Rome (AFP)
Italy's Stefano Pioli has been named AC Milan's new coach for two years, the Lombard Serie A club said on Wednesday.
AC Milan entrusts "the technical direction of his first team to Stefano Pioli" (53), former coach of Inter Milan and Fiorentina, indicates the Milan club on its website.
He succeeds Marco Giampaolo, who was dismissed after only four months on the Rossoneri bench and seven games on the clock, including four defeats.
Former professional player, Stefano Pioli, also coached by Bologna and Lazio Rome, will have the first mission to bring some calm to AC Milan, which is sorely lacking in results, and goes through a period of instability. .
Technician respected but not at the forefront, the choice of Pioli is already highly contested by tifosi on social networks.
Italian Champion in 2011 with Massimiliano Allegri on the bench (dismissed by the Rossonero club in January 2014), AC Milan did not win anything and exhausted seven coaches in a little over five years without even counting an interim from Mauro Tassotti.
While he currently points to a pitiful 13th place in Serie A (while his rival Inter is current dolphin leader Juventus), the big club struggles to overcome the storm.
He has however multiplied the profiles of his technicians to try to get out of the rut, successively aligning men leaders, as Sinisa Mihajlovic, the old glories of the team Clarence Seedorf way, Filippo Inzaghi and Gennaro Gattuso or the Italian coaches fashionable, such as Vincenzo Montella or, this season, Marco Giampaolo.
But nothing has worked, the Milan still lives on the memories of his glorious past without ever approaching the peaks and it is saying that this time, the transplant Giampaolo has absolutely not taken.
However, Stefano Pioli can not solve all the problems of a club that seems to have lost its compass and where the changes of coaches are hardly more frequent than those of owners (Berlusconi, Yonghong Li and the fund Elliott in two years ) or general and sport management (Galliani, Fassone, Mirabelli, Leonardo ...).
The financial situation of the seven-time winner of the Champions League also remains extremely alarming with nearly half a billion euros in losses over the last six seasons and an unavoidable exclusion this summer from the Europa League for violation of fair rules. -play financial.
Since Leonardo left for Paris SG, two former glories, Paolo Maldini and Zvonimir Boban, have been at the helm. Maldini chose Giampaolo, and Boban, according to the Italian sports press, is the one who pushed hardest for his departure.
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