Inzaghi survives Milan sack
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FILIPPO Inzaghi has clung on to his job as AC Milan coach following its 1-3 home defeat by Genoa and will stay unless there are any major changes, the club said yesterday.
Italian media reported yesterday that Inzaghi could be replaced by youth team coach Cristian Brocchi for the final five matches of the season in an attempt to save the club from further embarrassment.
But an announcement on Milan’s television channel said that Inzaghi will “remain at the helm at Milan unless there are any major changes.”
Inzaghi’s position had become increasingly precarious following a run of four matches without a win which left his side in 10th place and set to miss out on European football for a second season in a row.
Milan has 43 points from 33 matches — 33 fewer than leaders Juventus.
Wednesday’s defeat came as former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was meeting Thai businessman Bee Taechaubol to discuss the sale of the club, which he has owned for almost 30 years.
Milan’s website also said that the players had been released from a so-called “ritiro,” in which they are confined to the club’s training headquarters.
Inzaghi has been going through the same process as his predecessors Massimiliano Allegri, dismissed in January last year, and Clarence Seedorf, who followed him at the end of last season. Both fell victim to a combination of high expectations and a lackluster squad, and were eventually fired.
Meanwhile, Carpi, the club from Emilia-Romagna this week completed a fairytale-like first promotion to Italy’s Serie A, just five years after being in fifth division. When it goes to play at Milan’s San Siro stadium next season, all 70,000 of the town’s residents would fit inside.
“There are no adjectives that can describe this extraordinary achievement,” Fabrizio Castori, Carpi’s 60-year-old manager said. “There are just some great guys here that I’ve had the privilege to coach.”
Castori’s 35-year coaching career epitomizes Carpi’s story. This marks the manager’s ninth promotion at every conceivable level, but his first to Serie A. “I took the longest road possible to arrive in Serie A but I deserve it,” Castori said.
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