Enzo Maresca takes charge of Leicester, English Second Division club

Enzo Maresca was announced, last Friday (16), as the new coach of the English club Leicester. Maresca, 43 years old, is Italian and was a technical assistant at Pep Guardiola at the manchester city. The Leicester commander will have an arduous mission ahead of the English team, which was relegated to the second division of the national championship.

Leicester are in the process of rebuilding and are pinning all their hopes on Guardiola’s former assistant coach. Last season, the club ended its participation in 18^The position and ended up being relegated to Premier League. The experience gained alongside the victorious coach Guardiola motivated Leicester to hire the Italian.

On social media, Maresca said that the focus is on accumulating victories and advancing, little by little, in rebuilding the English team.”In the beginning, the goal is to play as well as possible. From there, we can build, day by day, our idea and our philosophy, and the most important thing is to try to win games,” Enzo said.

Maresca doesn’t have much experience as a coach. In a single opportunity he commanded the Italian team of Parma, in 2021, in 14 games and was fired, due to the negative results. Parma, with a bad campaign, was relegated. After leaving the Italian team, Pep Guardiola invited Maresca to help him at Manchester City. Maresca was extremely important in the conquest of Premier League 2 (sub-21 team) and was alongside Guardiola in great conquests, such as the Champions League.

Maresca has the characteristic of launching young players, which will be relevant for Leicester, due to the departure of important veteran athletes from the team. The Italian coach ended his career, as a professional player, in 2017, with titles won by juve it’s two uefa cupsas sevillebetween 2006 and 2007. The contract with Leicester will be for 3 seasons.

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