"The championship is dedicated to my daughter Matilda, and also to my deceased brother Marcello." Napoli coach Spalletti was interviewed. He tried his best to control his emotions and try to show a detached attitude, but he couldn't hold back his tears after all. orbital.
His thoughts went back to more than forty years ago, when he was still playing in the Fiorentina echelon. After returning home from school in the afternoon, his brother Marcello would bring him sandwiches and training bags.
A few years later, Spalletti left Florence to play for a local amateur team while working part-time in his brother's factory, assembling sofas.
Maradona and "Gullit"
Spalletti finally brought the Serie A trophy to the Maradona Stadium. This is his first Serie A championship and the first time this team has stood on top of Italy in the post-Maradona era. Spalletti recalled another memory, related to Maradona. It was August 21, 1988. As a player, Spalletti played against Diego for the first and only time. At that time, Spalletti played for Spezia, and his team was eventually eliminated by Naples 1-3 in the Coppa Italia.
Spalletti was born in the small town of Certaldo in Tuscany, a fellow of Boccaccio, one of the "Three Masters of the Renaissance". Spalletti has a strong Tuscan accent, but as a player's resume, he made Spezia Adam his second hometown.
In 1985, Spalletti left Tuscany for the first time and came to Entela on the Ligurian coast. It was the very young coach Ventura who brought him to this team—— Yes, it is Ventura who will bring Italy out of the World Cup in the future. The friendship between the two continues to this day.
In the summer of 1986, Maradona led Argentina to the top of the world, and Spalletti was brought to Spezia by Ventura. Ventura was fired a few months later, but Spalletti stayed on for four seasons. Here, he also met his future wife Tamara, who was a newspaper salesman at the time.
In 1990, when "Summer of Italy" was sung in San Siro, Napoli was already the Serie A champion, and Spalletti left Spezia. After a year at Viareggio, he arrived at Empoli in 1991.
At that time, Empoli was still playing in Serie C. The 1992-93 season was the end of Spalletti's player era. His teammates included Montella, Billindelli and Gallant, who were still very young at the time. The then club president Corsi and Spalletti were similar in age , he is still in charge of the team. The player Spalletti spent his entire career in Serie C and Serie D. At that time, he still had long hair and had an excessive desire for performance on the court, which earned him the nickname "Gullit".
Spalletti's Growth History
After retiring, Spalletti started his coaching career from the Empoli youth team. At the end of the 1993-94 season, Empoli was in the quagmire of relegation, Spalletti was raised to fight the fire, and finally led the team to successfully relegation through the play-offs.
A year later, he picked up the coach of the first team again. This time he led the team to complete a double jump in two years, directly promoted from Serie C to Serie A.
In the 1997-98 season, coach Spalletti came to the top league for the first time, and Empoli witnessed his transformation and leap. After Naples won the Serie A championship this season, Empoli also sent blessings to Naples: In addition to Spalletti, Di Lorenzo, Zelinski and Mario Rui also came from here.
After leading Empoli to complete the task of relegation, Spalletti, who is nearly 40 years old, is already a hot young coach in the Apennines. Spalletti received an olive branch from Sampdoria, but he ended up getting lost here. In those years, the famous "sailors" had a much more complicated locker room environment than Empoli, and managing the locker room has never been Spalletti's forte.
Less than half a season later, he was replaced by club star Pratt, and after Pratt messed up his job, Spalletti returned to Samp, but what awaited the team at the end of the season was the fate of relegation.
After two failed coaching experiences, Spalletti successfully avoided relegation twice in Udinese and Ancona, and won back his reputation.
In 2002, he officially took over the coach of Udinese from his former mentor Ventura, and passed the threshold of "elite coach" here-21 years later, Dia's goal surpassed Naples' goal. The celebration was postponed for 4 days, which also allowed Spalletti to return to his hometown and usher in his own coronation in Udine. Everything may be destined.
Spalletti immediately brought Udinese back to the European competition. At the end of this three-year cooperation, this team from the northeast corner of Italy has become the fourth pole of Serie A outside the top three in the north. .
De Sanctis, Sancini and Jorgensen are the backbone of this team, Jankulovski, Muntari and Iaquinta are starting to stand out, but for Spalletti, the most critical That man was David Pizarro. The Chilean who played as a front midfielder when he debuted was transformed into a midfielder by Hodgson the previous season. He then became one of the most comprehensive and powerful organizers in Serie A. The cooperation between Pizarro and Spalletti will not end with the latter leaving Udine. The bald coach brought the Chilean to Rome.
from Roma to Roma
Pizarro-style tactical inventions inspired Spalletti. After taking over the coach of Inter Milan a few years later, he will carry out a similar transformation on Brozovic, allowing Brozovic, who was close to leaving the team before, to find his position in Inter Milan again, and the team has benefited so far.
