{"id":573863,"date":"2020-12-04T15:59:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T20:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=573863"},"modified":"2021-12-27T12:09:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:09:34","slug":"patrick-vieira-sacked-by-ogc-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/12\/04\/patrick-vieira-sacked-by-ogc-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Vieira Sacked by OGC Nice After Over Two Years in Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OGC Nice have parted company with former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/premier-league\/arsenal\/\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal<\/a> midfielder Patrick Vieira. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/ligue-1\/\" target=\"_self\">Ligue 1<\/a> side appointed Vieira as their manager in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2018\/09\/05\/ogc-nice-patrick-vieira-off-to-shaky-start-in-first-european-job\/\" target=\"_self\">summer of 2018<\/a>. However, a poor start to this season has seen the club act quickly and bring an end to Vieira\u2019s two-and-a-half years in charge.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time the club has changed manager since British billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/49426267\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Ratcliffe<\/a> bought the club last year. His first managerial appointment sees assistant manager Adrian Ursea become the head coach. Ursea will take charge of his first game on Sunday, December 6.<\/p>\n<p>Vieira leaves Nice 11<sup>th<\/sup> in the Ligue 1 table, eight points behind leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Paris+Saint-Germain\" target=\"_self\">Paris Saint Germain<\/a> and six points off the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/champions-league\/\" target=\"_self\">Champions League<\/a> places.<\/p>\n<h2>Patrick Vieira Sacked by OGC Nice After Two-and-a-Half Years in Charge<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OGCNice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#OGCNice<\/a> part ways with Patrick Vieira.<\/p>\n<p>\u27a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1AlfRkru7B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/1AlfRkru7B<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8OqvRSe5a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/8OqvRSe5a2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OGC Nice \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ogcnice_eng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ogcnice_eng\/status\/1334814055702392836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Assistant Manager Adrian Ursea Will Take Over as Manager<\/h3>\n<p>There had been murmurs of discontent for some time in the South of France with Nice\u2019s inconsistent performances. The club are currently on a run of five consecutive defeats in all competitions, four of which came at home, across both Ligue 1 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Europa+League\" target=\"_self\">Europa League<\/a>, proved to be the final nail in Vieira\u2019s coffin.<\/p>\n<p>The club were convincingly beaten by the French top flight&#8217;s basement side Dijon. That was followed by a defeat to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/bundesliga\/\" target=\"_self\">Bundesliga<\/a> side <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Bayer+Leverkusen\" target=\"_self\">Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> which ended their European adventures this season. While the results have been there at times this season, ultimately the inconsistent style of football Vieira was instructing has frustrated both the fans and the board.<\/p>\n<h3>All the Best<\/h3>\n<p>In a statement on the Nice website, the club said: \u201cPatrick Vieira put all his heart and professionalism into his service for OGC Nice over the last two and a half years of their collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nice board sincerely thanks the former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=France\" target=\"_self\">France<\/a> international for his commitment and dedication to the development of the club and wishes him every future success in his coaching career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The club also confirmed Vieira&#8217;s assistant Adrian Ursea will be promoted to head coach. Ursea has been with the club for several years having been also assisted Lucien Favre.<\/p>\n<p>Ursea\u2019s first game in charge will be a trip to Reims on Sunday. A great opportunity for the new manager to get a first win on the board. Their opponents are fourth from bottom in Ligue 1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"8oqOoKzrSO9xOj3MgVzaSQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1289399451\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'8oqOoKzrSO9xOj3MgVzaSQ',sig:'Y0JDQhAxCjtAt0X7bTdN_y51JxD75sY8vz4jmI2mkYo=',w:'594px',h:'400px',items:'1289399451',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OGC Nice have parted company with former Arsenal midfielder Patrick Vieira. The Ligue 1 side appointed Vieira as their manager in the summer of 2018. However, a poor start to this season has seen the club act quickly and bring an end to Vieira\u2019s two-and-a-half years in charge. This is the first time the club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3241,"featured_media":573893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,7],"tags":[7149,122,3983,1292,136],"class_list":["post-573863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ligue-1","tag-adrian-ursea","tag-ligue-1","tag-ogc-nice","tag-patrick-vieira","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}