Official: Maurizio Sarri left Chelsea to be Juventus's new manager

He has just finished an excellent season as Chelsea manager, crowned, after third place in the Premier League and the final of the EFL Cup, with the victory, a few days ago, of the Europa League.

Having lifted his first continental trophy, Maurizio Sarri is now back in Italy, where he trained throughout his career, except, of course, for the English experience he has just finished. And from today, and for the next three years (until June 30, 2022), he will lead Juventus.

Sixty years old, born in Naples and longtime in Tuscany in 2001, after years in the world of football, Sarri began his career as a full-time coach.

Thus began an adventure that, since 2005, has led him to the Serie B championship, riding Pescara, Arezzo and Avellino. The road to Serie A, however, is still  long: guide Sarri, Verona, Perugia, Grosseto, Alessandria and Sorrento, between B and Lega Pro.

So in 2012, the story begins with Empoli: Sarri is close to being promoted in the first division already in the first season (Livorno wins in the last playoff) and joins him a year later, finishing second in the championship.


Empoli is confirmed as a splendid football reality also the following season, in which he achieves mathematical salvation in advance. 2015, for the coach, is the year of landing in Napoli, and even here Sarri leaves his mark.

With him in fact the Neapolitan team reaches 82, 86 and 91 points, from 2015 to 2018: every time it is the Serie A record for the club, which wins for 3 years, two of which without going through the preliminaries, the qualification to the Champions League.

Finally, in 2018/19, as previously said, the excellent season with Chelsea in England, and the first continental trophy for Sarri.