Juventus coach Italian football team, Maurizio Sarri, is looking for his first title with the "old lady" when he meets his former team Napoli tomorrow in the Italian Football Cup final at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, days before the resumption of the domestic league suspended three months ago due to the new Corona virus .
Juventus will be a strong candidate to boost his record in the competition and win his 14th and first title in "Corona's time", after last season he conceded a series of four consecutive titles for falling in the quarter-final against Atalanta zero-3. On the other hand, Napoli was crowned five times, the last of which was in 2014.
Sarri assumed his duties at the head of the technical department at the "Old Lady", at the beginning of this season, after an orphan controversy year he spent with Chelsea, during which he won the European League title "Europa League".
But before that, the sixty-first son spent three seasons with Napoli, where he struggled severely with the domestic league title with Juventus, who was crowned in the last eight seasons, before leaving the southern club for his disagreement with the owner of the controversial club also Aurelio de Lorentes. The coach claimed that he knew of the decision to dismiss him from Naples and to appoint Carlo Ancelotti as his replacement, by watching television.
But de Laurentiis responded harshly to him yesterday, telling the Corriere della Sera newspaper: "He betrayed me (Sarri), left on the pretext of money wasted, forced me to change and still had a two-year contract."
Sarri's first return to the "San Paolo" stadium ended with a 1-2 loss in January, but his team leads the league now, 24 points behind Napoli VI, and will open the end of the league battle early next week with Lazio and his runners by a point.
Sarri is looking for only his second title in a training career over thirty years, when he is running against Napoli in Rome, after moving with several modest clubs in Italy since 1990.
Juventus striker Gonzalo Higuain is suffering doubts about his suffering from a muscle injury to his thigh, knowing that he contributed greatly to the victory of Napoli in his last cup title in 2014, and he was the top scorer of the Serie A league in the 2015-2016 season with 36 goals.
The focus is focused on the other Juventus striker, his Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, after he missed a penalty against Milan in the second leg semi-final last Friday, which ended in a goalless tie, to qualify "Bianconeri" thanks to the goal of going in the San Siro stadium (1-1).
On the other hand, Naples is counting on its captain Lorenzo Insini and his Belgian winger, Driss Mertens, who qualified for Saturday's qualification against Inter (1-1 to 1-0), which made him the best in the history of the club that carried its colors in the eighties, the Argentine legend Diego Maradona.
The Belgian international raised his score to 122 goals, surpassing the number of former Slovak leader Marek Marjacik, while Maradona has a balance of 115 goals.