CLAUDIO RANIERI ON was sacked this morning as coach of Greece, the day after his side lost 1-0 at home to minnows the Faroes Islands in a Euro 2016 qualifier.
A statement from the Greek Football Federation said that the Italian would remain at the helm for the friendly match against Serbia on Tuesday and would then leave for home.
The humiliating loss to the Faroes left former European champions Greece bottom of group F and facing an uphill struggle to qualify for the Euro 2016 finals in France.
The statement said that Ranieri’s departure as coach had been decided at a meeting with federation president Giorgos Sarris which had taken place “in a good climate.”
“There was no other option than to terminate the contract,” it added referring to the loss to the Faroes.
Regarding Ranieri’s compensation, although his contract called for the full amount (1.6 million euros for two years) to be paid in case of removal from his post, the two sides agreed “on a much lesser total,” the announcement said.
The federation denied that a successor to Ranieri had already been found, saying that there was “plenty of time” to look for a new coach as the next Euro 2016 qualification match against Hungary was not until March.
Ranieri only took over as Greece head coach in July, taking over from Portugal’s Fernando Santos who had just taken the team for the first time in their history to the last 16 of the World Cup finals in Brazil.
2-0 at home to northern ireland and 1-0 away to possibly the weakest team in the world. Says it all really.
they played both of them at home!
Correct brian. Even worse again!
Ah, they’re definitely not the worst team in the world. Great result for them though.
Faroes have actually improved a lot in recent years. They generally pick up a few points every campaign so to call them the weakest team in the world is very harsh IMO.
Claudio Ranieri just walks into job after job even though he’s a poor manager.
How does this guy keep getting a job. Absolutely hopeless
In all honesty I feel bad for ranieri because he did a decent job at Chelsea and people shouldn’t forget that
Slippy situation
Poor tinker man