Football: Heat turning up on Inter coach

MILAN: Two Serie A coaches have been fired in the last week and Andrea Stramaccioni could be next in the firing line if his Inter Milan do not stop their recent rot.

Inter are on a run of one win in seven league games and have dropped from second place, one point behind leaders Juventus, in November to fifth now, 12 points adrift of the champions.

Although Inter president Massimo Moratti has had reassuring words for his coach, that could change if the team fail to beat Chievo at the San Siro on Sunday evening.

“I think Stramaccioni is a bright coach,” said Moratti, who has fired four coaches in the last two and a half seasons. “He works to make things run smoothly and he suffers when things don’t go well, in favour of the team. Things aren’t going terribly but nor are they going well. The players need to know the fans believe in them.”

Published in The Express Tribune, February 8^th, 2013.