{"id":1830,"date":"2024-01-19T21:44:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T21:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/sporting-kc-part-ways-with-sporting-director-gavin-wilkinson-after-eight-days\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T21:44:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T21:44:54","slug":"sporting-kc-part-ways-with-sporting-director-gavin-wilkinson-after-eight-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/sporting-kc-part-ways-with-sporting-director-gavin-wilkinson-after-eight-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Sporting KC part ways with sporting director Gavin Wilkinson after eight days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sporting KC sack sporting director amid supporter backlashWilliamson was implicated in scandal with NWSL\u2019s Thorns<\/p>\n<p>Sporting Kansas City have agreed to part ways with sporting director Gavin Wilkinson after only eight days, citing an \u201cimpassioned response from our fans\u201d regarding the controversial hire, the team announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkinson, the former president and general manager of the NWSL\u2019s Portland Thorns, was fired by the team in 2022 after separate investigations into the handling of coach misconduct. Wilkinson\u2019s name surfaced in the coverup of sexual harassment allegations against former Thorns coach Paul Riley.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2024\/jan\/19\/sporting-kc-fire-gavin-williamson-sporting-director\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sporting KC sack sporting director amid supporter backlashWilliamson was implicated in scandal with NWSL\u2019s Thorns Sporting Kansas City have agreed to part ways with sporting director Gavin Wilkinson after only eight days, citing an \u201cimpassioned response from our fans\u201d regarding the controversial hire, the team announced Friday. Wilkinson, the former president and general manager of &#8230; <a title=\"Sporting KC part ways with sporting director Gavin Wilkinson after eight days\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/sporting-kc-part-ways-with-sporting-director-gavin-wilkinson-after-eight-days\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sporting KC part ways with sporting director Gavin Wilkinson after eight days\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}