Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira joins Serie A club as new manager

Patrick Vieira has go the caller caput manager of Genoa aft the Serie A nine sacked Alberto Gilardino.

Arsenal fable Vieira has been retired of absorption since leaving Ligue 1 broadside Strasbourg successful the summer.

Genoa, meanwhile, person endured a pugnacious commencement to their Serie A season, winning conscionable 2 of their 12 games nether Gilardino.

The erstwhile AC Milan, Fiorentina and Italy striker became Genoa’s caput manager successful December 2022 and guided the squad to promotion from Serie B to Serie A conscionable 5 months later.

Genoa finished 11th successful Serie A past play but six defeats successful 12 league games has resulted successful Gilardino being replaced.

Strasbourg finished 12th successful Ligue 1 past play nether Vieira but the 48-year-old near by communal consent successful the summertime owed to disagreements with the club’s hierarchy implicit subordinate recruitment and the enactment of method staff.

Vieira has besides managed Manchester City’s improvement squad, New York City FC, Nice and Crystal Palace.

He was sacked by Palace successful March past twelvemonth pursuing a tally of 12 games without a win.

In his archetypal play astatine Palace, Vieira guided the squad to a 12th-placed decorativeness successful the Premier League and was praised for his side’s attacking benignant of play.

Vieira’s archetypal crippled arsenic Genoa’s caller caput manager volition beryllium against Cagliari connected Sunday.

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