Press reports indicated that Martino signed a contract for a period of 3 years with Barca, will lead the Catalan giants and replace Vilanova, who was discharged from his task as a result of suffering from cancer.
Marca confirmed that the former coach of Newell's Old Boys of Argentina will attend to the Catalan club soon accompanied by a 3 of his aides "Alfio Balruso" and, "George Butaso" and "Adrian Korea."
The newspaper pointed out that the Spanish Guus Hiddink's resignation from the Russian training Angie today raised speculation about the possibility of bringing in former coach of the Russian national team and Chelsea for Barcelona training.
It is scheduled to arrive Martino, also known as "Tata" to Barcelona on Tuesday to formally start his mission with Barca, but it will not lead the team in a friendly match against Bayern Munich on Wednesday.
Previously, Martino, 50 years, training many of the clubs in Paraguay and got with the teams of Bertad and Siro Boatenao the Paraguay League title 4 times, and succeeded in driving Newell's Old Boys Argentine to win the league last season.
Martino had previously also train Paraguay in the period from 2006 to 2011 and reach with him to the quarterfinals of the World Cup Soccer 2010 in South Africa,"Tata"also won the award for best coach in South America in 2007.
It is worth mentioning that Lionel Messi expressed his admiration to Pmartino, and said that he is a great coach, and achieved good results with Newell's Old Boys in Argentina, Messi said also that Martino is a coach respected by all.
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