Allegri is back as Juventus coach

Rome: Massimiliano Allegri has returned to Juventus after the

Turin giants sacked coach Andrea Pirlo following a single season in charge, the deposed Italian champions announced

on Friday. “Welcome back home, Max!” Juventus said in a

tweet to announce the reappointment of the coach who won five straight Italian league titles with the club between

2014 and 2019. “Now we are ready to begin again with Allegri, to build our future together; with his enormous professionalism, his moral strength, with the brilliant ideas of a coach capable of shuffling the cards, both on and off the pitch,” Juventus said in a statement. The 53-year-old led Juve to four consecutive league and cup doubles with Italian Cup triumphs in 2015, 2016, 2017

and 2018. —