Mohun Bagan Rope In Jose Antonio "Kibu" Vicuna As Head Coach

Kolkata: City football giants Mohun Bagan on Friday announced the appointment of Spanish coach Jose Antonio "Kibu" Vicuna for the upcoming football season, the club said in a statement.

Vicuna joined Mohun Bagan from Wisla Plock, a first division Polish club, taking over from Khalid Jamil who was in charge of the green and maroon brigade until last season.

Mohun Bagan was looking for a foreign coach since some time after finishing fifth last season with 29 points from 20 games.

Shankarlal Chakraborty was at the helm from the start of Mohun Bagan but after a string of poor results, he was replaced by I-League winning coach Jamil.

However, things did not get better for the former champions as they failed to match their arch-rivals East Bengal's second-place finish by a distance.

There were many names that were doing the rounds including Moroccan Karim Bencherifa, who had coached them before, Portuguese Paulo Menezes, former Gokulam Kerala head coach Fernando Santiago Valera, Hercules head coach Lluis Planaguma and CD Castellon coach Oscar Cano.

Former Bengaluru FC boss Ashley Westwood was also in the fray, according to reports. IANS

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