(CNN) -- Vincenzo Montella has been appointed as the new coach of Italian club AS Roma after Claudio Ranieri handed in his resignation. Roma acted quickly after the departure of Ranieri, who quit after his side were beaten 4-3 by Genoa on Sunday, having led 3-0 six minutes into the second half. Montella, 36, scored 118 goals in 267 Serie A matches and netted 84 for Roma during a ten-year stint with the club. He joined Ranieri's coaching staff in 2009. "AS Roma have, today, given first team duties to Mr Vincenzo Montella until the end of the current season,'' the club said in a statement.
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Roma appoint Vincenzo Montella as their new coach to replace Claudio Ranieri
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Montella played for Roma for 10 years and joined the coaching staff in 2009
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Ranieri offered his resignation shortly after Roma's defeat at @placeholder -- their fourth in a row.
The club confirmed his departure in a statement on Monday: ''AS Roma announces it received yesterday evening the resignation of Mr @placeholder as coach of the first team.
"Following this move, the financial contract with @placeholder, whose deal was coming to an end on June 30, 2011, has ended by mutual consent.