FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Juventus Training - Juventus Training Center, Turin, Italy - August 24, 2020 New Juventus coach Andrea Pirlo arrives at the Juventus Training Center REUTERS/Massimo Pinca/File Photo
(Reuters) - Juventus's decision to hand the coaching reigns to untried Andrea Pirlo promises to make this season's Serie A title race one of the most open in years with a queue of clubs waiting to pounce should the champions' remarkable gamble backfire.
The Turin side will be bidding for a 10th successive Serie A title this season, which kicks off on Saturday, but will do so under the leadership of a man who, for all his undoubted ability as a player, has never coached at senior level before.
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