SOCCER: SIENA SACK COACH

SOCCER: SIENA SACK COACH

(ANSA) - Siena, October 29 - Siena on Thursday sacked coach Marco Giampaolo after a 2-1 defeat at fellow strugglers Bologna left the Tuscans bottom of Serie A with seven losses in ten games.

Youth team manager Marco Baroni, a former defender who won a scudetto with Diego Maradona's Napoli in 1990, was picked to replace Giampaolo.

Siena Chairman Giovanni Lombardi Stronati said Baroni, 46, ''had a great career on the field and will be able to handle this tense situation''.

Former Cagliari coach Giampaolo, 42, is the sixth Serie A manager to be sacked so far this season.

Before him, on October 20, Bologna replaced Giuseppe Papadopulo with former Napoli and Cagliari coach Franco Colomba.

A day before that, then bottom club Livorno brought in ex-Perugia coach Serse Cosmi in place of joint coaches Vittorio Russo and Gennaro Ruotolo.

AS Roma, Atalanta and Napoli are the other clubs to have seen heads roll.

Luciano Spalletti was sacked after Roma's two opening defeats and replaced by Claudio Ranieri; Angelo Gregucci got the push at Atalanta on Day Four and was replaced by Antonio Conte; and former Italy manager Roberto Donadoni fell in favour of Walter Mazzari after Napoli's seventh game. photo: Giampaolo (with Donadoni in background)