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The Juventus men’s football team has announced that it has sacked coach Massimiliano Allegri, who will therefore not be there for the last two matches remaining at the end of the championship. The club decided this two days after Juventus’s victory in the Italian Cup in the final against Atalanta, for reasons that have to do with Allegri’s behavior on Wednesday evening during and especially after the match, which «the club he deemed them not compatible with the values of Juventus and with the behavior that those who represent it must have.” It has not yet been officially announced who will replace him, but all the sports media say that Paolo Montero, Uruguayan coach of Juventus’ Under 19 team and former player of the club, will lead the team in the last two matchdays.
In the match against Atalanta Allegri had first been sent off for some very blatant and vehement protests, then after the end of the match he continued to be very nervous, in particular insulting and threatening the editor of the newspaper Tuttosport Guido Vaciago. «I’ll come and tear off both your ears. I’ll come and hit you in the face,” she allegedly told him, among other things.
Despite still having another year left on his contract, it now seemed very likely that Allegri would be sacked in the summer, because the Coppa Italia he had just won was the only trophy since his return to Juventus, three seasons ago, and above all in 2024 the team is it went very badly. After the episodes of Wednesday evening, however, the management decided to bring forward the dismissal. The coach considered the favorite to succeed him is Thiago Motta, who brought Bologna to the Champions League this year and will play against Juventus on Monday evening.
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Allegri was one of the most representative and successful coaches in the history of Juventus, with 420 appearances on the bench, behind only Giovanni Trapattoni. He coached the team at two different times, first between 2014 and 2019, then between 2021 and 2024, for a total of eight seasons. In the first five, between 2014 and 2019, Juventus always won the Serie A, the Italian Cup four times, and reached the Champions League final twice, in 2015 and 2017. Especially in the first three seasons it then expressed a dominant and extraordinarily effective football, which however progressively lost its brilliance after the Champions League final lost in Cardiff in 2017.
Allegri’s second period as Juventus coach was much more disappointing. Hired in 2021 with a long contract and broad powers to revive the team after a complicated year with Andrea Pirlo as coach, Allegri has never managed to give the team a convincing game and identity, and his notoriously conservative approach to football has showed very clear limitations.
In these three years Juventus have won only one Italian Cup, last week, obtaining a fourth and a seventh place (with a ten point penalty) in the first two seasons (they will finish this championship third or fourth and have already secured participation to the next Champions League). In Europe the results were equally disappointing, with eliminations in the round of 16 of the Champions League in the first season and in the semi-finals of the Europa League in the second (in the current season Juventus had been excluded from the European cups due to financial irregularities).
2024-05-17 15:38:30
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