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BARCELONA, Spain - Moments after completing his deal to coach Barcelona for the next two seasons on Friday, Gerardo Martino assured fans that he had come to maintain the winning style established by successors Tito Vilanova and Pep Guardiola. Barcelona announced Tuesday that the Argentine coach would take over for Vilanova, who stepped down last week to proceed with a cancer treatment that was "incompatible" with his coaching duties. The 50-year-old Martino has never coached in Europe before, and after five trophy-laden seasons with coaches who had come up through the clubs youth programs, his signing represents a break from the line of selecting in-house managers. Martino said that he would tweak the team he has inherited, looking to improve on something that was already working well. "I will try to combine both things, keeping with the style of the club and the style the players are comfortable playing in, but logically while trying to add my own part to make a more complete team," Martino said. "There are excellent players here and if we can go back to the ideas of the great moments of Barcelona we will do well." Martino will travel later Friday to Oslo, where Barcelona is getting ready to play a friendly against Valerenga on Saturday. The Spanish league is set to begin on Aug. 17-18. He will have a tough act to follow. Vilanova led Barcelona to the Spanish league title last season and helped Guardiola guide it to an unprecedented 14 of a possible 19 titles as his assistant from 2008-12. In his favour, Martino will receive a star-studded squad with Lionel Messi, several Spanish internationals such as Andres Iniesta, Xavi Hernandez and Cesc Fabregas, and the clubs latest major signing, Brazil striker Neymar. But his chances for success may largely depend on how well he can convince this diverse collection of players used to winning, and winning in the Barcelona way of attacking football, that he is the right man to carry the team through this unexpected transition. While Barcelona won its fourth Spanish league title in five years last season, it lost its place as Europes best team after Bayern Munich crushed it 7-0 over two legs of the Champions League semifinals. Martino thinks he can put Barcelona back on top. "Even for a club like Barcelona that has reached such a high level of excellence, it can also get better and needs to in order to sustain a high level of winning," Martino said. "Above all, we want to recover Barcelonas ability to pressure high up the pitch. We want a Barcelona comfortable in attack and defending far from its own area." While not going into many details about a group of players he has yet to meet, Martino said that he plans to keep using Messi as Barcelonas central forward, "where he has exploded in recent years." Martino considered it "normal" that he was relatively unknown in Europe. His greatest coaching achievements are leading Newells Old Boys to the Argentine league title last season and Paraguay to the quarterfinals of the World Cup in 2010. He has already received the backing of Messi. "He (is) a great coach and his record speaks for itself. He showed he could do things well both at Newells and with Paraguay," Messi said. "I am convinced he will do well at Barca." Messi played for Newells in his home town of Rosario as a young boy before his move to Spain to join Barcelonas "La Masia" training academy. The four-time world player of the year has been Martinos most vocal supporter so far, even though they dont know each other personally. Martino, who has the nickname "Tata," led Newells to its first league title in nine years last in June, achieving a remarkable turnaround for a side that had fought off relegation the season before. He coached Paraguay from 2007-11. As a player, Martino was a midfielder from 1980-1996, including a short spell in 1991 at Spanish club Tenerife in the Canary Islands.Nike Air Vapormax Billig . 1, meaning problems for the doping controls at both major international sports events next year. The World Anti-Doping Agency provisionally suspended the Moscow Antidoping Center on Sunday, saying its operations must improve or a six-month ban on the facilitys accreditation will be imposed. Nike Air Max 720 Damen Günstig . Tevez, who has had conflicts with coaches in the past, has not been called up since Sabella was named coach in 2011. Argentina boasts Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain, Sergio Aguero, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Angel Di Maria. http://www.shopairmaxschweiz.com/air-max-plus-fake-kaufen.html . Ronaldo produced a spectacular individual performance on Tuesday, scoring all three goals and guiding Portugal into the next years World Cup in Brazil with a 3-2 victory in Sweden. The Real Madrid forward has scored 66 goals in 2013, but the last three may be the boost he needs to upstage Messi after FIFA unexpectedly extended the voting period for the Ballon dOr to Nov. Vapormax Schweiz Kaufen . -- Playing time has been limited for Maxim Tissot this season, so the Montreal Impact defender made the most of his first scoring opportunity on Saturday. Nike Air Max Plus Günstig . Detroit and Boston are deadlocked, 1-1, and Tigers manager Jim Leyland could be forgiven if he was caught rationalizing instead of dissecting how his club could blow a 5-1 lead late in Game 2.ESPN college football analyst Rod Gilmore said in a statement on Monday that he has been diagnosed with a form of blood cancer known as multiple myeloma.First, I feel great and my prognosis is good, Gilmore said. I have great support with an amazing medical team, an incredible wife and family, and amazing friends and colleagues.Second, my condition was discovered during an annual physical, which Ive had done for more than 25 years. Early detection is critical, and I encourage all of you to get annual physicals -- cancer does not discriminate, and it will hide if you let it.Gilmore joined ESPN in 1996. He worrks on ESPN Saturday telecasts with Mark Jones and Quint Kessenich.ddddddddddddWe extend our thoughts and support to Rod and his loved ones, ESPN president John Skipper said in a statement. Rod is the consummate professional, and a valued and esteemed colleague who has the entire ESPN family behind him. I know he is approaching his battle with hope and optimism, and we wish him continued strength in that fight.Gilmore finished his statement by saying, See you Week 1 in Nashville. ' ' '