Arsenal assistant coach Cuesta, 29, named Parma boss

Parma person named erstwhile Arsenal adjunct manager Carlos Cuesta arsenic manager, the Italian Serie A nine said connected Thursday, with the 29-year-old taking up his archetypal elder managerial role.

Cuesta, who signed a two-year contract, replaces Cristian Chivu who near this period to articulation Inter Milan.

The 29-year-old, present the youngest manager successful Europe's apical 5 leagues, has been Mikel Arteta's right-hand antheral astatine Arsenal for the past 5 years.

Having decided astatine a young property that his aboriginal laic successful coaching alternatively than playing, Cuesta was fixed his archetypal accidental astatine Atlético Madrid with their underage teams and aft 4 years there, went travelling Europe to survey coaching methods.

It was during this play that Cuesta met Arteta, past portion of Pep Guardiola's coaching unit astatine Manchester City, and aft a two-year spell with Juventus' younker academy, Cuesta joined Arsenal successful 2020.

Cuesta has played a cardinal relation successful Arsenal's emergence to rubric challengers, known for his one-on-one talks with players arsenic helium specialised successful idiosyncratic subordinate development, focusing connected method skills and tactical principles.

While Cuesta, fluent successful six languages including Italian, intelligibly made an content connected Arteta erstwhile they archetypal met, the aforesaid tin beryllium said astir his clip astatine Juventus erstwhile Federico Cherubini, present Parma CEO, was progressive astatine the club.

Cuesta becomes the youngest Serie A manager successful astir a century. In 1939, Elio Loschi was 29 years, 9 months, 20 days aged erstwhile helium took complaint of his archetypal lucifer arsenic player-coach astatine Triestina.

The Spaniard volition beryllium 30 years, 26 days aged erstwhile helium takes to the dugout for Parma's archetypal match, coincidentally besides against Juventus.