inside excellent life
20 years ago Marcello Lippi, Fabio Capello e Giovanni Trapattoni won the football championship in Italy (Juventus), Spain (Real Madrid) and Germany (Bayern di Monaco). This year the winning triplete is for di Massimiliano Allegri (Juventus), Antonio Conte (Chelsea) and Carlo Ancelotti (Bayern di Monaco).
Player-coach - ”He was good at reading the game, he knew to assess where being able to hit the opponents, to identify their weaknesses. He also understood when and where the team was suffering: if he saw the defender in trouble, he was able to settle down in order to limit the game opponent without need for a call from outside. At this regard, he had some innate abilities in this regard. ” (Galeone, football coach)
Management of the unexpected situations – “Imagination and the ability to manage the unexpected. The matches are preparing, but they are never completely planned. I get to decide a formation on Friday afternoon and changing it Sunday on a hunch. The best time it’s seven thirty in the morning. The time usually contradict myself.”
Confidence in himself - “I am very confident. I say things straight to straight, I don’t expect gratitude, compassion, empathy. Feelings that in football no longer exist. I am good at pretending and take refuge in lie at the right time.”
The technique is crucial – “The pitches were shortened to sharpen the game in the narrow space. The matches are won in two ways, with the military occupation of the space and with the quality of the performers. The time to think with the ball at the feet has been reduced, at the end the ball goes to the better players”.
Authoritative leadership – “The dialogue is complicated. Going into the lockroom you find almost of the players with headphones in their ears, loud music. Nobody talks to anybody. Need authority, respect and patience. It is not my custom stress every day saying I’m the one in charge, explaining they are forced to listen not because I am the best, but simply because I am the older. There are talents that are like the waves, I think, for example, at Morata and Coman. You have to measure them, wait for the right time. Some are taken by the hand and behaved like children, from others I find collaboration, experience, personality”.
Task coach - ”Not discounting the importance of the coach, but its main task is to ease the players”.
Go beyond the tactic - “Football is played on a lawn of 106/68 metres running and playing with the feet, the ball often takes strange turns and people would like that under these conditions the solution is in the schematic situations? If the schemas would be so relevant to win, because Real Madrid have spent 100 million for Bale, who quite simply dribble, shoot and smash the door?”. The schemas are just a trace “.
The important thing is wanting to better themselves - “I have a group of guys that have called into question, I still want to win. And I told them I inc *** very if not improve, because they have technical and physical potential is truly remarkable. I say this even though the Champions. “
Before the fury, then the technique. It seems to me that this is the evolution, in last years, has had the mentality of Juventus. Undisputed champions like Buffon and Pirlo, among others, had already won a lot and shown to have this approach to football, but a winning team is a lot more of their individual personalities and it had to prove that all possess and bring to the pitch this mentality. The work of Conte had the merit of bringing the fury in the game, that physical and mental intensity coming before the technique, the team had to show for ninety minutes each game. Allegri has completed this team, which had won three consecutive Italian championships, changing the play ssystem and bringing more attention to the technical work, and on how necessary it’s to continually improve it. Today we talk about what it has been unexpectedly reached the final of the Champions League, but in sports there are no miracles. The team has, however, been shown to have exceeded the psychological limitations that prevented it from playing in order to achieve this goal. This results comes from a great training but also from a winning condition, at least in Italy, and on this confidence it has been possible to build, obstacle after obstacle, this willingness to go beyond the limits. Now everything is possible, because history teaches us that David beat Goliath. Juventus goes to Berlin with a joyful attitude, because they are months that it’s pursuing the dream that, day after day, with the hard work and dedication, it has become a reality and this is a significant psychological advantage to better address this last game. Barcelona, super-favorite may run into a false start as Bolt did in the 100m final at the 2011 World Championships, resulting in disqualification. An example of superficial mind approach dictated by feel fated to win. Juventus will serve the enthusiasm accumulated in the last weeks combined with calm, that will enable it to enhance its play, the one taught by Allegri. Certainly Juventus, on its way in the Champions League, was also lucky and this has highlighted another characteristic, typical of the winning teams: to take advantage of favorable conditions. In fact, it won when it had to win and it’s not easy to get this result, because not confident teams often lose these games not thinking, losing their cool when the goal does not come immediately or if the opposing team is showing more difficult to overcome. In these cases, who should win become insecure, while the opponent gains confidence and can overturn the result in its favor, including the disbelief of the favorites. Commitment, total dedication and technique are the key to this success.
