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ROME: Serie A club Juventus fired champion coach Maurizio Sarri after just one season at the helm after the Champions League team was ousted in the eighth round on Friday, The Turin club said in a statement.
The 61-year-old was fired after taking Juventus to Serie A titles two weeks ago, his ninth in a row.
On Friday night, Juventus were eliminated from the Champions League, the festival they need to win for the first time since 1996, in Olympique Lyonnais’ outdoor goals despite their 2–1 victory on the lap.
“Juventus Football Club announces that Maurizio Sarri has been no longer no longer coach,” the club said on its website.
“The club would like to thank the coach for writing a new page in the history of Juventus with the victory of the ninth consecutive league, the culmination of an adventure that led him to climb all the divisions of Italian football,” he added.
His dismissal highlights the enormous and unbearable expectations of Europe’s largest clubs, and the Italian media, adding to the Gazzetta dello Sport, began to speculate temporarily on their possible replacements.
Former Tottenham Hotspur coach Mauricio Pochettino, Lazio coach Simone Inzaghi and Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane, former Juve players, were some of those mentioned, as was Massimiliano Allegri, who gave way to Sarri a year ago.
Pochettino and Allegri are clubs right now.
Sarri was hired to give Juventus a more extravagant advantage, but fought to impose his high-speed pass game called “Sarri-ball” on the Turin side.
He has been tense since wasting the consequences on Napoli in the Coppa Italia final in June.
Juventus have dominated Serie A so much over the past decade that winning the national league is considered almost an obligation, while the Champions League, which the club has not won since 1996, is considered its main goal.
Sarri, who has never played football professionally, began coaching amateur groups in the 1990s, effectively combining his fans with a banking career that took him to the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg.
He trained 16 others in the relegation department of the Italian league before achieving Serie A with Empoli in 2014.
Known as ‘Mr 33’ because he allegedly came here with another 33 shots to the ball stopped, Sarri joined Napoli in 2016 and made them the top of the squad probably to threaten Juve’s dominance.
He then spent a season at Chelsea, the Europa League with the London team, before joining Juventus.