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Here's why Italian clubs are bringing back previously fired coaches...
2025-02-11 17:05:04 / SPORT
At Monza, Alessandro Nesta is the latest in a very long list of coaches sacked by a Serie A club and then returned a few weeks or months later. It is above all a contractual obligation, as a coach sacked by a club continues to be paid and cannot refuse to return to his post.
But it is also the least costly solution for the finances of the club in question. Those of Monza, for example, have weakened after the illusions of grandeur of the Silvio Berlusconi era. Therefore, this avoids hiring a third coach during the same season. It has even happened that some coaches retire the following season.
The rule was relaxed in Series B and C…
This very Italian modus operandi is linked to a rule in force, which prevents a coach from working at two clubs during the same season, thus encouraging turnover among the many graduates of the Coverciano center.
This rule has recently been changed in Serie B and Serie C, however, where a manager can now take over another club in any division (including Serie A), provided he is dismissed before December 20.
But this relaxation of the rule, which some would like to extend to the elite, is not definitive in the eyes of Renzo Ulivieri, president of AIAC (Italian Coaches Association): "The Serie A league will certainly ask us for this during the upcoming collective bargaining negotiations.
"But we have analysed seven cases in the lower categories and all of them are negative, because a sacked coach is already in a situation of personal crisis when he returns to work at a club that is also in inevitable difficulties."
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