It was reported that Martino has sign a two-year contract with Barcelona. The 50-year-old Martino, a Rosario native like Barca's World Player of the Year Lionel Messi, has been confirmed Barcelona new manager on their website..
"The agreement is pending the drafting and signing of the contract," they said.
"In the next few hours, the timetable of his arrival in Barcelona, the signing of the contract and his presentation to the media will be firmed up."
This come up due to their former coach Vilanova's stepping down in order to continue treatment for throat
cancer after leading Barca to the La Liga title in his first season
since taking over from Pep Guardiola.
The new manager Known as "Tata" (grandad), the silver-haired Martino burnished his
reputation after steering Messi's old club Newell's Old Boys to
Argentina's "Final" championship last month and to the semi-finals of
this season's Libertadores Cup.
He made his name as a coach when he took Paraguay to the last eight
of the 2010 World Cup, where they lost 1-0 to eventual champions Spain,
and after quitting in 2011, turned down a lucrative offer from Colombia.
Martino elected instead to return to Newell's, the club where he played 509 matches as a midfielder under compatriot Marcelo Bielsa, from whom he is said to have inherited many of his coaching ideas.
He is also a self-confessed admirer of Guardiola, who took over at German and European champions Bayern Munich at the end of last season.
He was quoted saying "I feel identified with the kind of football Barcelona play," Martino told Spanish sports daily Marca in June.
"It's the style I like most," he added. “The respect for the ball,
playing out from the back, possession, interchange of passes. The pass
is the essence of football."
Martino becomes the fourth Argentine to coach at Barca after Roque Olsen, Helenio Herrera and Cesar Luis Menotti.
His main priorities next season will be to retain the La Liga title
while leading Barca to a third European crown in six seasons and their
fifth overall.
The Club is also said to be interested in Thiago Silva to bolster their team come next season.
Barca will start their campaign to retain their La Liga title in six years at home to Levante on the weekend of August 17-18.