Frenchman Patrick Vieira has been sacked from his coaching position at Crystal Palace, the club announced on Friday, ranked 12th in the English league, with only three points ahead of the red zone.
“Results over the past few months have put us in a difficult position in the league and we felt a change was needed to give us the best chance of staying in the Premier League,” London club chairman Steve Lee said in a statement. Parish.
“Patrick’s impact (since his arrival) has been significant,” assured 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 more and more pressure in recent weeks with only three lengths ahead of the first relegation player, Bournemouth (24 pts).
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 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 with three titles of champion of England (1998, 2002, 2004) and four victories in the FA Cup.
It was also in England that he began his coaching career, as development manager for Manchester City, then in charge of the club’s reserve team where he played for the last season, in 2010-2011.
Vieira then made his big debut in 2016 as a head coach at New York City FC, one of the City galaxy’s satellite clubs, in the North American Championship (MLS).
He returned to France in 2018 to take over the management of OGC Nice, a 30-month experience with mixed results despite good 7th and 5th places in Ligue 1.