France soccer nice Patrick Vieira was out as coach of U.S.-owned top-tier membership Strasbourg on Thursday, only one month earlier than the Ligue 1 season begins.
The membership, which is in shared possession with Chelsea, stated in an announcement Vieira left by mutual settlement. He was one yr right into a three-year contract.
Vieira guided Strasbourg to a Thirteenth-place end within the 18-team league throughout a season wherein followers protested in opposition to being a part of a multi-club possession venture with Chelsea.
Strasbourg stated Vieira would all the time be welcome on the membership, and it’ll quickly identify a brand new coach.
Vieira has coached Strasbourg, Good, Crystal Palace and New York Metropolis FC. He beforehand coached youth groups at Manchester Metropolis, which is in the identical Abu Dhabi-backed possession venture as New York.
Vieira has additionally been rumored to be a candidate to switch Gregg Berhalter because the United States males’s nationwide group coach. He was reportedly within the gig and was contacted by the US Soccer Federation (USSF) when the job was vacant in 2023. Berhalter in the end acquired the job again, however he was let go earlier in July after the group did not get out of group play at Copa América.
As a participant, Vieira received World Cup and European Championship titles with France, and three English Premier League titles with Arsenal, the place he was within the midfield coronary heart of the unbeaten “Invincibles” group of 2003-04.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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