However, Spalletti's greatest invention on the dugout was a new version of Totti. In the eyes of the former Roma coach, his team played not 4231, but 4230-Totti is the "0": his position on the field is very free, making it impossible for opponent defenders to mark.
In an interview with Totti in
CAB주소 half a year ago, Totti said somewhat self-confidently: "Francesco Totti is not a striker, he just happened to score so many goals that people think he is a striker." At this point, Totti has Spalletti to thank for creating a hybrid role between a centre-forward and a number 10.
In February 2006, Totti suffered a serious injury against Empoli and his prospects for the World Cup were in doubt. At such a difficult time, the Roma coach gave him full emotional support. In the subsequent 2006-07 season, Totti scored 26 goals in the league, earning the Serie A Golden Boot and the European Golden Boot at the same time.
After the summer of 2006, Spalletti's Roma team had three World Cup champions: Totti, De Rossi and Perotta. De Rossi and Pizarro form the team's double midfielder, Perotta stays behind Totti, flanked by Taddei and Mancini.
At the time, this formation was also called "460". At the league level, Roma is the only team that can pose a threat to Inter Milan after "phone Gate". In the Champions League, they eliminated Real Madrid in 2008, but fell to the feet of Manchester United for two consecutive years.
In the 2006-07 season, after the famous 1-7 defeat at Old Trafford, Spalletti still found Ferguson. Later, Ferguson recalled that clip and praised Spalletti's measure. Spalletti has long given the impression of being petty, but that wasn't always the case.
Of course, Spalletti prefers to win. After the 5-1 thrashing of Juventus this season, he hurried to the entrance of the player tunnel, grabbed Allegri who was leaving in a hurry, and shook hands with the opponent's coach.
When Spalletti cannot lead Roma to continue to win, the breakup between the two sides is inevitable. The successor Roma has found is Ranieri, who is about to repeat the fate of Spalletti and Inter Milan in the final moment of the championship, but eventually lost.
Spalletti went to the cold St. Petersburg. He brought the Russian Super League champion to the Neva River twice. He took off his shirt in the cold winter of minus ten degrees, showed a strong figure, and celebrated with the fans.
St. Petersburg is the longest stop in Spalletti's coaching career, but in the 2013-14 season, with the heavy investment in football sweeping the Russian Super League, Anzhi Makhachkala suddenly emerged. In order to deal with the arms race, Zenit, Hulk and Witsel were brought in at high prices - Spalletti once again lost control of the dressing room and left the team in the second half of the season.
Captain Killer? Champion coach!
The nickname of "Captain Killer" was also placed on Spalletti's head. Totti is followed by Icardi: The Argentine won the top scorer in Serie A in Spalletti's first season in charge of Inter Milan, and fell out with the club the following year because of contract renewal issues. His wife Wanda told the media a series of The statement obviously exacerbated the tension.
The captain's armband came to Handanovic's arm, and amidst the chaos, Spalletti finally managed to lead the team to keep the Champions League qualification for two consecutive years, thanks to Vecino and Nainggolan.
After Icardi came Insigne. In the summer of 2019, Inter Milan invited Conte, and Spalletti was unemployed at home. He was once very close to AC Milan, but Inter Milan refused to pay a termination fee for him to coach his arch-enemy. Milan chose Pioli, and Spalletti came to Naples. After leading the team to a strong start, the team fell behind in the second half of the sprint stage and finally ranked third. Insigne failed to reach an agreement with the club on the issue of contract extension. As early as the middle of the season, he finalized his next home: Toronto on the other side of the Atlantic.
From Udinese and Roma, to Inter Milan and Naples, Spalletti has led his team to qualify for the Champions League nine times before this season, but has never won the Serie A championship. His combination with Naples, in the eyes of many people, is a perfect match between born losers, but at the age of 64, Spalletti finally pierced this layer of window paper, and thus became the oldest champion in Serie A history coach.
For Spalletti, Di Lorenzo was the perfect captain. He came from Tuscany like himself, and belonged to a foreigner in Naples. Di Lorenzo is not as radiant as Totti, not as pushy as Icardi, and lacks Insigne's Neapolitan genes. What he has is only an unquenchable fighting spirit and a strong self-motivation. Spalletti did not choose Zielinski and Mario Rui, who have been in the team for a longer period of time. They have tasted the pain of losing the championship five years ago. Di Lorenzo represents a new page.
The current Spalletti is still not a perfect coach, and this Napoli team is not impeccable, but Napoli has played a near-perfect performance in Serie A this season.
"Number zero center" Totti is already in the past tense, and Zhengyin center Osimene is the present; Kvaratsheria shines immediately after coming to the team, and the English that Spalletti learned when he was waiting for work at home comes in handy Useful; As early as when coaching Inter Milan, Spalletti hoped that the team would introduce Lobotka from Celta, and the two finally met in the Bay of Naples. To this day, Spalletti finally gets the belated, well-deserved recognition.
