Italian side Catania have sacked coach Rolando Maran - for the second
time this season.
Serie A’s bottom side are seven points adrift of safety with six games
left.
Maran, 50, led Catania to eighth place last season as the Sicilians
narrowly missed out on European qualification for the first time.
So Catania sacked this guy in October and in
January, just three months later, went back to him and said we’ve made a
mistake we shouldn’t have sacked you the guy who replaced you is no good please
come back, he does and then he’s back less than three months and he’s been
sacked again, you couldn’t make it up.
What makes this even better is that there is another
team in Serie A who’ve done something similar, at the end of January Sassuolo sacked
their manager Eusebio Di Francesco and replaced him with Alberto Malesani, then
at the beginning of March, less than five weeks later, Sassuolo sacked Malesani
and re-hired Di Francesco.
I think the Italians are taking the phrase
managerial merry-go-round a bit too literally, and unsurprisingly both teams
are propping up Serie A and favourites for the drop.
But aside from making me laugh these two incidents
provide a rather apt metaphor for domestic Italian football at the moment; the
whole thing is one big joke.
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