“Genoa CFC announces that it has entrusted the technical management of the first team to Patrick Vieira. The new coach will direct the first training session in the afternoon after the formalization of the contract at the Villa Rostan headquarters. After a professional career, between 2011 and 2015, from Executive Development Football in the Manchester City Academy, Vieira has coached the teams of New York City, Nice, Crystal Palace and Strasbourg in his career! With this press release, Genoa welcomed Patrick Vieira, who will replace Alberto Gilardino on the Grifone bench.
Genoa CFC announces that it has entrusted the technical management of the first team to Patrick Vieira.
The new coach will lead the first training session in the afternoon after formalizing the contract at the Villa Rostan headquarters.
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— Genoa CFC (@GenoaCFC) November 20, 2024
The first training session and the meeting with Balotelli.
First official report on the work of Patrick Vieiraon his debut in Pegli as Genoa coach, published by the rossoblù official website: “The whole adventure of the coach, Patrick Vieira, in the new work environment began. A hectic day that took off from landing in Colombo with a private flight, the transfer to the headquarters in a van, the meeting with the top management, the presentations in the offices, with the collaborators and the team. Between the signing of the contract and lunch in the club house, a day of meetings that ended in the dark and field exercises.
Goals first small then large, fields marked out with different dimensions, Vieira, a multilingual technician, began to transfer notions to the group, which is increasingly larger thanks to the recovery and the return of the national team players which will be completed by Ekhator from the next session. At the end of training, other meetings to update the situation and prepare the next developments on the agenda.”
The former Inter and Juventus player has a few days available to prepare for the home match against Cagliari and will also have to try to mend his relationship with Mario Balotelli, which was not exactly idyllic in his time at Nice. And as evidenced by the photos published by the club, the two began their common adventure in rossoblù with a chat.
Zangrillo’s words on Vieira-Balotelli.
“Mario is an intelligent person and I’m sure the new coach (Vieira, ed.) is also intelligent. They’ll hug in front of me, I’m sure they’ll get along very well.”