In sporting terms, you can call Maurizio Zamparini — Palermo’s volatile president — the Executioner. The man, renowned for firing coaches after ridiculously short stints, has stuck again as he got rid of coach Giuseppe Sannino, just 3 matches into the season.
Giussepe Sannino was only appointed by Palermo in June
If you were thinking why someone would do a thing like that, the 55-year-old businessman said that he was scared the club might end up relegated under Sannino. When asked if the coach was at risk he answered that he’d “prefer to get drunk than answer that.” He went on and said “I will watch the game again, but I am worried…I am worried we’re going to get relegated.” All these after only three matches in which Palermo snugged just one point.
Sure, it is not a great start, but can a coach prove himself in the Italian Seria A, after just 3 games? Apparently Sannino didn’t get along with the players. “I wanted Sannino as Palermo coach for many years, but saw that the players did not integrate with his ideas,” Zamparini told reporters.
The man in the new hot-seat will be Gian Piero Gasperini and he might not last till the end of the season either considering how Palermo went through 3 coaches last season alone and replaced 22 in less than a decade.
One thing a coaching stint at Palermo will show you is that football is a fickle game; very, very fickle…
