AC Milan sacked coach Sinisa Mihajlovic on Tuesday and replaced him
with youth team coach Cristian Brocchi, who will take charge until the
end of the season, the Serie A club said on its website
Milan have fallen from grace since they last won Serie A in 2011, going through a succession of managers.
AC Milan's coach Sinisa Mihajlovic reacts at the end of the first half
during their Italian Serie A soccer match against Napoli at the San Siro
stadium in Milan, Italy, October 4, 2015. REUTERS/Giorgio
Perottino/Files
REUTERS: Sinisa Mihajlovic was sacked by AC Milan after less
than a season in charge on Tuesday with youth team coach Cristian
Brocchi taking charge for the remainder of the campaign.
A club statement said the former Sampdoria, Lazio, Inter Milan and Yugoslavia player had been relieved of his duties.
"The club would like to thank Mihajlovic for the dedication
and hard work carried out this season," the statement said on Milan's
website.
The decision followed a meeting between club president
Silvio Berlusconi, chief executive Adriano Galliani and Brocchi on
Monday evening, according to media reports in Italy.
Mihajlovic's final game in charge proved to be Saturday's
2-1 defeat by Serie A leaders Juventus, Milan's fifth consecutive league
game without a win.
Seven-times European champions Milan are sixth in the table and are
almost certain to miss out on the Champions League for a third
successive season.Milan have fallen from grace since they last won Serie A in 2011, going through a succession of managers.
Former greats Clarence Seedorf and Filippo Inzaghi both
endured disappointingly short spells in the San Siro hot seat before
Mihajlovic was hired to try and revive their fortunes.
Mihajlovic, a European Cup winner with Red Star Belgrade in
1991, found himself under pressure immediately though after a dreadful
start to the season.
They lost four of their first seven games as players
struggled to adapt to his motivational methods and Mihajlovic was openly
critical of some of the performances.
Results did improve and Milan have reached the Coppa Italia
final but the recent slump in league form has proved the final straw and
the club find themselves in limbo yet again.
(Writing by Martyn Herman, additional reporting by Silvia
Recchimuzzi and Bartosz Dabrowski in Gdynia; Editing by Brian Homewood)
- Reuters
Football: AC Milan sack coach Sinisa Mihajlovic, Brocchi takes charge
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