{"id":23948,"date":"2025-09-24T09:41:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/zora-gives-the-role-of-the-ryder-cup-and-supports-team-europe-coaches\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:41:44","slug":"zora-gives-the-role-of-the-ryder-cup-and-supports-team-europe-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/zora-gives-the-role-of-the-ryder-cup-and-supports-team-europe-coaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Zora gives the role of the Ryder Cup and supports team Europe coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Italian and Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola has become part of Team Europe&#8217;s set-up for the 2025 Ryder Cup, focusing on coaching advice from Lori McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Rose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Zora will serve as the official buggy driver for Team Europe&#8217;s vice captain Francesco Morinali. Zora is a huge golf fan and is said to be a long-term friend of Morinari.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Zora also weighed on coaching advice and told players how to deal with the pressure and noise from the crowd.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, you have to enter some sort of protection bubble, and that&#8217;s one of the first things you learn when you play football, because that&#8217;s the environment you&#8217;re in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The 59-year-old was last involved in professional football in 2019. He served under Maurizio Sari, the boss of Lazio at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Now Zora will get a taste of his first actions in the world of professional golf, although not as a member of the staff, rather than as a player or coach. The Ryder Cup will be held from Thursday, May 24th to Sunday, May 27th.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The European team consists of Rory McIlroy, Robert McInteel, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose, Rasmus Hodgegard, Tyrrell Hutton, Shane Laurie, Sep Straka, Rudig Aberg, Victor Hofland, Matt Fitzpatrick and John Laurm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian and Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola has become part of Team Europe&#8217;s set-up for the 2025 Ryder Cup, focusing on coaching advice from Lori McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Rose. Zora will serve as the official buggy driver for Team Europe&#8217;s vice captain Francesco Morinali. Zora is a huge golf fan and is said to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-23948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}