Gennaro Gattuso has been appointed as head coach of Valencia on a deal until June 2024.<\/p>\n
The AC Milan legend replaces Jose Bordalas, who was dismissed just one season into a two-year contract.<\/span><\/p>\n This was after a campaign in which Valencia finished ninth and lost the Copa del Rey final to Real Betis.<\/span><\/p>\n Valencia said Gattuso \u201cjoins the club following an extensive career both as a player and as a coach.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAfter hanging up the boots, he started his coaching career in 2012 with teams like AC Milan and SSC Napoli, with whom he won the Coppa Italia in 2020.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Gattuso spent 18 months in charge of the Rossoneri after being appointed in November 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n They narrowly missed out on UEFA Champions League qualification by a solitary point during his one full season in charge.<\/span><\/p>\n He later took over Napoli, who he led to Coppa Italia glory in the 2019\/2020 season.<\/span><\/p>\n But Gattuso departed a year later after again missing out on UEFA Champions League qualification.<\/span><\/p>\n The 44-year-old was appointed Fiorentina boss in May last year, only for the two parties to rescind that agreement a month later.<\/span><\/p>\n Gattuso has also had spells in charge of Sion, Palermo, OFI Crete and Pisa before re-joining AC Milan \u2014 initially with their Primavera side.<\/span><\/p>\n As a player, Gattuso won two Serie A titles and two UEFA Champions League medals during a glittering 13-year stay with AC Milan.<\/span><\/p>\n He was also a FIFA World Cup winner with Italy in 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gennaro Gattuso has been appointed as head coach of Valencia on a deal until June 2024. The AC Milan legend replaces Jose Bordalas, who was dismissed just one season into a two-year contract. This was after a campaign in which Valencia finished ninth and lost the Copa del Rey final to Real Betis. Valencia said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5120,586,5119],"class_list":["post-8813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-gennaro-gattuso","tag-la-liga","tag-valencia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8815,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions\/8815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}