{"id":57769,"date":"2025-10-22T11:43:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/terry-dreams-of-managing-chelsea-its-my-ultimate-dream\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:43:04","slug":"terry-dreams-of-managing-chelsea-its-my-ultimate-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/terry-dreams-of-managing-chelsea-its-my-ultimate-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry dreams of managing Chelsea: “It’s my ultimate dream”"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Terry: The Dream of Managing Chelsea<\/h2>\n\nJohn Terry, Chelsea legend, has expressed his desire to manage the club that saw him grow. After a successful playing career, the former captain has as his “ultimate dream” to become the team’s coach.\n\nTerry, who defended Chelsea’s colors for 22 years, became the most successful captain in the club’s history, guiding the team to glory in the Champions League and the Premier League.\n\nThe footballer, who played 717 matches with Chelsea, was only surpassed by Ron Harris in terms of matches played. Terry shared a dressing room with coaches of the stature of Jos\u00e9 Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti and Antonio Conte.\n\nTerry’s experience and leadership suggest he could be a natural candidate to lead Chelsea, although that opportunity has not materialized so far.\n\nHis former teammate and close friend, Frank Lampard, had two spells as Chelsea manager, with mixed results. This situation fuels Terry’s dream, who was assistant coach at Aston Villa between 2018 and 2021.\n\n\n
\"John<\/figure>\n\n\nJohn Terry won five Premier League titles with Chelsea.<\/em>\n\nIn his TikTok account, Terry stated: “I don’t know if it will ever happen, to be honest, it’s my ultimate dream at the football club.”\n\nThe former center-back added: “I have done everything at Chelsea and, for me, the only thing missing is being the club’s coach, that’s why I dedicated myself to coaching after retiring, because my dream was to go out and learn my trade a little.”\n\nTerry retired after 22 years as a player and stated that he learned enough to dedicate himself to coaching, considering the level at which he played and the coaches he had.\n\nThe former Chelsea player left the club in 2017 to join Aston Villa. After a season at Villa Park, Terry dedicated himself to coaching.\n\nTerry admitted that he doesn’t consider himself an “incredible coach”, and believes he would be better off surrounded by great coaches as a technical director.\n\n\n
\"John<\/figure>\n\n\nJohn Terry joined Aston Villa as an assistant coach after captaining Chelsea under Jos\u00e9 Mourinho.<\/em>\n\nTerry commented: “There’s a lot more on the training side, so I left, learned my trade, and then had incredible moments at Villa, and then I became number 1.”\n\nTerry concluded by saying that he is not sure if he will ever have the opportunity to fulfill his final dream in football.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Terry: The Dream of Managing Chelsea John Terry, Chelsea legend, has expressed his desire to manage the club that saw him grow. After a successful playing career, the former captain has as his “ultimate dream” to become the team’s coach. Terry, who defended Chelsea’s colors for 22 years, became the most successful captain in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[220,9002,10041,1284],"class_list":{"0":"post-57769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-chelsea","8":"tag-dream","9":"tag-john-terry","10":"tag-manager"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}