” For us Italians the call of home is strong. Feel that something is missing. It has been a heavy year. I begin to feel the weight of distant friends, elderly parents I rarely see. But at my age I only make professional choices. I won’t be able to train for 20 years. It is the registry office that says “, so Maurizio Sarri, in the yellow hours on his landing at Juventus, speaks exclusively to Vanity Fair (the full interview on tomorrow’s newspaper) about his desire to return to Italy after last year on the bench of Chelsea, which led to the triumph in the Europa League.
Sarri, who grew up in Tuscany but has Neapolitan origins, on the pages of Vanity Fair responds to the controversy of the Napoli fans, who would not like to see him go to a rival team after the three seasons at the helm of the Azzurri, and indirectly also to the president De Laurentiis, with whom a year ago he did not leave himself very well: The Neapolitans know the love I feel for them, I chose abroad last year not to go on an Italian team. The profession can lead to other paths, the relationship will not change. Loyalty is giving 110% when you are there. What does it mean to be faithful? And if one day the company sends you away? What are you doing: stay true to a wife you divorced from? The last flag was Totti, in the future we will have zero. ” As for the longing for change that is sweeping away many of our championship benches, Sarri is upset with the concept of victory at all costs. An extreme that blurs the minds of the fans and some managers – something that worries me more. It’s sport, it doesn’t make sense. One cannot be unhappy with a second place “.
Of the legendary sarrismo, which Treccani welcomed among the neologisms as a conception of football but also as an attitude of challenge to the establishment, Sarri says that it is a way of playing football and that’s it. It comes from the slaps taken. Evolution is the daughter of defeats. Not just in football. I can’t rejoice after a victory. Who wins, remains firm in his convictions. A defeat marks me in longer, makes me critical, moves me one step further. My nephew let me read the facebook page Sarrismo e Rivoluzione. They have fun, I’m anti-social, I don’t even have whatsapp .
And speaking of his left-wing political positions, Maurizio Sarri explains to Vanity Fair that “there is little in football. To avoid finding someone against. My drawing is known. Dad was a crane operator at the Italsider of Bagnoli. My grandfather was a partisan, he saved two American aviators shot down by the Nazis, kept them at home for two months. It is normal that I had certain ideas, today politics no longer interests me. I see stories of extreme sadness. From afar, Italy is a place that wastes opportunities “.
Of the champions – in the event that he should really coach Juventus he would find one named Cristiano Ronaldo – he says: There are medium-sized teams of great players or large teams of average players. I work on this. The champion is the one available to the team, otherwise he is just a good player. We are full of phenomenal setters. Also at traffic lights. Fun is contagious if collective. If you’re having fun alone, boredom comes in 5 minutes. “
Of the legendary suit he wears in the field: If society required me to go dressed otherwise, I would have to accept. I am fond of the young colleagues of the Primavera championship who wear the tie on unthinkable fields. They make me sad, sincerely “.
Of his superstitions: “I have less than those who attribute me. I stopped dressing only in black. I have the habit of not setting foot in the field, inside the lines I say, until the game is over. Sooner or later I will also abandon this: already in certain stadiums the benches are on the opposite side of the locker rooms and the lawn I have to step on by force. When you start winning, the surprises end “.
From: Il Mattino.
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