{"id":15314,"date":"2025-06-03T06:45:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/maurizio-sarri-lazio-appoint-former-boss-for-second-spell-in-charge\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T06:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:46:00","slug":"maurizio-sarri-lazio-appoint-former-boss-for-second-spell-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/maurizio-sarri-lazio-appoint-former-boss-for-second-spell-in-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurizio Sarri: Lazio appoint former boss for second spell in charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Maurizio Sarri has rejoined Lazio as head coach &#8211; 15 months after leaving the role. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 66-year-old replaces Marco Baroni, who led the Serie A side to a seventh-placed finish last season to miss out on European qualification. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarri resigned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/68552510\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">in March 2024<\/a> following a fifth defeat in six games and was also heavily critical of the club&#8217;s transfer policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Chelsea boss spent three years previously in charge of Lazio and president Claudio Lotito said in a statement: &#8220;Maurizio Sarri has returned home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His return is a choice of heart, conviction and vision. With him we want to resume a path that was interrupted too soon, aware that together, we can bring back enthusiasm, identity and ambition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Welcome back to your home, commander.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c39xwnrvw88o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maurizio Sarri has rejoined Lazio as head coach &#8211; 15 months after leaving the role. The 66-year-old replaces Marco Baroni, who led the Serie A side to a seventh-placed finish last season to miss out on European qualification. Sarri resigned in March 2024 following a fifth defeat in six games and was also heavily critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15316,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15314\/revisions\/15316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}