Official: Mauro Tassotti returns to Milan as part of Daniele Bonera’s staff | OneFootball

AC Milan have announced that Mauro Tassotti has returned to the club, joining Daniele Bonera as a coach with Milan Futuro.

It has been a rather hectic last few days for the Futuro, starting with the defeat to Lucchese over the weekend in a relegation battle six-pointer, which at one point seemed to be the final straw for Bonera.

Matteo Moretto of Relevo reported that he was ‘heading towards dismissal’ after the loss to Lucchese and would then go on to add that Italy U19 boss Alberto Bollini is the favourite to replace him.

However, as we reported in our update yesterday, the hierarchy seem intent on giving Bonera one more chance in the next match against Pianese and thus he has not been sacked yet.

Now, the official website have confirmed that Tassotti has joined the coaching staff working with Bonera, certainly suggesting that his position is not immediately under threat.

Following his retirement in 1997, Tassotti took up a coaching position in Milan’s youth academy and even served as a caretaker manager for the senior side in 2000-01.

He was assistant to Carlo Ancelotti from then on, working under Leonardo, Massimiliano Allegri, Clarence Seedorf and Filippo Inzaghi too. He left in 2016, concluding a 36-year career with the club.

In 2017 he took up an assistant coaching position with the Ukraine national team under Andriy Shevchenko, and was his deputy at Genoa in 2021-22 too.