Before the fourth round of Serie A this weekend, two clubs of the 20 Serie A teams have announced the news of a coaching change. The speed of the coaching change surprised everyone.
A club is Cagliari on Sardinia. They just signed with the 54-year-old Semperici this summer, but after 1 draw and 2 losses in the opening, Cagliari quickly chose Mazzari to serve. The team coach.
Another club is Verona, they also announced this week that Juventus assistant Tudor took office, and the coach who was replaced was 52-year-old . Di Francisco .
In the past two seasons, Verona has been ranked in the middle of Serie A under the leadership of Julic. Croatia head coach went to Turin this summer to coach, Verona soon announced the signing of Di Francisco. After the start of the new season, Verona suffered a three-game losing streak, so the management fired Di Francisco without hesitation.
This is the cruel reality of coaching. No matter what results you have achieved before, your current record is the key to your destiny.
Di Francisco's road to success began in Sassuolo. Before that, although he coached Serie B Pescara and Serie A's Lecce , neither succeeded. In 2012, he signed a contract with Sassuolo of Serie B . In the following 5 years, he led the team to write the story of promotion to Serie A, success in relegation, and access to the Europa League qualification. He briefly dismissed get out of class in 2014, but Sassuolo quickly realized his mistake and allowed him to regain his command in just one month.
The subsequent story is familiar to the whole world. In 2017, Di Francisco was poached by Rome. He led the team in the Champions League in the first season.
2017-18 UEFA Champions League group stage,Roma was in the same group as Chelsea, Atletico Madrid and Karabakh, and Roma finally broke through with the group first. They eliminated Shakhtar Donetsk in the 1/8 finals, and then faced Barcelona in the quarter finals. In the first leg clash with Barcelona, Roma lost 1-4 at Camp Nou , and their Champions League journey seemed to end here.
Di Francis did not give up. From the first minute of the second round, Roma seized every opportunity to storm the Barcelona goal. In the 6th minute, Dzeko received a long pass from De Rossi and then shot the goal. In the 58th minute, Dzeko won a penalty for Roma, and De Rossi made a penalty. In the 82nd minute, Manolas scored with a header, rewriting the score to 3-0.
In this way, Roma completed a shocking reversal at home. The fans of the home team shed tears. Because of the story of a reversal after 3 goals in the first leg, it only happened 3 times in the Champions League. Francisco did it.
Roma, who entered the semi-finals, lost to Liverpool again 2-5 in the first leg, but defeated their opponent 4-2 in the second leg. This was the last time a Serie A team appeared in the Champions League semi-finals.
But the sweet time between Di Francisco and Roma only lasted for one season. Roma sold Alisson in the summer of 2018, and then got into trouble in the Serie A arena, winning only 1 game in the first 5 rounds Lost 9 goals. Roma struggled to equalize the score against Atlanta . Di Francisco furiously hammered the bench baffle to vent. As a result, his finger was broken. has to admit that this coach always likes to step into the court with a suit and tie, but he will immediately forget his gentle appearance when he enters the game state.
such a state naturally cannot last too long,After losing to Porto in the 1/8 final of the Champions League, Roma announced that Di Francisco was dismissed from get out of class. Many people are unfair about this. Regardless of whether Roma still maintains the competition for the Champions League seat, in those years, Roma sold their stars every season, but they always saw no high-quality signings. The management still thinks about being in this state. Remain competitive.
After leaving Rome, Di Francisco started his career in Waterloo. In the 2019-20 season he coached Sampdoria dismissed in less than half the season, and will be in Calia for the 2020-21 season Li was also dismissed in the middle of the season, and was fired this season even when the league just started.
In how to plan their own careers, coaches and players are actually facing the risk of one step and one wrong step, but who in the world can guarantee that they can choose the right option every time?
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