{"id":457768,"date":"2019-06-14T06:52:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T10:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=457768"},"modified":"2019-06-14T06:54:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T10:54:36","slug":"middlesbrough-jonathan-woodgate-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/06\/14\/middlesbrough-jonathan-woodgate-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlesbrough Confirm Jonathan Woodgate As Their New Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middlesbrough have confirmed former defender <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Boro\/status\/1139442408679256064\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Woodgate as their new manager<\/a>\u00a0on a three-year contract. The 39-year-old replaces <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/05\/17\/tony-pulis-sacked-by-middlesbrough-after-16-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tony Pulis, who left following the end of the season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1>Jonathan Woodgate New Middlesbrough Manager<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MFC are delighted to confirm that Jonathan Woodgate will head up a new-look senior coaching team ?\u26aa\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UTB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#UTB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Middlesbrough FC (@Boro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Boro\/status\/1139442408679256064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jonathan Woodgate &#8211; Playing Career<\/h2>\n<p>The Middlesbrough-born defender began his career in the academy. However, he left at an early age to join Leeds United. He made 104 appearances for Leeds, before departing for the north-east again to join Newcastle United.<\/p>\n<p>Woodgate then spent two years with <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/newcastle-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newcastle United<\/a> and a year with Spanish giants <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/real-madrid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real Madrid<\/a> before returning home to Middlesbrough. He first returned on loan, before signing a four-year deal in April 2007.<\/p>\n<p>However, Jonathan Woodgate only lasted a further nine months at Middlesbrough as he joined <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/feeds\/tottenhamfootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> in January 2008. It was at Tottenham where he won his only silverware as a player. He scored the winning goal as Tottenham defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/feeds\/chelseafootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea<\/a> in the 2008 League Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>Woodgate and Middlesbrough would eventually be reunited once more though, as he signed a three-year contract in 2012. He made 57 appearance, before retiring in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Woodgate also had a short international career with England, making a total of eight appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The former central defender did suffer a number of recurring injuries throughout his career. Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/23863988\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC Sport<\/a> in 2013, he believes the injuries stopped from achieving his full potential.<\/p>\n<h2>Coaching Career<\/h2>\n<p>Middlesbrough will be Jonathan Woodgate&#8217;s first job as a manager. However, he has been part of the coaching set-up under two previous managers. He was an assistant coach to Steve Agnew during their last spell in the Premier League. Woodgate held the same role under the previous manager, Pulis.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that former Tottenham striker Robbie Keane will join Woodgate as his assistant manager. The pair were former team-mates at Leeds and Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>Keane is currently assistant manager of the Republic of Ireland national team but will combine both roles.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <a id=\"suTck2M9RgdKfeFG7Cdr0w\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/919360648\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'suTck2M9RgdKfeFG7Cdr0w',sig:'QTNzwr7CPd_r8_0zMKLOwyrDyeW3rFSi7ZypmPdyz1M=',w:'594px',h:'416px',items:'919360648',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middlesbrough have confirmed former defender Jonathan Woodgate as their new manager\u00a0on a three-year contract. The 39-year-old replaces Tony Pulis, who left following the end of the season. Jonathan Woodgate New Middlesbrough Manager &nbsp; MFC are delighted to confirm that Jonathan Woodgate will head up a new-look senior coaching team ?\u26aa\ufe0f #UTB \u2014 Middlesbrough FC (@Boro) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":458682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,19],"tags":[197,168,3857,347,96,136],"class_list":["post-457768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-middlesborough","tag-championship","tag-efl","tag-jonathan-woodgate","tag-middlesbrough","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}