Media reported on the talks “Zenith” with the Italian coach – RBC

media reported on the talks “Zenith” with the Italian coach

Former Italy coach Cesare Prandelli may be next summer to lead the St. Petersburg “Zenith”, according to “Izvestia».

In the middle of September, the current head coach of “Zenith” Andre Villas-Boas said he would leave the team in May 2016 after the end of the season for family reasons.

According to “Izvestia”, Prandelli himself expressed a desire to work with the St. Petersburg club, after which its agents contacted the leadership of “Zenith”. The details of the negotiations are not reported.

Earlier, among the candidates for the post of head coach of the “Zenith” called another Italian Carlo Ancelotti and Leonardo Jardim Portuguese. Ancelotti at the end of the current season will be headed by the Munich “Bavaria”, succeeding Josep Guardiola. Jardim still directs “Monaco».

Prandelli had previously worked with the “Atalanta”, “Lecce”, “Verona”, “Venice”, “Parma”, “Roma”, “Fiorentina” and the Italian national team that at the European Championships in 2012 led to a silver medal. The last club 58-year-old was in Istanbul “Galatasaray”, which he left in November 2014.

In the middle of September, Villas-Boas said he would leave the “Zenith” in May 2016 at the end of the season for family circumstances.

«The club made me an offer at the end of last season, I said no, and at the end of this season will leave the club,” – said the Portuguese expert.

Villas-Boas specialist complained that in the summer the club failed to strengthen the structure. This coach has promised that “Zenith” will do everything possible for the successful performance of the season.

«We continue to work, we need to score points, to catch up with those ahead of us, try to perform successfully in the Champions League. It is clear that we have not carried out the work in the transfer market, on which the calculated structure is quite limited, but nevertheless, we will try our best, though it is clear that there were no gains except for those players that have moved in the beginning of the transfer window, changed the rules “- said Villas-Boas.