Kevin Muscat calls time on Victory 任期
Melbourne Victory have never known life without Kevin Muscat but soon will after the four-time A-League 支持する／優勝者 agreed an 出口 from the club.
Muscat, the club's 創立／基礎 captain and longest serving coach, has decided the time is 権利 to leave the A-League powerhouse and will 出発／死 after Wednesday's Asian 支持する／優勝者s League (ACL) match with Sanfrecce Hiroshima.
That dead rubber is now transformed into an 時代-ending occasion, with Muscat, captain Carl Valeri and marquee Keisuke Honda to 調印する off.
Other players will also leave this off-season, but 非，不，無 with Muscat's gravitas.
Arriving at the club in 2005, the on-field bruiser 始める，決める the トン for Victory's 参加 - uncompromising, 残虐な, 熱烈な and above all successful.
No club has won more 肩書を与えるs than Victory; though arch 敵s Sydney FC matched their 運ぶ／漁獲高 of four 選手権s on Sunday night when they 敗北・負かすd Perth Glory on 刑罰，罰則s in the grand final.
Muscat led Victory on the field to the 2007 and 2009 肩書を与えるs as a player, and 操るd the 2015 and 2018 勝利s as coach.
"This is not a 決定／判定勝ち（する） made 夜通し or taken lightly," Muscat said.
"I believe the time is 権利 for me to refresh, and in time, 捜し出す a new 適切な時期 after giving everything I've got emotionally and 肉体的に to Melbourne Victory over the last 14 years.
"We have created and earned many 広大な／多数の／重要な memories along the way 含むing our eight トロフィーs.
"It goes without 説 that I will love and support this football club and wish it nothing but success."
Muscat leaves at his own time but not on his own 条件.
After winning his fourth 肩書を与える - and second as coach - last season, he 納得させるd the Victory board to support a major 攻撃する for the ACL this （選挙などの）運動をする.
Victory 調印するd Honda, the club's first Asian 星／主役にする, using a hefty chunk of FFA marquee 基金s, only for the club to 爆弾 in the 大陸の 競争.
Victory lost their openin g three games to （判決などを）下す the 残り／休憩（する） of their 参加 pointless, and those games 重さを計るd ひどく on their A-League defence.
The same week that Muscat led a threadbare squad to a dead rubber in South Korea, he returned home to Sydney to lose their 半分-final to Sydney FC 6-1 - the club's worst ever 敗北・負かす.
On the eve of his 200th game in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金, the 45-year old Muscat told AAP in February he would 査定する／（税金などを）課す his 未来 at season's end.
"There will be time to 反映する and sit 負かす／撃墜する with people that I look up to. It will be at the end of the season," he said.
That reflection has told him to go.
"Kevin has been incredibly successful as both a player and coach and will go 負かす／撃墜する as one of the most 影響力のある 人物／姿／数字s in Melbourne Victory's history," chairman Anthony Di Pietro said.
"The parting was an 現在進行中の 共同 and 統一するd 決定／判定勝ち（する）, and we wish Kevin nothing but the best for his 未来."
Muscat is the sixth A-League coach to have left his club this season.
His 出口 leaves two-season Newcastle Jets coach Ernie Merrick as the league's longest-serving boss.
