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The most fascinating part of Allegri’s speeches, however, is always the one in which he takes a more mystical turn. The coach’s job, as he sees it, has nothing to do with theory, with codified principles, with a method. He is against the Coverciano camps, or almost, because “it is not possible to explain how a coach is made.” According to him, there are two professions: “There are coaches from Monday to Saturday, which is one profession, Sunday is something else.” And from how he is excited, it is clear that what he likes is to live the game on Sunday. The coach as a sorcerer who, following his unrepeatable instinct, can dominate the chaos of a football match. A world understood as full of unpredictable variables: «why [la domenica] there is the management of the unexpected, it is neither technical nor tactical ». Something that had already made it clear when he declared, after a match against Fiorentina, “Let’s finish the first half, let’s not do any damage and then let’s see what happens in the second.” The game, therefore, as an entity in itself with a life of its own, with respect to which the coach always oscillates between doing damage (because he plays too much) and remedying his own damage to put the players in a position to win the game. game. (The party, therefore, as a Greek deity to be treated with respect and not angry). “The games are won by the players, sometimes I hurt and then I remedy it,” he said after the comeback with Tottenham; and when asked what a coach should do, he is explicit: “Do as little damage as possible.” Yesterday, in Sky, he reiterated that “The coach lives by sensations” and that the most important quality is not to make mistakes in the changes, praising Capello in this specialty. He is a typical character of the Italian tactical school, that of managing the group and the moments and reading the matches during the race. Allegri’s ability in reading games. we had written here.
But in this respect Allegri really seems to recapture the instinct of the horse racing enthusiast, the ultimate random sport, where you need to develop a sorcerer’s instinct to understand racing progress. And in fact comparisons between players and horses have always been part of his rhetoric. In an increasingly professionalized world of football, in which technical responsibilities are increasingly divided within a squad (and Juve de Pirlo is perhaps the best example of this), and where the weight of statistical databases is always important, Allegri vindicates the power of the uniqueness of the coach. sensitivity, that to understand the players “You must see how the legs move. At this point, it is natural to wonder if in this vision, in which the coach should almost disappear, the coach does not become even more decisive.
When he says these things, it is inevitable to wonder if Allegri really believes what he says. If, on the other hand, you are not hiding behind the mask of what is natural for things, you do not need to study and upgrade to be a winning coach. All his speeches are full of contradictions, with what he had said just five minutes before, or even just with what he showed on the field. He speaks ill of the three-man defense, but he used it; He speaks badly of zone defense, but plays zone; He speaks well only of technical players, but in his career he has often tolerated them poorly; he speaks ill of the analysts, but at Juve he had a team of analysts. One could go on indefinitely, getting lost in the endeavor of trying to bridge the gap between what Allegri is like and how he looks. Who knows if this super naturalistic, almost new age approach of his really didn’t give him bad publicity, denying him career opportunities that coincide with his extraordinary curriculum. What does Allegri gain by diminishing his work, his professionalism, his uniqueness every time he speaks into a microphone?
DWe sure miss it, we would have listened to it all night. We look forward to June, when he will probably sit on a new bench, guessing the fittest players by how his legs move.
