Chelsea icon hands in resignation as coach after 18 years at the club

Chelsea’s goalkeeping manager Henrique Hilario has handed successful his resignation aft being astatine the nine for 18 years, according to reports.

Hilario has decided to swap Chelsea for the aforesaid relation with England, wherever helium is acceptable to enactment nether former Blues brag Thomas Tuchel.

It is thought that the 49-year-old was unfastened to a occupation stock but Chelsea were unhappy with that statement and volition present look to regenerate Hilario.

That’s according to The Telegraph, who study that Hilario’s resignation has present been made official.

Hilario archetypal arrived astatine Stamford Bridge successful 2006 and the Portuguese ‘keeper stayed successful westbound London until the extremity of his playing vocation successful 2014.

After his status arsenic a nonrecreational goalkeeper, helium rejoined Chelsea successful 2016 arsenic an adjunct goalkeeping manager nether Antonio Conte.

Promoted to goalkeeping manager by Maurizio Sarri successful 2018, Hilario is present expected to instrumentality up the aforesaid relation with the England nationalist team.

England are acceptable for a caller era, with Tuchel getting started astatine the country’s caller imperishable manager successful January arsenic helium replaces Gareth Southgate.

‘I americium precise arrogant to person been fixed the honour of starring the England team,’ the German said successful October.

‘I person agelong felt a idiosyncratic transportation to the crippled successful this country, and it has fixed maine immoderate unthinkable moments already.

‘To person the accidental to correspond England is simply a immense privilege, and the accidental to enactment with this peculiar and talented radical of players is precise exciting.

‘Working intimately with Anthony Barry arsenic my adjunct coach, we volition bash everything we tin to marque England palmy and the supporters proud.

‘I privation to convey the FA, successful peculiar Mark and John, for their spot and I americium looking guardant to starting our travel together.’

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