TORINO – His football philosophy, the two years spent away from the ball, the about-face with the Real Madrid. Massimiliano Allegri he told himself to the periodical GQ, revealing details of his private but also professional life. The coach of the Juventusfour days before the Italian derby with theInterhe also recounted his return to Juventus and the initial difficulties in regaining the pace after the two years spent in Livorno away from what was his life for “34 consecutive years, eighteen as a player and sixteen as a coach”.
“Football is not an obsession, but I missed it”
After winning his fifth consecutive Scudetto with Juventus, Allegri stopped after being sacked by the Juventus club, which preferred Sarri’s philosophy to him. It was the beginning of a two-year sabbatical that the technician lived with serenity: “I had a great time, apart from the second year when Covid broke out, as for everyone I imagine. In February 2020 I took refuge at my home in Livorno and in the end I needed these two years: I had eighteen as a player and sixteen as a manager without ever stopping. The breaks can be full of positive things, you live situations that you had stopped living. I missed football especially in the second year, but I’ve never experienced it as an obsession “.
“The difference is made by the champions”
Without a team to train, Allegri did not abandon the ball but only as an observer. Whether it was amateur training conducted by his friends or big matches like Real Madrid-Psg, the latter lived after his return to the bench: “A fantastic game; I was really excited to see it because there were some technical plays. of players of absolute value, was the demonstration that the champions make the difference in character, in pride, see Modric and Benzema “.
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“Football is simpler than you think”
Two great players, two champions who, as the coach from Livorno always said, are the essence of football more than the schemes, the modules: “I think the main problem is that the players are used as guinea pigs for the coaches, both in the first teams than in the youth sectors. But football is an art, mother nature has its weight. Everyone can improve, of course, but if someone is poor he can become less scarce, he will never become good. Boys must be taught the game of football, because someone who has knowledge of football then plays everywhere. The difference is made by the champion, not only when he scores obviously, in general when he plays, when he defends, when he attacks; then it is obvious that the coach has to put them together, but you cannot reduce everything to a scheme. Nowadays we only talk about team play, but to play well, all ten must pass the ball properly, because if the first passes it to the second and the second passes it to the third and wrong, the action ends “.
“Building from below? Guardiola has a goalkeeper who throws 80 meters”
It is inevitable to bring the discussion on the dualism between those who prefer the good game and those who pragmatically aim for the result: “It’s fashionable, it’s fun. Guardiola, who is an extraordinary coach, what did he do? Everyone thinks starting from the bottom, he bought a goalkeeper who throws the ball at eighty meters. This is to say that often people are duped by things that do not exist: in the end there is to win the game. And all the games are not the same, not to mention that within the game there are many different ones: in September the games are different from March, in March it takes calm, the psychological pressures are greater, the points weigh and the ball becomes smaller and heavier. fans don’t evaluate. We need fewer schemes and more flexibility and pragmatism. “
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“I had already signed with Real”
After his mother passed away in 2018, Allegri chose to stay close to his father before returning to the bench. After a two-year break, the options on the table were the return to Juventus but also the arrival at Real Madrid, after the refusal pronounced a few years earlier, while he was negotiating the renewal with the club: “I was stopped a lot, I would have returned to coaching, I could have done it sooner but then personal and family issues also took over. The decision to return to Juventus, in addition to being tied to the property and the club, is also the result of the desire to be close to my son, who lives in Turin with his mother. Real Madrid? I had already signed an agreement, then in the morning I called President Perez and told him that I would not go because I had chosen Juventus. On a professional level it would have been the crowning glory of a journey: Milan , Juve, Real “.
“After Vlahovic arrived, I phoned Morata”
On his return to Juventus, the situation was completely different compared to 2014, when he took over a team shaped by Conte and which “just needed to be refined”. Finding old acquaintances but also new faces: “It was a wonderful surprise Danilo. He is a champion, a very intelligent, responsible guy who always puts himself at the team’s disposal. Morata? The night the club caught Vlahovic, I called Álvaro and told him: “You don’t move from here because now you become a much more important player with him”, and so it was.
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“Bad Dusan in front of the door”
Now Allegri’s Juventus has also become the team of Vlahovicthe most onerous January coup in the history of Italian football: “He is a young boy, with little international experience, who however has quality, wants and can improve, and has plenty of time to do it. In front of the door he has an absolute nastiness. Juventus made an important purchase: in the world he, Mbappe e Haaland they are the strongest in circulation of their generation “.
