Davide Ballardini added only one victory at the helm of Genoa, his campaign in the Italian league is completed with six draws and five defeats.
Genoa made official this Saturday the dismissal of coach Davide Ballardini, after winning only one game in twelve rounds of the Italian league, and the favorite to replace him is, according to local media, the Ukrainian Andriy Shevchenko.
“Genoa CFC fired coach Davide Ballardini. The Club thanks the coach and his coaching staff for the work carried out, the commitment and passion that he always demonstrated ”, reads the official statement published by the Genoese club.
Ballardini only added a triumph to the command of Genoa, a 3-2 in the Cagliari field on 12 September, with six draws and five defeats.
The Italian coach paid the last draw 2-2 this Friday at the Empoli field and his team occupies the seventeenth league place.
In the absence of the official announcement, the Italian media agree that his replacement will be Shevchenko, who left the Ukrainian national team last October.
Shevchenko knows Italian football very well, having played eight seasons in Milan, winning a Champions League, in 2003. (D)
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