{"id":58299,"date":"2025-10-23T00:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/sandy-brondello-to-coach-toronto-tempo-new-era-in-the-wnba\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T00:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:06:01","slug":"sandy-brondello-to-coach-toronto-tempo-new-era-in-the-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wnba\/sandy-brondello-to-coach-toronto-tempo-new-era-in-the-wnba\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Brondello to Coach Toronto Tempo: New Era in the WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sandy Brondello to Coach Toronto Tempo<\/h2>\n\n\nSandy Brondello has accepted the head coaching position for the Toronto Tempo, the WNBA expansion team, a source has confirmed.\n\nThe team is expected to make the official announcement in the coming days, once the contract is finalized.\n\nBrondello, who generated great interest from several organizations, finally decided on Toronto, a franchise that will begin competing in 2026 along with the other expansion team, the Portland Fire.\n\nThe Tempo games will be played at the Coca Cola Coliseum in Toronto, in addition to two regular season games in Montreal and two in Vancouver.\n\nBrondello has a distinguished career in the league, where she was selected for the All-Star as a player in 1999. As a coach, she led the Phoenix Mercury and the New York Liberty to win WNBA titles in 2014 and 2024, respectively. Her contract with the Liberty was not renewed after the elimination in the first round of the playoffs last season.\n\nIn addition, Brondello is the coach of the Australian national team, which she recently guided to the bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.\n\nWith the hiring of Brondello, the only remaining head coaching positions vacant are those of the Dallas Wings, the Seattle Storm, and the Liberty.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandy Brondello to Coach Toronto Tempo Sandy Brondello has accepted the head coaching position for the Toronto Tempo, the WNBA expansion team, a source has confirmed. The team is expected to make the official announcement in the coming days, once the contract is finalized. Brondello, who generated great interest from several organizations, finally decided on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[718,9125,10061,382],"class_list":{"0":"post-58299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wnba","7":"tag-coach","8":"tag-sandy-brondello","9":"tag-toronto-tempo","10":"tag-wnba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58299","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=58299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}