Sergei Shevchenko - about the coach who headed Chelsea.
Sarrizm Maurizio Sarri - the new head coach of Chelsea. "Aristocrats" again chose an Italian specialist, and this time - one of the most original coaches in Europe.
The style of the game teams Maurizio Sarri, or rather even the style of his work got its name - "sarism". Units are given such recognition, but Sarri is a phenomenon. He was not a professional football player, but worked as a bank employee and only in 40 years focused on football. Maurizio went through all the lower divisions of Italy: Sangiovaneze, Avellino, Grossetto, other clubs from the "quagmire" - there tempered character and perfected ideas that will be revealed later. The lucky ticket turned out to be an appointment in Empoli, which when Sarri rose to Serie A and surprised the elite division with a vivid game. Thanks to this, the jerk of a promising (despite a 56-year-old) specialist - by the way, a native Neapolitan - was invited to Napoli. The risky appointment, from which grew the team-fairy tale and team-idea.
Nostalgia can be already now, and it does not depend on the success of Carlo Ancelotti at the head of Southerners. Napoli with Maurizio Sarri - something like the Netherlands national team of the 1970s. Novelty, aesthetics and stopping in a step away from triumph.
Napoli dominated the field: 60% possession of the ball, 87% accurate gear, 17 punches per goal for the game - for all of these indicators, the Neapolitans became the best in the last draw of the Italian championship. It was an amazing example of collective football, where the result was forged through discipline and automatic understanding between players. Speed, compactness, elegance, active involvement in the ball all, down to the centerbacks and even the goalkeeper. Admired even perepasovki in the center of the field, not to mention the combinations on the approaches to the penalty area. Like Barcelona better days, only more dynamic.
"Napoli is playing fast and easy. One or two touches, no one loses the ball and does not restrain it. This is one of the best teams that I saw, "- Josep Guardiola did not skimp on compliments after the Champions League match. Well, now Pep will meet with Sarri not in the Champions League, but in the championship of England. Will an Italian mentor get accustomed to English football?.
The optimism of Carlo Ancelotti, Roberto Mancini, Claudio Ranieri, Antonio Conte - four Italian coaches have won the Premier League over the past ten years, two of them headed just Chelsea. Encouraging statistics, let each of these examples is purely individual.
Maurizio Sarri stands out even against the background of his colleagues. He is a real "maniac" in everything that concerns football. By its own admission, it works for 13 hours a day: training, viewing matches in a record, reading analytics or specialized literature. This obsession and allowed him to achieve such success in the complete absence of "seed capital" in the form of a game past or work as an assistant with a famous specialist.
According to "Daily Mirror", Sarri will settle on the training base of Chelsea, so as not to be distracted by extraneous matters and devote to the work of all himself. That case when to live in London go not for the sake of prestige, but in the name of self-realization. Such a sacrifice must be rewarded.
Sarri will come to England not only. He brought with him Jorgeino - without exaggeration, the key figure of Neapolitan "sarism". He in the scheme 4-3-3 played deeper than all of the trio of midfielders. Through Jorginho was a draw of the ball, and the Brazilian himself beat records on the number of programs per match (151 exact transmission in the match with Lazio, this is the best figure among the top-5 championships). In addition, two more ex-wards of Sarri - not requiring representation Gonzalo Higuain and Daniele Rugani, who played under his direction in Empoli. The new coach of Chelsea will have someone to rely on, because the gameplay will undoubtedly change dramatically - in three defenders, as it was in Conte's time, Sarri almost never played.
Let's write in positive and candidacy Gianfranco Zola as an assistant. The Italian and the Chelsea fan favorite, having played more than two hundred matches for this club - an excellent combination.
An example of Napoli's game with Maurizio Sarri. Where more indicative are not even goals, but cuts with holding the ball or exiting the defense, as in this video. However, there is also a goal with a gear counter.
Pessimism Parallels between Conte and Sarri are obvious: Antonio won the championship on the run, and now Maurizio will wait for the same. The problem is that these two coaches are hardly comparable to each other. Conte, at the time of his move to England, had behind him three "scudetto" and successful work in the Italian team (not counting a rich playing career). Sarri has not yet won a single team trophy, and for the reorganization of the team for their ideas probably take time, but the result of it will be demanded here and now.
Beautiful game Napoli should not cover the shortcomings in the work of Sarri. The main one, though a continuation of the merits, did not allow the Neapolitans to get ahead of Juventus. Napoli was perfectly played, and Sarri until the last was the basis of the same players, not wanting to destroy the game connections. As a consequence, the leaders were exhausted at the end of the season. Mertens, Kalehon and Hamshik were only a pale shadow of themselves by the time of May (Dries also badly spent World Cup), and the loss of Gulyam because of a serious injury was irreplaceable.
Skillful rotation of the composition distinguishes the champion from just a good team. Of course, in Chelsea, Sarri will have a different set of players, there are a few other possibilities, but was Napoli's bench so bad? There for a year and a half Emanuele Giaccherini, one of the main stars of Euro-2016. Quite absent-minded prospective centrebek Maksimovich, stuck in reserve and left the team hitters Gabbiadini and Pavoletti. All of them became victims of the decisions of the head coach, who himself limited himself in the choice of players. The championship of England is the most intense, and without any rotation for the title will not work, although Chelsea and deprived of the load in the Champions League.
Another feature of Sarri is his uneasy character. He is a tough and quick-tempered man of conservative views, which has often led to conflicts. Sarri quarreled with Mancini, allegedly grossly insulting him on the brow, often grabbed the journalists because of inappropriate questions. A story with an insult to a female correspondent at a press conference ("You are a pretty woman, and that's why I will not send you") went far beyond the football environment. The liberal-liberal newspaper "Repubblica" then criticized both the behavior and image of Sarri, up to the passion for smoking and the habit of wearing a tracksuit. Will the 59-year-old mentor not beat pots with the English press?.
Anyway, lovers of Calco should regret the departure of Sarri in another championship. Serie A lost an original coach, who tirelessly developed his ideas - for example, in Napoli, he quickly moved away from the beloved 4-3-1-2, moving to 4-3-3, and the story with the re-qualification of Mertens at the center of the forefront right into the textbooks. Grazie di tutto e buona fortuna, Mister.
Funny detail.
In season-2006/07 Arezzo, the club of Serie B, all year alternated at the helm of two mentors. One of them was known as a football player, but hardly began his coaching career. The second one was much older, but only a year earlier he got experience in the second Italian division. Unfortunately, Arezzo failed to save neither one nor the other - the 20th place and the flight to Serie C, where the club lives to this day. I think you already guessed that it's about Conte and Sarri.
Author: Sergey Shevchenko.