{"id":251939,"date":"2025-10-30T23:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/251939\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T23:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:26:10","slug":"juventus-have-golden-opportunity-to-appoint-ottolini-new-sporting-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/251939\/","title":{"rendered":"Juventus have golden opportunity to appoint Ottolini new Sporting Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus could receive a major boost in their attempts to bring Marco Ottolini on board as new Sporting Director.<\/p>\n<p>The Bianconeri have been a club in turmoil for months, so the managerial change that occurred this week won\u2019t signal the end of it.<\/p>\n<p>While sacking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juvefc.com\/breaking-juventus-set-to-sack-tudor-and-replace-him-with-brambilla\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Igor Tudor and replacing him with Luciano Spalletti<\/a> wasn\u2019t on the club\u2019s agenda, the appointment of a new Sporting Director has been a pending matter for months.<\/p>\n<p>Genoa Sporting Director Marco Ottolini could soon become available<\/p>\n<p>Juventus General Director Damien Comolli will soon be elevated to the role of CEO, so he\u2019ll have to entrust the sporting department to someone else.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juvefc.com\/why-juventus-chose-ottolini-for-sporting-director-role-and-when-will-he-arrive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ottolini has emerged as the club\u2019s preferred candidate<\/a> for the role, even though the links have cooled down recently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/genoa-cfc-v-lr-vicenza-coppa-italia-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/genoa-cfc-v-lr-vicenza-coppa-italia-1.jpg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-154574 has-webp size-large\" alt=\"Marco Ottolini looking on\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/><\/a>(Photo by Simone Arveda\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>But according to Sky Sport Italia via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilbianconero.com\/liste\/sky-genoa-non-si-esclude-l-addio-di-ottolini-segnale-per-la-juve\/blt7d61221fdd6bc0fe#cs937daca25842e4db\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IlBianconero<\/a>, the 45-year-old could receive his marching orders from Genoa, who are enduring a woeful start to the season, lying at the very bottom of the Serie A table.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian director has been serving at the Ligurian club since 2022, and even survived the change of ownership earlier this year, while several other top officials were made redundant.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ottolini and Patrick Vieira are both walking on this ice at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Ottolini\u2019s career path and previous spell at Juventus<\/p>\n<p>If Genoa decide to show Ottolini the door, this would be the perfect opportunity for Juventus to pounce on the opportunity to land their main target.<\/p>\n<p>The Gardone Val Trompia began his career as a scout working for Belgian giants, Anderlecht, in 2015, before joining Juventus in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>After serving for three years as a scout, Ottolini was appointed as Juve\u2019s Loan Player Director in 2021, before vacating his role in favour of a more prominent post at Genoa.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the Italian is considered an all-too-familiar face at Continassa.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761866770_448_8358eec36d8646ef64034d20714ad880\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Avatar\" class=\"lazyload avatar avatar-100 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-100 photo avatar-default\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juvefc.com\/author\/michel-sakr\/\" title=\"Posts by Michel Sakr\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michel Sakr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michel is a football journalist based in Beirut who has been a die-hard Juventus supporter since 1996. He is a Law graduate and a member of the Beirut Bar Association. In addition to writing for Juve FC, he is also the Head Writer for The Laziali and a Featured Writer on other websites including Stretty News, and The Cult of Calcio.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"author-social\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Michel.Calcio10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"author-social\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Michel_Calcio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juventus could receive a major boost in their attempts to bring Marco Ottolini on board as new Sporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-251939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}