Nearly 10 years after his playing career ended (he played in India in 2014), Alessandro Nesta is yet to become a full-fledged Serie A manager. After Perugia, Frosinone and Reggiana in Serie C or Serie B, the 2006 world champion defender was chosen by Monza last summer. The Lombard club owned by the Berlusconi family had a great first year in the elite (12th place) under the leadership of Raffaele Palladino, now at the head of Fiorentina.
With Nesta, the Biancorossi have never had the same success. Worse. The Lombards are having a cataclysmic season. They have only won once in 17 Serie A matches and suffered a third loss in a row, Sunday when Juventus came (1-2). The northern club of Milan took the opportunity to dismiss Nesta this Monday.
Nesta without solution
It must be said that AC Monza lost some of its executives from last year, goalkeeper Michele Di Gregorio (bought by Juventus) and winger Andrea Colpani (also left for the Viola). Monza spent very little in the last transfer window, paying Georgios Kyriakopoulos three million euros and signing Daniel Maldini as a free agent. Defensive midfielder Warren Bondo, trained in Nancy, has been playing at Monza since 2022.
No miracle, therefore, for Alessandro Nesta. The Rome native was one of the best central defenders in the world for years, winning the Cup Winners’ Cup with Lazio in 1999 and two Champions Leagues with AC Milan in 2003 and 2007. He was named four times in the UEFA team of the year (2002, 2003, 2004, 2007) and was therefore crowned world champion in 2006 at the end of a final won on penalties against Raymond Domenech’s French team.
