{"id":440209,"date":"2025-05-01T18:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=440209"},"modified":"2025-05-01T18:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:28:21","slug":"gordie-herbert-to-coach-canada-mens-national-team-starting-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/gordie-herbert-to-coach-canada-mens-national-team-starting-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordie Herbert to coach Canada Men&#8217;s National Team starting in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1367\" data-end=\"1622\"><strong data-start=\"1382\" data-end=\"1400\">Gordie Herbert<\/strong> has been named head coach of the <strong data-start=\"1434\" data-end=\"1464\">Canada Men&#8217;s National Team<\/strong>, starting in <strong data-start=\"1478\" data-end=\"1493\">summer 2026<\/strong>. The B.C.-born coach led Germany to a historic <strong data-start=\"1541\" data-end=\"1573\">FIBA World Cup title in 2023<\/strong> and will now guide Canada\u2019s \u201cgolden generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1624\" data-end=\"1805\">Herbert returns after prior stints with Canada Basketball and brings experience from <strong data-start=\"1709\" data-end=\"1716\">NBA<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1718\" data-end=\"1732\">EuroLeague<\/strong>, and national teams. \u201cIt\u2019s an honour to coach my home country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1807\" data-end=\"1968\">Canada, ranked <strong data-start=\"1822\" data-end=\"1853\">No. 6 in the FIBA standings<\/strong>, is targeting another Olympic medal run. Full staff and road to <strong data-start=\"1918\" data-end=\"1943\">FIBA 2027 and LA 2028<\/strong> will be announced later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Cup-winning coach with Germany will lead Canada\u2019s senior team toward the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":440208,"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,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[335,369],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-440209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada","category-national-teams","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/aLEr4ge-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440209"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=440209"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=440209"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=440209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}