FC Barcelona has a new coach: Gerardo Martino will succeed the resigned for cancer Tito Vilanova. “Tata” as the Argentinian is called, has celebrated success with Paraguay and Newell’s Old Boys.
The Argentine Gerardo “Tata” Martino is the new coach of FC Barcelona. As the team announced after a board meeting in the morning, the 50-year-old receives the Spanish champions a three-year contract. He is the successor of Tito Vilanova, Pep Guardiola, who had replaced a year ago with the Catalans. The former assistant to the current Bayern Munich coach had to give in the previous week due to his cancer suffering on as coach at Barça.
Martinos obligation applies as a surprise, because the students of the Argentine star coach Marcelo Bielsa has no experience in European football, and was also in Spain still largely unknown.
Martino, who is often called “Tata”, like Lionel Messi comes from the city of Rosario in the north of Argentina. The world footballer called his fellow some time ago as a “super coach”. Martinos Coach Adrán Coria Messi is considered to be explorers.
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“Tata” was successful as coach of Paraguay and had recently brought in his home country with Newell’s Old Boys, the Youth Association of Messi, the national title. He drew with Paraguay at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa in the quarter-finals. In the Copa America with the national team he reached the quarter-finals in 2007 and 2011, the final, the 0:3 Paraguay vs Uruguay lost.
Martino of Argentina on Tuesday flew to Barcelona and there already signed his contract. In a friendly on Wednesday at Bayern Munich the new coach not yet sitting on the bench, he should conduct the training for the first time on Thursday. Currently, Jordi Roura in charge of the team, the 45-year-old had already trained the Catalans in the last season as interim. While Vilanovas cancer treatment contributed to the ex-pro who had already heard of Pep Guardiola for support staff, from mid-December to early April, the responsibility for the sporty star ensemble.
Recently the former Barça professional Luis Enrique had been regarded as the most promising candidate for the Coach. The former coach of AS Roma is but the Spanish side Celta de Vigo under contract. According to a survey Jupp Heynckes is the favorite of the Barça fans had been. The former Bayern Munich coach taught it to a survey by “Mundo Deportivo” on the most votes, the speculation ended, however: “I have hobbies, I do sports, I have my animals and I have a huge garden,” said Heynckes .
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