London - Trainer-quake in England: The English football club Chelsea FC has fired seinenTrainer Luiz Felipe Scolari, with immediate effect.
Dasteilte the London Premier League club on Monday with seinerInternetseite.
"The results and the performance of the team tracks a key moment of the season always weiternachzulassen", explained the Chelsea board the drastic step undüberraschenden.
The Elf of the DFB-captain Michael Ballack waram last Saturday with a 0-0 draw against promoted Hull City nichthinausgekommen and slipped to fourth place.
"Felipe has brought many positive things in the club, undwir are sad that his relationship with the club was only kurzerDauer of so," it said in the statement.
Scolari's dismissal without Entlassungsei the "only option" was to ensure that the mitStars studded club in this season continue to mitspielenwerde trophies.
The search for a successor for the 60 years altenbrasilianischen champion trainer of 2002 had already begonnen.Der new coach would be "presented as soon as possible." AlsInterimscoach established assistant coach Ray Wilkins.
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