Serie A strugglers Crotone have sacked coach Giovanni Stroppa on Monday, with the club bottom of the standings and eight points from safety.
The 53-year-old Stroppa had been in charge since 2018 and led Crotone to promotion from Serie B last season.
But Sunday’s 2-0 defeat at home to Cagliari was Crotone’s sixth straight loss and its 18th in 24 matches this campaign.
“So ends a beautiful and intense journey that lasted almost three years, and that wasn’t without difficult moments but that culminated in the extraordinary survival in Serie B and furthermore in the second, historic promotion to Serie A,” Crotone said in a statement.
Stroppa took charge of Crotone in June 2018, with the team in the second division, but was fired in October of that year after collecting just 11 points from nine matches.
He was rehired two months later and steered the team to safety before guiding it to a second-place finish in Serie B the following season and promotion to the top flight.
It is the sixth coaching change in Serie A this season.
