Long interview with Dazn Of Daniele De Rossitechnician of Genoawho will face the Olimpico on Monday evening Romaa team of which the former midfielder was a symbol, as a player, and then coached it, from 16 January to 18 September 2024, the date of his dismissal: “I’m sorry for how it went – says De Rossi now – but in the end the team had the exploit I had predicted. I had a clear plan: the first year we build, the second we grow, the third we fight for the scudetto. We weren’t exactly crazy to focus on this group that second I’m very strong. The presidents hung on my every word, on a football level I always had a lot of freedom, they trusted me, they started asking me things before confirming me for the next three years. Then things got a little broken and I’m sorry, but what happened, I and my staff didn’t deserve the dismissal? protect me and go against the players.” Now he has to face Roma as an opponent: “A special feeling. I’ve always wanted Roma to win every day, now I’m working to make them lose. Now I no longer jump on the sofa when I watch Roma, I see them as a colleague and as a former player. If they win, however, I’m happy.”
“Spalletti always explained everything to me”
De Rossi also spoke about the technicians who coach in Serie A who have coached him in the past: “Spalletti is brilliant. He always explained to me what he made me do and Antonio Conte himself. There was nothing left to chance and it was all with a view to making the team play better. Even Ranieri said: ‘A mediocre idea that everyone does is better than a brilliant idea that only four of them understand’. I absorbed all the meetings, I ate those of Spalletti with my eyes while there were people yawning. I have always been passionate about football from a tactical point of view. I like to understand what is happening around me.”
“I would like to copy Allegri’s results”
“In Italy there are many good coaches. Italiano is the one who is doing best in recent years and he is one who intrigues me a lot. Fabregas is no longer a surprise, but he is a good discovery because he changes from match to match and always gives an idea. It will be a tiring week of preparation when we play against Como. Chivu who has put something of his own, then there is the respect for Allegri who maybe plays a little different football. But do you want to ask yourself a question if that’s always up there? There are coaches that maybe you don’t want to copy in football, but you would like to copy his results. Maresca at Chelsea is proving to have something brilliant but my idol is Guardiola, he is the best. We were at dinner with him and De Zerbi, they wrote everything on paper, they looked like Leonardo and Michelangelo.”
“Luis Enrique changed everything in his training”
And then there is Luis Enrique, winner of the last Champions League with Paris Saint Germain, with whom De Rossi worked at Roma for a few months: “When I asked him to go and see his training he told me that he had changed everything compared to when he coached us at Roma: this means that we evolve. At the time he explained to us how the Barcelona model worked, but the thing that left me most attached to him was the human aspect. For me it was enlightening, it changed my way to approach me.”
