Former Manchester United and Real Madrid defender Gabriel Heinze is set to join Mikel Arteta’s coaching staff at Arsenal.
Heinze’s appointment comes after Carlos Cuesta departed the club to become Parma’s new head coach.
Arteta and Heinze were team-mates at Paris Saint-Germain during the 2001-02 campaign.
At the start of this season, Arteta spoke about his time at PSG, saying: “The other inspirations were (Mauricio) Pochettino and Heinze, those two were next to me all the time, behind me, and they were guiding me in everything I had to do in my professional life, how I had to understand the game and they were inspirational to me.”
Heinze, 47, has held managerial roles at Argentine top-flight side Godoy Cruz, Major League Soccer (MLS) club Atlanta United and Newell’s Old Boys, the club where he started his coaching career, since retiring from playing in 2014.
The former Argentina international’s last head coaching role was at Newell where he stayed for one year before departing in November 2023. During his playing career, Heinze won league titles at Manchester United, Real Madrid and Marseille as well as an Olympic gold medal with Argentina in Athens in 2004. He won 72 caps for his country and was a Copa America runner-up twice.
He will join a coaching staff team at Arsenal that includes assistant Albert Stuivenberg, set-piece coach Nico Jover, and goalkeeping coach Inaki Cana. The three have all been at the club since 2021.
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