In football there is a growing generation of coaches commander-in-chief, always protagonists. The controversy between Conte (Juventus coach) and Capello (former Juventus coach and now Russia coach) is one example. The important thing is not to accept the criticism but attack. Coaches today are little Caesars, to the great power received by the clubs and the desire to be protagonists, even when it would not be the case. They play the role of the leader always at war, unsheathe aggression, not controlled anger, they want the center of the scene, Trapattoni, Liedholm and Boškov, with equal charisma, had the irony of which today the coaches lack. I think to always need enemies to recharge yourself is a very expensive way to live, role of the coach requires to be perfectionists without necessarily being against the world. In any case communication styles are personal and coach should feel free to express how he feels better.
The relevance of adaptation is not only evident in the history of evolution, but also in the choices that we make in the decisive moments. This is what happened Sunday regarding Juventus – Roma. Juventus coach, Antonio Conte, has prepared the team, changing the way they play so as to adapt it to the module of Rome. “If that is the case we change our nature” said Conte, it means to have the awareness to recognize the value of the opponents, recognizing their strengths – to reduce – and weaknesses – do emerge – . It would have been easier to play using the quality with which Juventus has emerged in Italy in the past two years (ball possession and high intensity) but against Rome that would be harmful. Instead he acted as suggested by Sun Tzu in The Art of War that he’s genius who shows ” the ability to secure the victory by fighting and adapting to the enemy” and “who is prudent, waiting with patience who is not .” Juventus suits and wins.
See the interview with Antonio Conte is embarrassing, because he cannot find reasons to explain the absence of Juventus today after the 70th of the second time against Fiorentina. Trivial errors: first goal on a penalty kick; second, Buffon error; third, Fiorentina player let alone as if it was a recreational match, and the last, the counterattack. Fifteen minutes in which Juventus was physically present on the field and not mentally. Not only the team did not struggle, it did not really play. It’s hard to see how the team that in the last two years has made of the total commitment its winning key now it’s missing it, not just today, because in this championship it has taken already 10 goals . Players tired and mentally satisfied? It is notpossible to play for three consecutive years always at the best and this is the way in which it occurs? Impatience with a leader who always remember to the players the value of the hard work? The team higher class level of this year were led to believe that you can win by engaging less? Only Conte and the team may know. Waiting for Real Madrid.
Inter and Juventus both want to win today this game, not only because it is considered to be the derby of Italy but for other reasons far more important. Stramaccioni want to win to be confirmed on the Inter bench and his players because they know that winning it would give a meaning much more positive in their championship. Conte wants to win to continue to maintain a strong pressure on opponents and increase the team’s belief really be able to achieve any success playing with anger and determination. It’s really the game of the motivation, where it win will who has the desire to give up until the referee blows the whistle at the end of the match. Everyone is looking for the great results, of course for the three points, but also to prove to themselves that they are the strongest.
That’s why the coaches should never lose self-control, and the leader of a group must always find another option to simply scream out his moods, whether of anger as those of Conte, Juventus coach and Rossi Sampdoria coach or resignation such as the new coach of Roma.
“Penalty is when referee whistles,” said Boskov (it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vujadin_Boškov) with humor and closing immediately the controversy that often arises in relation to arbitration calls. At Juventus was denied a penalty at the 93 ° in the match against Genoa but Conte’s and some players’ reaction against the referee is to blame. The Juventus president Andrea Agnelli said that you can not lead by Lord against error so obvious and damaging the team. I would like to know when then that we should behave as Lord, what is the scale of behaviors that at one point the Lord leaves the stage and enters the bully. It has this behavior when you want to intimidate the referee and run at the same time a warning to refereeing organization. But the behavior of Conte was similar at the player’s reaction foul and should be equally punished. Juventus have of course the right to express its reasons in relation to events that occurred during the game, to ask for explanations and more clarity in relation to rules that appear ambiguous. This does not mean passively accepting what is happening, but act in accordance with the rules. Otherwise it seems to reply the dominant culture in Italian football that is “first beat and think only if you’re forced.”
Interview on newspaper Tuttosport:
“It ‘s a mistake to think that a team can have the same attitude, no matter what is the competition. The competitive pressure is determined not only by the opponents but also from the environment, the context, the expectations. For Juventus, for example, it was “easier” to face Chelsea in a match in which it had little to lose than the Nordsjaelland. When the team knows to have only one good result, it enters in the field with a different state of mind. ”
“In such cases the absence of the coach weighs. The presence of Conte, with his approach as a commander in chief, would be of great help. Helping out in the championship there is no need, the team does not feel the need but in the Champions League can make a difference. ”
The “syndrome draw” the matches is already there. Now it’s the time to solicitate the team pride . ”
