Napoli sack Rudi Garcia and bring in Walter Mazzarri

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  • November 14, 2023

Naples (Italy) (AFP) – Italian Football League champions Napoli sacked their French coach Rudi Garcia on Tuesday due to poor results and replaced him with veteran Walter Mazzarri, who oversaw him between 2009 and 2013.

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Club owner Aurelio De Laurentiis wrote

Napoli’s results have slumped this season since Garcia succeeded Luciano Spalletti, who resigned after winning the league title, and are currently fourth, ten points behind leaders Inter after Sunday’s embarrassing home defeat to Empoli. Threatened with dismissal.

It was Napoli’s fourth home defeat in as many matches this season.

Mazzarri contributed to the promotion to the Elite League in his first season with the Southern club before continuing with them for three additional seasons.

He then led Napoli to win the Coppa Italia in 2012, after defeating then-league champions Juventus who were then unbeaten in the final, giving the team their first title in almost two decades.

In May 2013, after finishing second in the Italian league, Mazzarri left the club in a squad that included Argentine Ezequiel Lavezzi, Slovakian Marek Hamsik and Uruguayan Edinson Cavani.

He then briefly coached Inter but was sacked in November that year and his career has since seen a sharp decline as he has had varied experiences with English clubs, Watford, Torino and Cagliari.

With speculation favoring Croatia’s Igor Todor as Garcia’s successor to lead Napoli, Mazzarri’s appointment came as a bit of a surprise.

Toder, a former Croatian national team defender who won two Italian league titles with Juventus, led Marseille to third place in the French league last season, but left the club after long suffering “professionalism”. and personal reasons.”

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Tudor has had a promising spell with Verona and finished ninth last season behind Eusebio Di Francesco.

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