{"id":449996,"date":"2011-06-29T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/29\/roberto-di-matteo-named-andre-villas-boas%e2%80%99-assistant-at-chelsea\/"},"modified":"2011-06-29T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T09:02:00","slug":"roberto-di-matteo-named-andre-villas-boas-assistant-at-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/29\/roberto-di-matteo-named-andre-villas-boas-assistant-at-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Di Matteo named Andre Villas-Boas\u2019 assistant at Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h4>29 Jun 2011 10:02:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"80.0527356625\">\n<div readability=\"14.780952381\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FA Cup 2000 : Roberto Di Matteo - Chelsea (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/97500\/97544_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>FA Cup 2000 : Roberto Di Matteo &#8211; Chelsea (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/italy\/40799\/roberto-di-matteo\">Roberto Di Matteo<\/a> has been named as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a>&#8216;s new assistant first team coach.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 41-year-old coach spent six years at Stamford Bridge, signing from Lazio in 1996 and staying until his forced retirement from injury as a player in 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As well as winning the FA Cup twice with the Blues, he tasted success with the club in both the League Cup and the Uefa Cup Winners&#8217; Cup.<\/p>\n<p><span>His first FA Cup victory came after scoring from 30 yards out only 42 seconds into the final against Middlesbrough in 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Di Matteo was sacked as manager of West Brom in February amid a run of poor results and form.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, his squad\u2019s early season form was praised and he earned plaudits for guiding the club back to the Premier League in his first season in charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He spent a year at MK Dons before his move to The Hawthorns, leading them to the League One play-offs, but he was unable to win promotion to the Championship after a third-placed finish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>New Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas has also brought in Jose Mario Rocha as a fitness expert and Daniel Sousa as head opposition scout, while Steve Holland, who won the reserve league with the club last season, will now work with the first team.<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><em>Our<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93900\/93900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"11\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0provides the best breaking news online and our\u00a0<\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93800\/93899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"10\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0football fan community is unmatched worldwide. Never miss a thing again!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/29\/2552635\/roberto-di-matteo-named-andre-villas-boas-assistant-at\" title=\"Roberto Di Matteo named Andre Villas-Boas\u2019 assistant at Chelsea\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roberto Di Matteo named Andre Villas-Boas\u2019 assistant at Chelsea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 29 Jun 2011 10:02:00 FA Cup 2000 : Roberto Di Matteo &#8211; Chelsea (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Roberto Di Matteo has been named as Chelsea &#8216;s new assistant first team coach. The 41-year-old coach spent six years at Stamford Bridge, signing from Lazio in 1996 and staying until his forced retirement from injury as a player in 2002. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":401389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-449996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Roberto Di Matteo named Andre Villas-Boas\u2019 assistant at Chelsea - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/29\/roberto-di-matteo-named-andre-villas-boas-assistant-at-chelsea\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Roberto Di Matteo named Andre Villas-Boas\u2019 assistant at Chelsea - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"29 Jun 2011 10:02:00 FA Cup 2000 : Roberto Di Matteo - Chelsea (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Roberto Di Matteo has been named as Chelsea &#039;s new assistant first team coach. 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