Happy: ‘Where am I going? I don’t know, but I’m back in June. To Juve? But no, Pirlo is doing well ‘

Massimiliano Allegri talks about football again after a long time. He does it on Sky, in the broadcast of “Calcio Club”. They immediately ask him if he will go to Roma or Napoli. He smiles and responds. “I still don’t know anything about the future. But I want to go back in June, I enjoy starting training again. To Juve? No, Pirlo is fine. When I was training I watched some games, I was bored. Now, however, many, also to try to understand the substitutions, but I could not guess one. I made some reflections, I think that for Italian football you have to roll up our sleeves, the eliminations of the Italians should make us reflect. Often people talked about me instead of the “players”. I grew up with outdated trainers and I think neither this nor that should be thrown away. Soccer is serious, you need balance. You have to put the player back in the center and work on it. Tactics are needed, but then in Europe you face players who pass the ball at 100 per hour, you have to go back to working in the youth sectors and individual technique. Sorry to say, but the players have become a tool to show that the coaches are good. I was deeply in love with my players, yesterday I saw a report about Ronaldinho with my son and I was excited. You can’t focus on tactics if you don’t have the right players. “

You deserve it

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Now there is a lot of talk about building from below. “We need to step back and get back to work at ABC. Who is the one who does not build from below? Juventus were unlucky, perhaps in both games they would have also deserved the pass, but I make a global speech. Technically good players are a pleasure to see and this aspect must be taken care of especially in youth teams. You have to have ten players who pass the ball well, otherwise it becomes a problem ”. They ask him if this was what led him to leave Juventus. “I had a great time for five years, the closure was natural – he says -. I’m sorry Juventus lost, but we must give Benevento credit. We do not always look at the negative things, Benevento played an important match today. We also talk about those who do things in a positive way. What happened to Andrea Agnelli when they broke up? There was a diversity of opinions. He knew nothing about Sarri at all. We didn’t even realize it, it was a natural closure. Obviously, the election was made by the president, but I have remained in excellent condition with him ”.

Are Juventus coming back?

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Dry question: would you go back to Juve? He smiles and reiterates: “Now it is impossible to say, but then there is Andrea who in my opinion is doing well.” What is Juve missing to return to the Champions League final? “I don’t know. One thing Fabio Capello taught me (present in video link from Marbella, ed) is that seeing the players from the outside might have fired them, while then training them is something else. How can I find out what is missing? I say that Juventus worked well, they are in the final of the Italian Cup so that they win it and enter the top 4 of the league, it would not be bad. So let’s not forget that Covid has upset all the balances. Bad in the league? The midfield has changed completely, the squad is of quality. Calm is needed, the players are not like the machines that change it the same and have the same performance. However, if in the Italian league the best are still those who are more advanced in age like Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic and when Chiellini plays, we have to make some reflections ”.

Bury

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“He has the potential to make an excellent Champions League next year. Barella and Bastoni have grown a lot, Conte has done a great job since last year ”.

Champions

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“If I choose Ronaldo or Messi? They are two different players. One is bigger (CR7), the other is stronger (Messi). At Haaland you can work technically, but he has incredible potential, in 10 meters he takes 7.”

Defense to 3 or 4

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“You never played a 3 with Juve. Galliani told me that no one in Europe has won the Champions League playing three.”

Iniesta or Pirlo

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“Two different players could play together. I say Pirlo because I trained him, but also Iniesta … I dreamed of that Barcelona at night, in a year I faced him four times.”

Suarez or Morata

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“For Suarez’s career. But Álvaro has grown a lot. He decides the dry games. We go to the final in 2015 because he scores the goal with Real and then to the final. He is deadly in the dry games.”

Bentancur

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“In my humble opinion, he cannot play in front of the defense. He can play a game. He is like a reserve player who plays 1-2 games but cannot make 5. midfielder. He has inadequate playing time., Because he stop, think and then play. ”

Lukaku-Lautaro

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“At the moment they are the best couple in Italy. Conte was very good at putting them in a position to make a difference.”

A carpi

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“The famous anger that made me throw my jacket? It was the last game before half-time. I always told the guys,” Don’t ruin my vacation, I don’t want to lose before half-time. “And that time Lichsteiner came in and stopped at the opponent inside the area and took a crossbar and took off my jacket. As with Frosinone: in 93 ‘Dybala takes a corner, dribbles and loses the ball: corner kick and goal. He was in his second game at Juventus: in black and white you keep that ball at 1-0, you don’t have to score 2-0 ”.