{"id":3242,"date":"2026-01-03T20:23:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:23:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:23:03","slug":"officially-official-juventus-name-marco-ottolini-as-their-new-sporting-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/?p=3242","title":{"rendered":"OFFICIALLY OFFICIAL: Juventus name Marco Ottolini as their new sporting director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The long wait is officially over. After seven months of waiting, Juventus have filled their sporting director vacancy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s a familiar name to some at the club, with former Genoa director Marco Ottolini making his way back to Turin following three years at the Luigi Ferraris and becoming Juventus\u2019 new sporting director, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.juventus.com\/en\/news\/articles\/marco-ottolini-new-juventus-sporting-director\">the Bianconeri announced on Friday<\/a>. Ottolini previously worked at Juventus from 2018 to 2022 before heading to Genoa and becoming their new sporting director. But now he\u2019s back, and he\u2019s the No. 2 in charge of the sporting area behind general manager-turned-CEO Damien Comolli, who has now filled just about every vital vacancy in his new-look front office following the failed two-year tenure of Cristiano Giuntoli.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ottolini arrives just as the winter transfer window is getting underway, one where Juventus are expected to make some sort of moves despite Comolli previously saying the club will be limited with their business due to Financial Fair Play concerns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ottolini, 45, has risen up the ranks on the sporting side since beginning his post-playing career as a scout. At beginning of his first spell at Juventus, he was part of the Bianconeri\u2019s international scouting department. By the time he was set to head to Genoa, Ottolini had risen up the ladder to a position where he was monitoring players out on loan both in Serie A and abroad as well as having a role during the early stages of what we now know as the Next Gen squad in Serie C.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, after three years as Genoa\u2019s sporting director, Ottolini will be tasked with one of the most important jobs at Juventus as the club looks to build on Luciano Spalletti\u2019s early success at the club following his arrival in late October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Or, as Juventus put it in their announcement of hiring Ottolini, his return to Turin \u201crepresents a natural step forward in a career built on expertise, vision and in-depth knowledge of Italian and international football.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While we don\u2019t know what the future holds for Ottolini and how he will try and craft the roster, he is somebody who knows about a much more successful period at Juventus and what it took to make it happen. Now it\u2019s just about putting his own touch on this team over the next few months \u2014 and hopefully years \u2014 to help this club become a consistent title contender once again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackwhitereadallover.com\/team-management\/35175\/official-juventus-name-marco-ottolini-as-their-new-sporting-director-2026-team-news-team-management\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long wait is officially over. After seven months of waiting, Juventus have filled their sporting director vacancy. It\u2019s a familiar name to some at the club, with former Genoa director Marco Ottolini making his way back to Turin following three years at the Luigi Ferraris and becoming Juventus\u2019 new sporting director, the Bianconeri announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-aggiornamenti-serie-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}