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 position.
Cuesta, who signed a two-year contract, replaces Cristian Chivu who left this month to hitch Inter Milan.
The 29-year-old, now the youngest supervisor in Europe’s high 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 reasonably than enjoying, Cuesta was given his first probability 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 Metropolis, and after a two-year spell with Juventus’ youth academy, Cuesta joined Arsenal in 2020.
Cuesta has performed a key position in Arsenal’s rise to title challengers, recognized for his one-on-one talks with gamers as he specialised in particular person participant improvement, specializing in technical expertise and tactical rules.
Whereas Cuesta, fluent in six languages together with Italian, clearly made an impression on Arteta after they first met, the identical might 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 practically a century. In 1939, Elio Loschi was 29 years, 9 months, 20 days outdated when he took cost of his first match as player-coach at Triestina.
The Spaniard might be 30 years, 26 days outdated when he takes to the dugout for Parma’s first match, coincidentally additionally towards Juventus.
Info from Reuters and The Related Press was used on this report.