Frenchman Patrick Vieira has been sacked from his coaching position at Crystal Palace, the club, ranked 12th in the English league, announced on Friday March 17, just 3 points from the red zone.
"Results over the past few months have put us in a difficult situation in the league, and we felt a change was needed to give us the best chance of staying in the Premier League," the club chairman said in a statement. , Steve Parish.
"Patrick's impact [since his arrival] has been significant," said Steve Parish. He led the team to an FA Cup semi-final and a respectable 12th place finish last season with some inspiring football. “But the situation is more complicated this season. Crystal Palace has still not won in 2023 and its 46-year-old coach has been under increasing pressure in recent weeks, with only 3 points ahead of the first relegation player, Bournemouth (24 points).
The former midfielder, 1998 world and 2000 European champion with the Blues, arrived in July 2021 at the head of the Eagles with a three-year contract to relaunch his coaching career in a championship where he made a name and a track record as a player.
At Arsenal (1996-2005), he became one of the best defensive midfielders in the world and the idol of the London club, of which he was captain to three titles of champion of England (1998, 2002, 2004) and four FA Cup wins. It was also in England that he began his coaching career, as development manager for Manchester City and then in charge of the club's reserve team, where he played for the last season, in 2010-2011.
Patrick Vieira then made his debut as a head coach in 2016 at New York City FC, one of the satellite clubs of the City galaxy, in the North American Championship (MLS). He returned to France in 2018 to take over the management of OGC Nice, a thirty-month experience with mixed results despite good 7th (2018-2019) and 5th (2019-2020) places in Ligue 1.
