Watford FC is acting in the sporting crisis: A former champion coach has to go to the relegation candidate – his tenure was short.
After just 14 games in just over three months, former champions coach Claudio Ranieri has been fired as team manager at English first division football club Watford. The relegation candidate announced the separation from the 70-year-old Italian after just 112 days at the beginning of the week, three days after the 0-3 home defeat against Norwich City. A successor to Ranieri, who won the title with Watford’s league rivals Leicester City in 2016, has not yet been determined.
The star coach was hired at the beginning of October as the successor to the dismissed Xisco Munoz. However, under the direction of the star coach, the “Hornets” only scored seven points. Watford’s last of just two wins with Ranieri on the bench was more than two months ago (a 4-1 win over Manchester United on 20 November). In the nine subsequent league games, Watford only gained one point and thus lamented their longest dry spell without a sense of achievement since 2013 in the penultimate place in the table.
Before his comeback in England, Ranieri had been without a club for almost a year and a half. At his last station, he was responsible for the Italian first division club Sampdoria Genoa in his home country.
