Massimiliano Allegri says it all. From his way of seeing football farewell to you, the former Juventus coach says it all a Sky Soccer Club: “Future? Maybe to Rome or to Naples? I don’t know anything yet. I see a few games. I’ve been a year looking at a few, then lately I’ve seen more. Abroad I saw Tottenham-Bayern last year. I did some reflections recently, Italian football has to roll up its sleeves a bit. I “players“? It takes balance. I grew up with old-fashioned coaches, it’s not all to throw away what they taught us. Now I hear about the game from behind and all, balance is needed. You have to put the player back in the center, you have to work on it. Then the tactic is needed. But we complain when we go to Europe and see the players pass the ball at a thousand per hour. We need to go back to working more in the youth sectors, on individual technique and beyond. The players have become a tool to show that the coaches are good. I was in love with the players. Yesterday you showed a report on Ronaldinho and I get excited. To see Pepe I got excited, he played a crazy match, as well as the interventions he made Chiellini in Cagliari ”.
you – “Do Porto and Burussia have better players than Juve and Inter? I don’t know if they have them stronger, but they aren’t good anymore. There is also randomness. Juve were unlucky and deserved to pass, I’m sorry for the boys. I spent five years at Juve, we split naturally. I’m sorry that Juve lost today, but we must also give credit to Benevento. Pippo was very good, there are also merits. There was a diversity of views on the farewell. On the type of game? No, Juve must always win. What if I knew he would take Sarri? No, I didn’t know. We also agreed on almost everything, the differences are not too many. Then he sent me away Agnelli but we remained on excellent terms. In those five years we had fun. Important market choices were also made. Difficult to give the right inputs after five years? Yes, it is difficult and this was one of the reasons why the president, together with Paratici and Nedved, decided to change me. The season finale was the logical ending of the story with Juve, with Ajax it didn’t go well. I am very attached to Juventus, just as I remained with Milan and Cagliari. Would I stay there again? I don’t know, Andrea is doing a good job. Now it is also difficult to say“.
PIRLO – “I don’t know what difficulty Andrea can have. I know that being a coach is very difficult. Being a coach cannot be explained. There are two coaches, until Saturday he has a job then Sunday is a whole other thing. What do you know if after five minutes they throw one out of you. When they ask me if they can come and see the training sessions, I answer: it’s not like I’m sending the missiles to the moon ”.
BUILDING FROM THE BOTTOM – “But we have to go back to ABC. In passing the ball, the passes are not all the same. The construction from behind? Who doesn’t do it nowadays, but there are times to do it or not to do it ”.
GREAT PLAYERS – “You have companies in front of you, there are social networks. Respect is needed: you have to give respect and demand respect. Then the players always listen to the coach. For them you have to be a point of reference. I have trained many great players, from Ronaldo to Ronaldinho ”.
REAL MADRID – “How many” no “did I say? The only real no to Real Madrid. Three years ago the president called me, but I gave the floor to president Agnelli and promised him to stay. I hope to return in June because I have great passion, I have also received some calls recently. I want to enjoy the exploits of my players ”.
DANI ALVES – “We were in Naples for the Italian Cup, I’ll put it in. After five minutes he tells me: I go to man on Insigne who is the only one who can bother us. He was right. Then we play with Barcelona and it goes to man on Neymar and goes a great game ”.
CHAMPIONS FINAL – “We lost the final with Real Madrid because they defended better. In great matches the great defense wins, I also heard it from the basketball coach Messina ”.
JUVE AGAIN – “They worked well and made a good team. They have won the Super Cup, are in the final of the Italian Cup and are fighting for the Champions League. Chiesa is doing excellent things, Morata had a good start then he had problems with that virus. The midfield was changed en bloc. In my opinion they have qualities. With the generational change, the characteristics of the players also change. To go back to winning it takes calm, the players are not machines. Juventus still have the chance to win the Italian Cup, it would be a positive year. Then maybe he could have been closer to Inter, but many things need to be considered, such as injuries ”.
A LEAGUE – “If the best are still those who are more advanced in age like Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic and when Chiellini plays, we need to reflect. Mancini has all the weight on him, now everyone expects him to win the European Championship to save Italian football. If the national team made a bad European, Italian football would go into a deep crisis, but we must not think like this and we must build independently of the European championship “.
YOUNG PEOPLE – “I understand that as soon as you play two games it costs 50 million, but now you have to settle down. Then to burn them quickly, when you have everything and immediately it becomes a problem. If you have a full fridge, you are not hungry ”.
