Former MSV coach Gino Lettieri moved to Thailand in the summer of 2024. A few months ago, he changed clubs within Thailand. Things are not going well at his new club.

Gino Lettieri has been coaching in Thailand since July 2024. With Muanghtong United, the former MSV Duisburg coach finished sixth in Thailand’s top division last season, and his team even reached the cup final against champions Buriram United.

Lettieri’s club lost the final narrowly 2-3, and the 58-year-old’s contract was not renewed. He joined league rivals Uthai Thani at the end of May 2025. However, the start of the season with his new employer did not go according to plan at all.

Uthai Thani, which finished ninth last season, is still waiting for its first win after seven games. Founded in 2010, the club has only three points to its name and is currently bottom of the Thai League. This means that Lettieri’s only goal this season will be to somehow keep his team in the division.

In Germany, Lettieri is best known for his work with MSV Duisburg. His greatest successes include two promotions to the then third-tier Regionalliga with FC Augsburg and SpVgg Bayreuth.

In early summer 2010, he led Wehen Wiesbaden to third-division survival as a “firefighter.” The following year, he narrowly missed promotion. Things should go better in the Ruhr region.

Lettieri is a promotion coach for MSV Duisburg

With Lettieri, MSV Duisburg was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2014/2015. However, after a total of 59 competitive games—and only one win since promotion—it was all over in November 2015. His second spell was a much less successful and shorter interlude: Lettieri was brought in in November 2020 to prevent the club from being relegated to the regional league. After only two wins in twelve games, the Zebras called off the mission.

The Italian then signed on as assistant coach at AEK Athens before joining Panevezys in September 2022. Lettieri led the club to third place and thus into the UEFA Conference League. A year later, they won the championship.

Over the entire season, Panevezys suffered only one defeat and conceded just 14 goals in 36 games. “The selection of players was of course extremely important, as I couldn’t afford to make any big mistakes with our small budget of two million euros. Otherwise, the championship would have gone to Zalgiris Vilnius once again. The serial champions and FC Bayern of Lithuania,” Lettieri said at the time. In May 2024, it was all over and Lettieri moved on to Thailand, where, after his spell at Muangthong United, he is now under contract with Uthai Thani.