Who to succeed Maurizio Sarri on the bench of Juventus? Vacant the day after the elimination against Lyon, in the round of 16 of the Champions League, the Turin bench could return to a former home. In fact, Andrea Pirlo, since it is about him, is even already in Turin. The former Italian international was indeed appointed head of the U23 Juventus a few days ago. But according to Gianluca Di Marzio and various other Italian sources, it is he who will succeed Sarri and take the helm of the first team. If so, it would be his first experience as a head coach! He would aim to revive a sovereign Juventus on the national scene (nine titles in a row in Serie A) but which remains on two cruel eliminations in C1, against Ajax last year, and therefore Lyon on Friday night. All with a hardly attractive game. It was already one of the criticisms leveled at Juve during the time of Max Allegri ...
In recent hours, the name of Mauricio Pochettino has been mentioned to take over from Maurizio Sarri, who only stayed on the bench for Juventus for one year. The former PSG defender has been free since the end of his mission at Tottenham. We also talked about Simone Inzahgi, under contract until 2021 at Lazio, soon extended until 2023 and from whom President Lotito has no desire to separate. Aged 41, Andrea Pirlo has the advantage of knowing the inner workings of the Piedmont club inside out. Trained in Brescia and passed by Inter, Reggina and AC Milan (where he won the C1 twice), before finishing at New York City FC in MLS, he played for Juventus in 2011 in 2015, winning in passing four Italian championship titles, with two Italian Cups as a bonus. Italian international 116 times (13 goals), the native of Flero has played 164 matches with Juve (19 goals, 38 assists).
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