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9) Luigi Delneri
When and where: Porto FC in 2004
Duration for which he was manager: 15 days
What happened?
Following Jose Mourinho’s departure to Chelsea after leading the club to the most successful season in its history, Porto appointed Luigi Delneri as their new coach. Delneri was, at the time, regarded as one of the best young coaches around, and President Jorge Pinto da Costa had high hopes from Delneri.
Delneri joined in June 2004 and started taking charge of the training sessions. All was good until the day Delneri showed up late to training. Imagine, the manager coming in late for training!
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Delneri’s excuse was that he missed his hometown in Italy and had decided to go their for a few days, because of which he was late for a training session. Rumour has it that Delneri made multiple trips to Italy before the season had even started!
Suffice to say that his kind of behaviour did not go down too well with the President and Delneri was shown the door, a full 15 days after he was hired.
And thus, Porto, the then reigning Champions of Europe, started the 2004 season with no manager. Talk about a fall from glory!
