Recent from serving to Manchester Metropolis win a treble of trophies, Enzo Maresca was employed as supervisor of relegated Leicester on Friday.
The Italian coach was a part of Pep Guardiola’s backroom workforce at Metropolis, the place he received the English Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup this season.
Maresca was signed to 2026.
“Enzo brings a mix of character, technique and ambition that meets extraordinarily nicely with the footballing path we wish to take,” Leicester chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha mentioned.
“His philosophy has been constructed over a wealthy and diverse profession, together with an impressive training as a coach, and matches with the imaginative and prescient we now have for this subsequent chapter in Leicester Metropolis’s historical past.” Maresca was beforehand an assistant to Manuel Pellegrini at West Ham and was additionally coach of Man Metropolis’s elite improvement squad and Italian workforce Parma.
He turned a part of Guardiola’s workers in 2022, serving to Metropolis to the best season in its historical past, together with profitable the Champions League title final weekend.
He faces a substantial problem at Leicester, the 2016 champion which is aiming to bounce straight again as much as the Premier League after the heartache of relegation.
“In the beginning, the goal is to play in the easiest way we are able to,” Maresca mentioned. “From there, we are able to construct, daily, our thought and our philosophy, and an important factor is to attempt to win video games.”
Leicester has seen out-of-contract Youri Tielemans go away. The futures of different star gamers equivalent to James Maddison and Harvey Barnes are unsure.
Maresca took over from Dean Smith, who was employed for the ultimate eight video games after Brendan Rogers was fired. Smith left alongside along with his coaches Craig Shakespeare and John Terry.