Chelsea: Welcome Home Super Lampard!

Frank Lampard has been confirmed as coach of Chealsea football club.

The news was unveiled on Thursday morning on the club’s website and the new coach who won different silverware with the club said he was returning to work hard to further the successes of the club.

Lampard won three Premier League titles, four FA Cups, two League Cups, the Europa League and, the Champions League.

‘I am immensely proud to be returning to Chelsea as head coach. Everyone knows my love for this club and the history we have shared, however, my sole focus is on the job in hand and preparing for the season ahead. I am here to work hard, bring further success to the club and I cannot wait to get started.’

Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia was quoted as saying ‘It gives us great pleasure to welcome Frank back to Chelsea as head coach. Frank possesses fantastic knowledge and understanding of the club and last season, he demonstrated he is one of the most talented young coaches in the game.

‘After 13 years with us as a player, where he became a club legend and our record goalscorer, we believe this is the perfect time for him to return and are delighted he has done so. We will do everything we can to ensure he has all the support required to be a huge success.’

See what Chelsea said of the new coach:

“As a player he was the man for the biggest occasions – not least when his goals fired the team to the league title at Bolton in 2005, when he provided the vital pass for Didier Drogba’s winner in the first FA Cup final at the new Wembley, or when he led the team in John Terry’s absence in the Champions League final in Munich.

“Lampard’s brilliance was not just limited to the deluge of goals he netted over the years, nor was it confined to the significance of so many of those strikes. What really stands him out as one of the all-time greats was his extraordinary consistency.

“He netted 20 or more goals for five consecutive seasons and according to Premier League statistics, he supplied the fourth-highest assists figure in the competition’s history. He also made a record-breaking 164 consecutive league appearances between 2001 and 2005, still the highest for an outfield player.

“Through this unflinching commitment, he blossomed from the solid Premier League midfielder he was when he joined Chelsea in 2001 to become the runner-up in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards four years later. No such global recognition has been bestowed on any other Chelsea player, before or since.”

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