Aquilani’s first Serie A coaching job ends after 11 matches at Sassuolo

Sassuolo have dismissed Alberto Aquilani after 11 Serie A matches, according to Soccer News.

It is a brief first stay in top-flight management for the former Liverpool midfielder. Soccer News reported that Aquilani’s first step into coaching in Italy’s top division “did not last long,” and the number attached to it is stark enough on its own: 11 league games.

With the available sourcing this is a narrow story, and it should stay that way. There is no confirmed detail here about Sassuolo’s reasoning, no named successor and no official explanation in the material provided. What can be said, and what matters, is that Aquilani’s first Serie A head-coaching role is already over.

That leaves the dismissal as the whole event: quick, consequential and, from the evidence at hand, bluntly stated.

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