Everything is ready for the start of the Tudor era at Lazio. After the victory on the Frosinone pitch, obtained with Martusciello on the bench, the Biancocelesti welcomed the new coach. There is already an agreement with Igor Tudor, a 45-year-old Croatian fresh from his last experience at Marseille and with a past on the bench in Serie A (Udinese and Verona in addition to the role of Pirlo’s assistant at Juventus). Tudor landed in Rome at 6pm, in the next few hours he will sign a contract until 2025 with option for another season.
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Lazio has chosen Tudor: he will be the new coach
Martusciello: “Sarri resigned to provoke a reaction”
The news on the bench takes you back to last March 13th when Maurizio Sarri, after almost three years as Juventus coach, he had resigned. And while the club identified Tudor as the designated profile, the away match won in Frosinone had seen Sarri’s deputy on the bench, Giovanni Martuscielloremained for one last match in the club: “A team absolutely cannot go so far as to betray a coach – Martusciello himself explained after the match -. I mean maybe yes, but that this group could do it is unthinkable. It doesn’t belong to these kids’ DNA. Sarri made the decision to resign to ensure that this match here came out: he realized that he was not having an impact and to make them react to extreme evils with extreme remedies. There were three options: resignation, dismissal or extension of the contract by 2-3 years. And we have arrived at this condition here. It’s not that he resigned because he is afraid of coaching Lazio, he resigned to attempt this last reaction. I gave my availability because I saw a group and a club that needed it because in this period of time there were no conditions to find a new coach“.