{"id":31795,"date":"2026-08-22T10:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T14:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/soccer-david-badia-takes-charge-of-haitis-national-team\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T14:46:45","slug":"soccer-david-badia-takes-charge-of-haitis-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/soccer-david-badia-takes-charge-of-haitis-national-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer: David Bad\u00eda Takes Charge of Haiti&#8217;s National Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Haitian Football Federation (FHF) announced on Saturday the appointment of David Bad\u00eda as head coach of Haiti&#8217;s national team. The official announcement comes at just the right time for the Grenadiers, who are competing in the Concacaf Nations League.<\/p>\n<p>In a short video posted by the FHF on its Facebook page to introduce the new coach, Bad\u00eda addressed Haitian fans for the first time, using the team&#8217;s rallying cry: <em>&#8220;Grenadye Alaso!&#8221; before adding, &#8220;Men mwen&#8221; (Here I am).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bad\u00eda, a 51-year-old Spaniard, spent four years at FC Barcelona&#8217;s academy, where he held coaching and management roles between 2012 and 2016. He then joined the technical staffs of Fenerbah\u00e7e and Almer\u00eda as an assistant.<\/p>\n<p>As a head coach, Bad\u00eda has already managed clubs such as AEK Larnaca, Ethnikos Achna and Lechia Gda\u0144sk. He takes over the Grenadiers as Haiti begins a new chapter after qualifying for the 2026 World Cup under S\u00e9bastien Mign\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>The FHF gave no details about the length of the Spanish coach&#8217;s contract or the financial terms of his appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Bad\u00eda&#8217;s first test on the Grenadiers&#8217; bench will come in the Concacaf Nations League. Haiti face Trinidad and Tobago on September 24 before taking on Costa Rica three days later. Haiti&#8217;s group also includes Cura\u00e7ao, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic; the top two teams in each group will advance to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Haitian Football Federation (FHF) announced on Saturday the appointment of David Bad\u00eda as head coach of Haiti&#8217;s national team. The official announcement comes at just the right time for the Grenadiers, who are competing in the Concacaf Nations League. In a short video posted by the FHF on its Facebook page to introduce the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":29357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392,2400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sport","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}