Incoming Chelsea boss Antonio Conte met the club’s players for the first time yesterday, according to The Sun.
The Italy coach visited the Blues’ Cobham training the day after it was confirmed he would become Jose Mourinho’s permanent successor this summer.
Chelsea’s squad got their first look at the man who is charged with getting their challenge for silverware back on track next season. The ex-Juventus coach watched the final few minutes of Tuesday’s training session before being introduced to the players.
The introduction was to the group as a whole and Conte is not expected to hold individual meetings with players before he
officially starts work in July. The 46-year-old also held a short meeting with the man he will be replace in the dugout, interim manager Guus Hiddink, during yesterday’s visit to Cobham.
Conte made the trip to Cobham rather than attend a match-fixing trial in which he is a defendant in Italy.
