German News agency and widespread
Spanish newspaper Marca said that Argentine Gerardo Martino became the coach of
Barcelona officially successor to Tito Vilanova.
Press reports indicated that Martino
signed a contract for a period of 3 years with Barca, and will lead the Catalan
giants replace Vilanova, who was discharged from his task as a result of
suffering from cancer.
Marca confirmed that the former
coach of Newell's Old Boys of Argentina will attend to the Catalan club soon
accompanied by a 3 of his aides "Alfio Balruso" and, "George
Butaso" and "Adrian Korea."
The newspaper pointed out that
the Spanish Guus Hiddink's resignation from the Russian training Angie today
raised speculation about the possibility of bringing in former coach of the
Russian national team and Chelsea for Barcelona training.
It is scheduled to arrive
Martino, also known as "Tata" to Barcelona on Tuesday to formally
start his mission with Barca, but it will not lead the team in a friendly match
against Bayern Munich on Wednesday.
Previously, Martino, 50 years,
trained many of the clubs in Paraguay and got with Bertad team and Siro
Boatenao the Paraguay League title 4 times, and succeeded in driving Newell's
Old Boys Argentine to win the league last season.
Martino had previously also train
Paraguay in the period from 2006 to 2011 and came with him to the quarterfinals
of the World Cup Soccer 2010 in South Africa, also won the award for best coach
in South America in 2007.
It is worth mentioning that
Lionel Messi expressed his admiration Pmartino, and he is a great coach, and
achieved good results and achieved good results with Newell's Old Boys in
Argentina, and gave him the team performances are very good, and stressed Messi
that Martino coach is respected by all.
