{"id":417224,"date":"2026-09-14T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=417224"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:40:45","slug":"brazilian-football-club-hires-coach-from-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-football-club-hires-coach-from-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian football club hires coach from Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazilian football club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/monsoon_fc_\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/monsoon_fc_\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monsoon<\/a>, from the coastal city of Cap\u00e3o da Canoa in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, has hired a coach from Bahrain to lead the team in the 2027 Campeonato Ga\u00facho, the top division of football in the state. The club announced Aref Al-Asmi as the coach of its professional team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monsoon said on social media that Aref has more than 18 years of experience, having worked in football in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan, coaching professional and youth teams. According to the club, he has won titles in the Bahraini League, the King\u2019s Cup, the Super Cup, and the FA Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOf course, I\u2019m happy and proud to have this opportunity to come to Brazil and be part of Monsoon. Brazil is the country of football. I love Brazil and its players very much. This job is a great challenge. I come from Bahrain with enthusiasm and ambition. I will bring my experience and working methods to help Monsoon develop, improve its game, and achieve the goals of its supporters and management. I believe in this project,\u201d the coach said in a video released by the club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monsoon will compete in Rio Grande do Sul\u2019s top football division for the third time in 2027, after winning the Campeonato Ga\u00facho S\u00e9rie A2 in 2024. The club is relatively new, having been founded in 2021. The Rio Grande do Sul press reported that Monsoon had Arab capital at the time of its founding, but that changed last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read also:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-teams-world-cup-standings\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-teams-world-cup-standings\/\">Arab teams\u2019 World Cup standings<br><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-417225\">Facebook\/Monsoon<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monsoon announced that Aref Al-Asmi will coach its men\u2019s professional football team, which will compete in the Campeonato Ga\u00facho in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":417225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[58056,3971,13877,9534,3260,13752,57688,27943,38019],"class_list":{"0":"post-417224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aref-al-asmi","9":"tag-bahrain","10":"tag-bahrein-en","11":"tag-brazil-en","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-futebol-ar","14":"tag-monsoon","15":"tag-rio-grande-do-sul-en-2","16":"tag-tecnico-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Monsoon announced that Aref Al-Asmi will coach its men\u2019s professional football team, which will compete in the Campeonato Ga\u00facho in 2027.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417229,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417224\/revisions\/417229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}