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Not Toronto FC related but i'm posting it here anyways....
Gennaro Gattuso has been hired as coach of Palermo.
Similiar to Ryan Nelsen he's a player at the end of his career turned coach. Only difference is he's already failed once. Thought it was comparable!
http://www.lastampa.it/2013/06/03/sport/calcio/zamparini-gattuso-sar-lallenatore-del-palermo-ww76N5ZJWXN9IirpMaQ4lI/pagina.html
Well, I would have personallly preferred Gattuso to Frings. Both would have played infront of the centreback pairing, both at the end of there careers, both would have contributed for about a year and a half. Except Frings is strong, quiet, knows what he's doing and does his job, and Gattuso is a tough old bastard and would have been laying into our entire squad.
I prefer passion you can see on the pitch, see dunfield.
I think it's a stupid move on Palermo's part but the ONLY similarity between this and the Nelsen situation is that they're both former players. And even that isn't quite a good comparison because Nelsen wasn't a former player when we hired him. He was a current player. LOL We actually had to wait for him to stop playing.
As for Gattuso and Palermo...meh...a relegated Italian team from Sicily went out and hired a "coach" from southern Italy. I'm not even sure if this move has anything to do with improving the product on the pitch.
Stupid move by Palermo imo
Tim Leiweke interview excerpt about TFC:
http://www.torontofc.ca/video/2013/0...ke-june-4-2013