Venice: Javorcic on the way, three-year agreement with the coach

Venice has chosen, without wasting time: Ivan Javorcic is ready to become the new orange-black coach. He is the architect of Sudtirol’s historic promotion to Serie B, the man to whom Duncan Niederauer wants to entrust himself to relaunch the Lagoon Lion, stunned by relegation to Serie B and the painful separation with the promoters (first Zanetti, then Collauto and Poggi). It will be the year of the restart in which Venice will lay the foundations of a new cycle that will go hand in hand with the development of infrastructures, especially the completion of the Taliercio sports center.

Marriage

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Venezia wants Javorcic, Javorcic wants Venice, the orange-black proposal is too tempting: the “marriage” will take place, economic agreement reached with the 43-year-old coach from Split, three-year contract with an offer more than double what he received in Bolzano and guarantees techniques of a team that will aim to fight to get back to Serie A. The last obstacle to overcome, but it will not be a problem, is the “penalty” that Venezia will have to pay to Sudtirol having Javorcic still one year of contract with the South Tyrolean club . A week ago, the president Duncan Niederauer (who returned to New York on Wednesday, but expected again in Venice in a few days) had misled a bit talking about an Italian technician, an expert in the category, now the spotlight has turned on Ivan Javorcic, who knows Serie B as a footballer, but which will be his debut as a coach, and has known Italian football since he arrived very young in Brescia. A coach in the spotlight after the results obtained with Sudtirol, on the launching pad, which continues the policy of Venice which in the last three years has focused first on Alessio Dionisi and then on Paolo Zanetti. If Javorcic is one step away from Venice as a coach, the role of sporting director could be held by Sean Sogliano who would land in the lagoon almost thirty years after his father Riccardo, who was Maurizio Zamparini’s right arm.

Game

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There is a hidden thread that links Venice to Bolzano, Ivan Javorcic had in fact at least a couple of predecessors who in recent times have traveled from the mountains to the sea, albeit not directly as Javorcic will do: first Stefano Vecchi in 2018, coming from Primavera of Inter and then returned to Sudtirol, then Paolo Zanetti in 2020 with the interlude of the experience at Ascoli. A man of the world, Javorcic will have no problems disengaging himself in the babel of nationality that he will find at Venice, a policy that the orange-green club will continue into next season, as confirmed by the arrivals of the Danish Andersen and the Polish Wisniewski. Zanetti had focused on 4-3-3 to bring Venezia to Serie A, a form that he had also confirmed upstairs. Javorcic should continue with the 4-3-2-1, but it will be necessary to see which players will remain in the lagoon, beyond the loans that will return to their original locations (Caldara, Ebuehi, Ampadu, Kiyine, Okereke, Sigurdsson, Nsame). The Croatian coach will be able to count on the hard core of the old guard, net of possible transfers (Lezzerini, Modolo, Ceccaroni, perhaps Molinaro if he does not enter the technical-managerial cadres of Venezia, Svoboda, Fiordilino, Crnigoj, Vacca, Aramu, Johnsen), but the Croatian coach’s game could especially enhance the characteristics of the French Cuisance.