|
Home
Transfer News
Rumours
Done Deals
Official Speculation
Fans Rumour Mill
Other News
EPL News
Serie A News
La Liga News
Other Euro News
Results/Fixtures
(Next Season)
Standings
Statistics
(Next Season)
Injury Reports
Columnists
Forum
What the Boss
thinks?
Want to become an affiliate?
Fantasy League |
|
Lippi
to quit with out CL success
Juventus coach Marcello Lippi
said Friday he would quit if he fails to guide the Italian club to Champions
League success next season.
Juventus lost to AC Milan on penalties in Wednesday´s all-Italian final in
Manchester, Lippi´s third failure in four European Cup finals as coach of
the Turin club.
"We will try again with all our energy to win the Champions League final
next year. If we do I will stay, otherwise I´ll leave to spend more time
with my grandson Lorenzo," said Lippi, whose contract ends in 2005 but has a
one-year extension clause.
"To have only won twice in seven finals (in the club´s history) is a poor
return for a team like Juventus that has won more league championships than
anyone (in Serie A). I´m determined to get us to a fifth final."
His only triumph was against Ajax in Rome in 1996, but Lippi is far from
dishearted by his record on Europe´s biggest stage.
"I don´t feel like a loser. I am a coach who always puts out a team prepared
to give 100 per cent.
"In six and a half years at Juventus I have always won something and in the
year I was sacked I took the team to the European Cup quarter-finals.
"If you win you´re a hero and if you lose you´re an idiot," added Lippi, in
his second spell with the Serie A champions." |
