Celestini arrives to take charge of a Clarets side who have started life back in the Championship badly, having won just once in the league this season to leave them in 22nd position in the table.<\/p>\n
Their poor form stretches back to a torrid Premier League campaign last term, and the club are without a win at home in the league for over a year.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Diego Lopez was appointed as director of football and given the task of finding a new manager after Hayen left in the aftermath of Saturday’s 4-1 defeat by Lincoln City.<\/p>\n
“Fabio brings the passion, experience and knowledge we were looking for,” Lopez said.<\/p>\n
“He showed extraordinary determination and conviction to come to Burnley.<\/p>\n
“We want people who truly want to be here and help this club grow. Fabio is a clear example of that.”<\/p>\n
Details of Celestini’s contract have not been disclosed by the club.<\/p>\n
A former midfielder who won 35 caps for Switzerland, he began his managerial career with Italian club Terracina.<\/p>\n
As well as Basel and CSKA Moscow, he has also had spells at Lausanne – his principal club as a player, Lucerne, Lugano and Sion.<\/p>\n
He left CSKA by mutual agreement in May after 11 months with the Russian Premier League side. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celestini arrives to take charge of a Clarets side who have started life back in the Championship badly,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-644147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}