Diego Martínez signed with Boca a few minutes before midnight: how long will his contract last?

Now it’s official: Diego Martínez is the new technical director of Boca Juniors. The 45-year-old coach, who terminated his contract with Huracán this afternoon, has signed his new contract minutes before midnight this Friday.

“Diego Martínez has accepted his link with Boca and is the new coach until December 2025. Welcome to the single largeDiego!”, the institution presented it on social networks, with chicane for River included.

The publication on X (formerly Twitter) was accompanied by the typical photo used to communicate these themes: Diego Martínez, sitting with pen in hand and in front of the contract. He appears next to her Marcelo Delgadoone of the members of Football Council that head Juan Roman Riquelmebrand new president of the La Ribera club.

His first day of work with the Boca professional team will be Tuesday 2 Januarywhen the players begin training for the 2024 season.

Martínez had a contract with Huracán valid until June 2024. However, Boca’s interest was enough for the coach to change his plans. This meant that the Parque Patricios team was left without a coach in the squad ahead of the preseason.

The novel was long: It all started in November with rumors of Boca’s interest in Gigoló and was delayed longer than necessary due to internal conflict in Xeneize over the elections. Riquelme could not announce the technical director without knowing whether he would actually be the president.

When Boca finally chose him at the polls, at the Parque de los Patricios they had confirmation of the rumor: even if not through the official channel, in a story managed as such, the technical director of Huracán was announced as the new coach of the Xeneize. And there the novel took a turning point.

The Huracán has been mentioned in the media since its president Davide Garzon In several interviews he explained that, for Boca’s announcement to be effective, The coach first had to resolve his situation with the clubunderlining the fact that they were waiting for him in the La Quemita property to carry out the preseason that Martínez himself had planned.

But the coach, on holiday, He didn’t show up for work or sign the dismissal. The conflict grew and the documentary letters arrived: Huracán asked for financial compensation for the remaining months of the contract together with the commission of his representative, paid in advance. The number? Some 175,000,000 pesos.

“Huracán demanded the corresponding compensation: the six months of contract that Martínez had ahead of him and which he decided not to respect, plus the month’s advance commission that his representative had received,” the club reported in its account X.

And he reports: “The former coach accepted the conditions of the Institution and signed the payment which will be effective in the first days of January 2024. In this way he has completely separated himself from the club”.

The information provided by Huracán is what Boca needed to be able to officially announce their new coach, given that without that agreement Martínez would not have been able to sign his contract.