Southampton FC’s new supervisor says he desires the UK membership to play “demise steel soccer”.
Ivan Jurić was named because the membership’s new supervisor on Saturday (December 21), having signed an 18-month contract to exchange the outgoing Russell Martin.
A lifelong metalhead, he stated at a press convention yesterday (December 23) that he hopes to deliver an intense fashion of play in keeping with his favorite subgenre.
“Once I was younger I favored demise steel music quite a bit and it’s one thing my fashion of soccer is quite a bit like,” he stated in accordance with The Guardian.
“I’m not a golf man, it’s not the sport for me… I’m slightly extra aggressive,” he added. “Now it’s necessary to work arduous and perceive every part that has occurred.”
Jurić spoke in-depth about his love for steel in a 2010 interview with the Italian Rolling Stone. “I began at 14 years outdated with Metallica and Megadeth,” he stated, “then I moved on to extra aggressive issues. Dying steel is my ardour, bands like Napalm Dying, Obituary and Carcass.”
Jurić was born in Croatia and performed as a midfielder in his residence nation however has spent a lot of his administration profession in Italy. He was sacked by Roma final month after simply 12 matches, following the membership’s 3–2 loss to Bologna on residence turf.
Nevertheless, the supervisor’s approach has been praised. In 2022, The Guardian wrote that Jurić’s “demise steel method” made then-club Torino “a devilish crew to face”. The crew soared up the Serie A desk throughout his first yr as head coach, climbing from seventeenth place in 2021 to ninth in 2022.
Jurić will hope to tug off an analogous reversal of fortune with Southampton. “Saints FC” have gained simply certainly one of their 17 matches on this yr’s Premier League and are at excessive threat of relegation. They’ll play their first sport with their new supervisor at their residence stadium of St Mary’s in opposition to West Ham on Boxing Day.
