Parma coach Cuper fired as club faces relegation threat
13/5/2008 17:25
Parma coach Hector Cuper has been sacked yesterday ahead of the
relegation-threatened team hosting Inter Milan next weekend in the final Serie A
game of the season.
The Serie A side released a statement on their website
that youth team coach Andrea Manzo was to take charge of Sunday's big match,
where Inter can retain the title with a win and send third-from-bottom Parma
down.
Cuper, who was Inter boss six years ago and led Spain's Valencia to two
Champions League finals in 2000 and 2001, only took over in March but Sunday's
3-1 defeat at Fiorentina was the latest in a string of poor displays.
Parma,
the 1995 and 1999 UEFA Cup winners, will be relegated on Sunday after 18 years
in the top flight, unless they can beat a stuttering Inter and Roma, fighting
Roberto Mancini's men for the title, win at Catania.
The club were hit by
financial problems a few years ago and narrowly escaped relegation last season
under Claudio Ranieri, now at Juventus.
Xinhua
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