Conte won his first Scudetto with Juve on 6 May 9 years ago. The result was Inter who beat Allegri’s Milan in match number 37. It was a very happy Inter derby, three goals from Milito and one from Maicon against two from Ibrahimovic, in a season in which Milan had been in the lead until matchday 30 and were perhaps stronger than Juve. Also this time the opponent was Milan, but the closeness between seasons ends here. In the comparison, a very different Count emerges. He had then had two masters, Trapattoni and Lippi, then the charm of Gianni Agnelli as a reference. He who could not have satisfied him for quality, became the interpreter on the field. Conte was the southern part of the company, the one started with Anastasi and Causio at the end of the 60s, the first to mix with the return of foreigners, the first for discipline and sense of honor, enlightened and faithful subjects. But already modern, with the cult of the company and of themselves, already suspicious small entrepreneurs, therefore cultured. Conte seems very instinctive but not, rather tortuous, quirky, tolerant. But he claims that fatigue has an outlet. that is the pact with his players.
At the first Juve as a coach he brought this monarchical rigor that had been overwhelmed by Calciopoli and interpreted the attempt of a generation to rebel against the new reality. He was there before, he had done the old Juve. He could represent it. He made a logical, unspectacular team, with three very strong defenders, Barzagli-Bonucci-Chiellini, two external racing and competitive players, Lichtsteiner and Pepe, a midfield of quality and strength, Vidal-Pirlo-Marchisio, plus an atypical striker, Vucinic, and a center forward, Matri, who was the scorer with just 10 goals. Even if Conte judges Pirlo to be his ideal player, I don’t think that Juve was worth the Inter of now. Inter today are already more worked, above all very different Conte.
At Juve he was the man of the field and the locker room, the most important employee, but an employee. It had a president present every day, a property with habits designed and consolidated over 90 years and three generations. Conte essentially had a specific but unique task: to coach Juve. At Inter he was the field and the club, the true total manager. At Juve the tasks of the coach at a certain point fatally stop, you enter the property. In Inter he had been sought and taken to become the club. Inter’s real task was to fulfill Conte’s requests, mix them and manage them with the general affair. No longer a present property, just good managers with his own contract of dependency.
There was a long moment two months ago in which, between the economic crisis and the virus, Conte was left almost alone as a survivor. It is no coincidence that at that moment Inter began to win all the games. He had a direct, simple, understandable guide to the immediate world of footballers. And through the Conte field he managed the general crisis. A very different man from that of Agnelli, Vucinic and Matri 10 years earlier. Having passed through the strong English experience, a season of winning and bringing rules to a world that has its own and does not foresee other interventions. More than a year accumulating documents for a lawsuit with your employer, which is the worst for a leader’s pride. Today Conte is the first true corporate man of Italian football. A much talked about role, but so far it hasn’t existed.
April 17, 2021 (change April 17, 2021 | 07:28)
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