South Korean club hire Champions League winner Di Matteo
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Former Chelsea manager joins Jeonbuk Motors
Well-known Italian football player and coach Roberto Di Matteo on December 4 signed a contract with two-time Asian champion football club from South Korea Jeonbuk Motors. According to Reuters, Di Matteo received the position of technical adviser to the management of the team.
Coached by former South Korea defender Kim Sang-sik, Jeonbuk finished second behind Ulsan Hyundai in the K-League’s top division football in the 21/22 season with a five-game winning streak.
Roberto Di Mateo spent most of his football career at Lazio and Chelsea. With the English team, even before Abramovich joined it, he won the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, the UEFA Super Cup, and became a two-time winner of the FA Cup.
On June 29, 2011, Di Matteo became the assistant to the head coach of Chelsea, familiar to Russian fans from his work at Zenit, Andre Villas-Boas. On March 4, 2012, Di Matteo became Chelsea’s acting head coach until the end of the season, due to the dismissal of Villas-Boas.
On May 5, 2012, Chelsea, under the leadership of Di Matteo, won the FA Cup, beating Liverpool in the final with a score of 2: 1, and two weeks later, on May 19, Chelsea defeated Bayern Munich in the Champions League final (1: 1 in regulation time, 4-3 on penalties), winning the trophy for the first time.
On June 11, 2012, Roberto became the head coach of Chelsea, having lost the prefix and. about.
On 21 November 2012, after losing to Juventus in a UEFA Champions League match, Di Matteo was sacked as head coach of Chelsea due to unsatisfactory results.
Since then, he has briefly worked as head coach at Schalke 04 and Aston Villa. After being sacked by Aston Villa on 3 October 2016, Di Matteo no longer worked with football teams.
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