Fiorentina unveil Paolo Vanoli as new head coach | OneFootball

Fiorentina announced this Friday the signing of coach Paolo Vanoli, who has signed a contract with the team until the end of the current season, in June 2026. The 53-year-old coach arrives to replace Italian Stefano Pioli, who was dismissed after a poor start to the season, failing to win in the Italian Championship.

Present in Fiorentina’s last title, the 2001 Coppa Italia, Vanoli is considered an important player in the history of La Viola. This will be his first coaching job this season.

Coaching Career

Vanoli began his coaching career in 2010 as an assistant for Italy’s youth national teams. He worked with the U-17, U-18, and U-19 squads as an assistant and officially took charge of the U-18 in 2013 and the U-19 in 2015.

After Euro 2016, he became Antonio Conte’s assistant with the Italian national team and followed him for five years, working at Chelsea and Inter Milan.

In December 2021, he took over Spartak Moscow and began his career as a head coach. He spent six months in Russian football, winning the Russian Cup in 2022.

After being dismissed from Russian football, he spent a year and a half at Venezia and 11 months at Torino. Vanoli had been out of work since June of this year. In his overall professional coaching statistics, the Italian has managed a team 126 times, with 54 wins, 32 draws, and 40 losses.

When does he debut?

The former player will already be in charge of Fiorentina in the next match of the Italian Championship. This Sunday, at 11 a.m. (Brasília time), the team visits Genoa at the Luigi Ferraris Stadium for the 11th round of Serie A. The match marks the debut of Vanoli and the opposing coach, former midfielder Daniele De Rossi.

Currently, Fiorentina is in last place in the Italian Championship, with three points, three fewer than Pisa, the first team outside the relegation zone.

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