status\/1409621780919209988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe this is the perfect fit for both parties,\u201d Parker told afcbTV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m familiar with Bournemouth because of my relationship with Harry Arter. It\u2019s a football club I know well from watching him over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ethos, the reputation, the journey and the challenge here is something that\u2019s very exciting for me and my staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to build a team the fans can be proud of and one they feel represents them. We can\u2019t wait to get started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AFC Bournemouth chief executive Neill Blake said: \u201cIt has been a long process but I am delighted to finally get our man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScott has always been our number one choice for this role and someone whose coaching career we have taken a keen interest in since his first steps in Tottenham Hotspur\u2019s academy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver a period of time he has proven himself as one of the best young head coaches in the country; someone who has a clear philosophy on how he wants to play and knows what it takes to win promotion from the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScott is fully invested in the long-term project in front of us here, and this is the start of an exciting new period for this club.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Parker has been appointed as the new head coach at AFC Bournemouth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bournemouth","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}