Parma have named former Arsenal assistant coach Carlos Cuesta as supervisor, the Italian Serie A membership stated on Thursday, with the 29-year-old taking over his first senior managerial function.
Cuesta, who signed a two-year contract, replaces Cristian Chivu who left this month to join Inter Milan.
The 29-year-old, now the youngest supervisor in Europe’s prime 5 leagues, has been Mikel Arteta’s right-hand man at Arsenal for the previous 5 years.
Having determined at a younger age that his future lay in teaching relatively than taking part in, Cuesta was given his first likelihood at Atlético Madrid with their underage groups and after 4 years there, went travelling Europe to review teaching strategies.
It was throughout this era that Cuesta met Arteta, then a part of Pep Guardiola’s teaching employees at Manchester City, and after a two-year spell with Juventus‘ youth academy, Cuesta joined Arsenal in 2020.
Cuesta has performed a key function in Arsenal’s rise to title challengers, recognized for his one-on-one talks with gamers as he specialised in particular person participant growth, specializing in technical abilities and tactical rules.
Whereas Cuesta, fluent in six languages together with Italian, clearly made an impression on Arteta after they first met, the identical could be stated about his time at Juventus when Federico Cherubini, now Parma CEO, was concerned on the membership.
Cuesta turns into the youngest Serie A supervisor in almost a century. In 1939, Elio Loschi was 29 years, 9 months, 20 days previous when he took cost of his first match as player-coach at Triestina.
The Spaniard will probably be 30 years, 26 days previous when he takes to the dugout for Parma’s first match, coincidentally additionally in opposition to Juventus.
Info from Reuters and The Related Press was used on this report.
