{"id":148659,"date":"2025-11-29T12:21:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=148659"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:21:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:21:29","slug":"sports-minutes-gavin-lee-officially-named-singapore-mens-national-team-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=148659","title":{"rendered":"Sports Minutes: Gavin Lee officially named Singapore Men&#8217;s National Team Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5F3j38Vuo9k?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>It\u2019s official &#8211; 35-year-old Singaporean Gavin Lee has been named head coach of the Singapore Men\u2019s National Team, just a week after guiding the Lions to historic Asian Cup qualification. Fresh off signing an 18-month deal that takes him through the 2026 Asean Championship and the 2027 Asian Cup, Gavin joins Sports Minutes to discuss his rise from interim to in-charge, from failed footballer to in-demand tactician, and from managing Tampines to taking on the biggest job in Singapore football.<\/p>\n<p>Got a story to tell? Get in touch!<br \/>\nraushan@sph.com.sg<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5F3j38Vuo9k\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official &#8211; 35-year-old Singaporean Gavin Lee has been named head coach of the Singapore Men\u2019s National Team, just a week after guiding the Lions to historic Asian Cup qualification&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9812,"featured_media":148660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-how-to-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}