Valencia has appointed AC Milan great Gennaro Gattuso as its next manager despite heavy pushback from its fanbase.
Gattuso, 44, joins the Spanish side after recent managerial stints with AC Milan and Napoli. Last season after being linked with Tottenham, he signed on to become Fiorentina’s manager only to leave the club less than a month later.
But his history of controversial comments has stirred up a resistance among Valencia fans who started the #NoToGattuso movement. In 2008, he openly declared that “marriage is between a man and a woman” after saying that same-sex was “strange.” In 2013, Gattuso was heavily criticized for saying, “I can’t see women in soccer” after AC Milan named Barbara Berlusconi as one of its CEOs.