Gennaro Gattuso has become the third player who started the 2007 Champions League final for Milan to become Coach of the Rossoneri.
The former midfielder replaced Vincenzo Montella yesterday, having previously been working with the Primavera team.
Just over 10 years after the Diavolo last won the Champions League, beating Liverpool 2-0 under Carlo Ancelotti, Ringhio has become the third member of that side to sit on the San Siro bench.
Clarence Seedorf was the first of that team to take the top job, replacing Massimiliano Allegri in January of 2014.
Gennaro Gattuso has become the third player who started the 2007 Champions League final for Milan to become Coach of the Rossoneri.
The former midfielder replaced Vincenzo Montella yesterday, having previously been working with the Primavera team.
Just over 10 years after the Diavolo last won the Champions League, beating Liverpool 2-0 under Carlo Ancelotti, Ringhio has become the third member of that side to sit on the San Siro bench.
Clarence Seedorf was the first of that team to take the top job, replacing Massimiliano Allegri in January of 2014.
The Dutch midfielder was given to the end of that season, taking charge of a total of 22 matches.
Seedorf managed to win 11 of 19 Serie A games, but his side lost both Champions League Last 16 games to Atletico Madrid, and were eliminated from the Coppa Italia by Udinese.
Milan eventually finished eighth, which wasn’t enough to earn Seedorf the job, and he was replaced by the man who scored both goals in that 2007 final.
Filippo Inzaghi, like Gattuso, had been Coach of the youth team and he was promoted to the top job in time for the 2014-15 campaign.
The Diavolo lost just once in their opening 10 games, a 1-0 loss to champions Juventus, but after a 2-0 home defeat to Palermo the wheels came off.
Milan won just four Serie A games between then and March, and Inzaghi was forced to endure the club’s public pursuit of Carlo Ancelotti during his final weeks in charge.
Super Pippo was duly sacked and replaced by Sinisa Mihajlovic, but the Rossoneri ultras blamed the club rather than their former hero, writing a touching letter to the former striker.
Gattuso has now become the third player from that team to take charge of the first team, and he may not be the last with Massimo Oddo currently Coach of Udinese and Alessandro Nesta having just left Miami FC.