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    The heavyweights

    Oct 30, 2020 6 minutes

    JUVENTUS

    Pirlo set to cut his teeth at the top

    Following their shock defeat to Lyon in last season’s Champions League round of 16, it was inevitable that the Juventus board would respond by throwing coach Maurizio Sarri under the team bus. No matter that Sarri only had been in situ for one season and had just led the side to the 2019-20 Serie A title. Major European setbacks require a scapegoat and that was to be the coach. Much less predictable was the Turin club’s choice of replacement, opting to engage Andrea Pirlo, who just a week earlier had been appointed as Juve’s Under-23 boss.

    The Juventus powers-that-be undoubtedly are taking a massive risk with the 41-year-old Pirlo. He has zero experience as a coach and in all their time as a top-flight club, the have never given the first-team keys to an absolute beginner. Juve’s argument for choosing Pirlo for the top job is threefold. He once was a massively popular and

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