When Juventus provided Andrea Pirlo as the new coach of their under-23s recently you could quickly have actually been forgiven for thinking it was the unveiling of a first-team manager. Juventus president Andrea Agnelli presented the man who, as he stated, requires no introduction. Fabio Paratici, the chief football officer, and Federico Cherubini, the supervisor of the under-23s, sat either side, delighted to invite Pirlo back to the club five years after he left Berlin, the scene of the 2015 Champions League last, for a new obstacle in New York.
“The hope,” Agnelli suggested, “is that he can follow in the footsteps of other coaches. As Andrea stated, he requires to make it.” The other coaches he wants are Pep Guardiola and Zinedine Zidane, who progressed from Barcelona B and Castilla respectively to Champions League winners in the leading task. No one, at the time of Pirlos unveiling, anticipated he would get a promo this quickly. He has yet to coach a.