Di Matteo joins Chelsea backroom

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Roberto Di Matteo Di Matteo spent six years at Chelsea

Former Chelsea player Roberto Di Matteo has been named as manager Andre Villas-Boas’s first-team assistant coach.

The Italian has been out of work since leaving West Brom in February.

Di Matteo, 41, spent six years at Stamford Bridge where he won two FA Cup titles, the League Cup and the Uefa Cup Winners’ Cup.

“If you see the technical staff in front of me, and my appointment of Roberto, these are people who like the quality of the game,” said Villas-Boas.

Steve Holland, who led last season’s reserve side to the title, also becomes a first-team assistant coach with Christophe Lollichon continuing as goalkeeping coach.

Villas-Boas has also added Jose Mario Rocha, a 48-year-old fitness expert, to his backroom staff, having worked alongside him at previous clubs Porto and Academica.

Daniel Sousa has also been brought over from Portugal to take the up the role of head opposition scout, the role previously occupied by Villas-Boas in his first spell at Stamford Bridge between 2004 and 2007.

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