Italian coach Marco Rossi has become a national hero in Hungary, but now he wants to coach Torino, the team that raised him as a footballer.
What a beautiful revenge, that of Marco Rossi! The European Championships have consecrated him as an excellent coach of Hungary, which came close to qualifying in the terrible “Group of death” which also included France, Germany and Portugal.
In the end, the three of them passed, but up to six minutes from the end it would have been the Magyars to go to the second round, before that Goretzka avoided a sensational home defeat to the Germans. A goal, moreover, celebrated in a polemical way towards the visiting fans, after the political storm over the anti-gay law approved by the Parliament of Orban and the German attempt to expose the rainbow on the facade of the stadium, stopped by UEFA.
“We have not been subjected to any pressure from institutional top management. I have been in Hungary since 2012 and, despite being a foreigner, I have never felt any intolerance towards me “, said the former player from Turin, Brescia, Samp, America and Eintracht Frankfurt on the controversy between the host country and the rest. of European Union.
Nobody would have bet on him in 2010, when his experience driving the Cavese ended up with the exemption, pushing to the point of thinking about leaving football to work in his brother’s office, an accountant.
To relaunch his coaching career was the call in the Hungarian league, where he led the Honved to win a championship expected for 24 years. Awarded with the Bench of Gold 2018 as the best Italian abroad, he then moved to the Slovakian league where he coached the DAC Vienna and then replaced the exonerated Georges leekens on the bench of theHungary.
The brilliant qualification for the final phase of Euro 2020 and the feat against three big names in continental football have made him one of the most fashionable coaches of this summer. The next one will reserve another key appointment like i World Cup in Qatar, but if he could choose, he would do it with his heart: “Still today I am inspired by the values of Torino, as I learned them during the whole process in the grenade youth sector, where I entered at the age of 9. So, from the Pulcini to the First Team, with the late Bersellini, I remained immersed in that spirit. I accept defeat, but I don’t accept not to fight to win. I said it in unsuspecting times, many years ago: coaching Taurus would be the closing of a circle. I’ll explain. My grandfather took me to train at Philadelphia and told me the legend of Great Turin. Also, he always told me about the gold team Hungarian, what it was called Gold team, and then ofHonvéd, the legendary team of Ferenc Puskas. The circumstances of life have meant that in two circumstances I had the privilege of coaching Honvéd, with whom I won the title after 24 years, and now I am at the head of the Hungarian national team. Here, then, is why Taurus would close a circle. It would be the fulfillment of a dream, ”he told Toro News.