INTER – “The Juventus squad is an excellent squad. Inter is a team that can play a quarter-final or a semi-final of the Champions League. It has more established players, some have grown a lot like Barella and Bastoni. Antonio has been doing a great job since last year, next year he can do a great Champions League “.
ERIKSEN – “Antonio was very good. Eventually he took him further back, lowered him ten meters and put the ball where he wants. He saw it, worked on it in training and brought it there ”.
DYBALA – “When Dybala came to Juventus I told him: you can’t be a center forward here. At Palermo he played attacker but 50 meters from goal. He is an extraordinary player Paulo. Juve missed a lot, he is someone who scores and determines ”.
MILAN AND JUVE – “They are two opposing societies, but the story of the two families is opposite. Berlusconi was a showman, Juve had to win for Fiat and be the first in Italy. It’s a different DNA. When I arrived at Milan it had been seven years since I had won a Scudetto. It is essential to know the DNA of the team where you are going to coach ”.
RONALDO – “He is human too. But as he unmarks and attacks the door, few do. He has a head mechanized on scoring goals. He has won Champions and cups, the Ballon d’Or five times. The one who plays with him must understand where to go in space, where he is not there. Mandzukic ran a lot with him… ”.
MANDZUKIC – “Don’t touch me Mandzukic. Was it my favorite? At Milan I had Robinho, then there was Ronaldinho… I love technical players. He let the ball pass where you couldn’t. Cassano did this too. Seedorf was a stuff… then also a pain in the ass (laughs, ed). Once he made two benches then he came to me. I told him: get ready that Sunday is the third (laughs, ed) ”.
FORWARDS – “The best five? Benzema, Lewandowski, Ibrahimovic… I told Ibra to play the center forward, just think if that big head had already done it ten years ago… He went around because he didn’t like being beaten. Higuain had a technique. I like Kane but in my opinion he is not at Lewandowski’s level. Haaland? We need to work on it on a technical level, but in 10 meters it takes 7. Benzema has an incredible quality ”.
NATIONAL – “Me after the World Cup? It is still long, there is time. Roberto Mancini is now doing an extraordinary job, the players have grown in self-esteem ”.
RONALDO O MESSI – “Ronaldo or Messi? They are two different players. One is bigger and one is stronger ”. Is Ronaldo the greatest and Messi the strongest? Allegri nods …
DEFENCE – “Three-man defense or four-man defense? I played a little to three at Juve. I think there has never been a team that won the Champions League with a three-man defense ”.
ATTACK JUVE – “Mandzukic, Dybala and Higuain were playing, we went to Florence with a 7 point advantage. We had taken a bad habit in which we said: “Levi Higuain and win the game”. I said that I had made the best play, empowering them. At that moment I put two midfielders and Mandzukic, Higuain, Dybala and Cuadrado on the right. After five minutes I saw everyone with a smile on their lips: I had the ass to find the solution ”.
INIESTA OR PIRLO – “Iniesta or Pirlo? They were two different players, they could play together. I can say Pirlo because I coached him. But Iniesta was crazy, even Xaxi. I dreamed of that Barcelona at night ”.
SUAREZ O MORATA – “For Suarez career. But Alvaro has grown a lot, he is a player for a one-off match. He decides the dry matches, there it is deadly ”.
BENTANCUR – “For me he cannot play in front of the defense. Maybe he can do one there, but not five. With me he played many times in front of the defense, but maybe once and then ten from the mezzala. In front of the defense he has more playing time ”.
LUKAKU E LAUTARO – “They are the best couple in Italy. Conte was very good, because they have quite similar characteristics seen from the outside ”.
PREMIER O LEAGUE – “Like charm both of them. Then if I stay in Italy I’m happy ”.
BARZAGLI AND CHIELLINI – “When you saw them two against two you really saw that they enjoyed defending, an extraordinary stuff”.
SAN SIRO – “San Siro is very heavy, the Turin stadium is too heavy, but San Siro more. At Cagliari I had good players to whom I was very attached, I was convinced that some could play for Milan, then I joined Milanello and I saw that the technical level was different. Playing it every week is hard ”.
FOOTBALL – “Football is like a gray suit. It never goes out of style. Then fashion is a red and white sweater ”.
BUFFON – “The first time at Juve we played with Chievo. Buffon had touched the ball one minute and 39, the halfback 40 seconds. Then I said to the team: either you won’t pass it to Buffon or I’ll take the goalkeeper away ”.
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