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Lazio coach Sarri admits regret leaving Chelsea

Lazio coach Maurizio Sarri regrets leaving Chelsea for Juventus.

Sarri won the Europa League with Chelsea in his one season in charge.

He recalled to La Repubblica: “Everything was owed to Juve and we just had to win the Champions League, but it was a contaminated message.

"I won the championship with a group at the end of the cycle and a club that took me on because they had the desire but not the conviction to change their style.

"At Chelsea I found it difficult to immerse myself in an atypical club, without a sporting director, where no coach could last two years.

"But then in the last few months I've had fun and I was wrong in wanting to leave, not so much from Chelsea, which would have also kept me, but from the Premier League, a context of unique beauty.

"Returning to Italy was a mistake."

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