Raffaele Palladino decides to leave Fiorentina
Raffaele Palladino is no longer Fiorentina's head coach.
The Italian technician reportedly resigned earlier today in a shocking turn of events.
According to Gianluca Di Marzio of Sky Sport, Palladino, disgruntled by the way the Tuscan club had treated him toward the final stretch of the season, handed his resignation today.
Fiorentina are still trying to convince him to change his mind.
Otherwise, a new scenario would open up for the club in the Serie A coaching market.
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The videos show dozens of residents demanding federal agents to leave the neighborhood while cursing at them and calling them 'Nazis' and 'fascists.' They also show residents standing in front of a silver Chevy SUV, prompting a federal agent to use a flash-bang grenade to disperse the crowd but with no effect. At some point, five federal agents, most of them armed with assault rifles, approached the crowd as the government vehicles reversed and exited through another street. San Diego city officials denounced the operation and questioned the use of rifles and stun grenades for a work-site enforcement raid, which ultimately led to the public's response. 'Federal actions like these are billed as a public safety measure, but it had the complete opposite effect, ' San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria said in a written statement. 'What we saw undermines trust and creates fear in our community.' 'This was an unnecessary and alarming show of force deployed by those federal agents at a restaurant in a residential neighborhood,' San Diego Councilmember Stephen Whitburn, whose district includes South Park, told the Times. 'Setting aside the debate over immigration policy, I would like to know the justification for sending dozens of agents, wearing masks, carrying machine guns and handcuffing all the workers to execute a warrant for somebody who might be undocumented. Are you serious?' 'Last Friday was completely unnecessary,' he added, 'and residents had every right to be furious about what they were witnessing and to make their anger known, and they did that, and I'm proud of it.' San Diego Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera echoed that statement and called on a collective response against what he said was 'state-sponsored terrorism.' 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- Yahoo
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- Axios
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