Next Sunday, two of the key players in Italy's 2006 World Cup victory in Germany, and teammates for 10 years at AC Milan's highly successful Italian and international club, will meet again as adversaries, one on the Juventus bench and the other on the Napoli bench. It will be a somewhat special evening for both of them, even if the Napoli coach tries not to show emotion or particular tension for this appointment. "It's true that I have a few grey hairs," he explained yesterday after the Napoli-Genoa match, "but I'm still young and I hope and wish to play a hundred more matches like the one next Sunday against Andrea." "Of course," Gattuso observed, "it sounds a bit strange to think that we'll be on the benches of Napoli and Juve, because eight or nine years ago we were both protagonists on the pitch. At that time, no one would have bet a euro on me that I could have a career like the one I am having. Now it's up to us to prove that we are good. After his appointment as Juventus coach, I told Andrea that it was his own problem, now we both have to prove that we are good and have a great knowledge of football. Gattuso is preparing to experience a fundamental season in his coaching career. Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis decided to bet on him last December when he called him to revive the team's fortunes as a replacement for Carlo Ancelotti, who had been one of his mentors. Today, after two days of the championship, Napoli is at the top of the table with a full score, with eight goals scored and zero conceded in the first two days of the championship. But the first real test of the team's endurance will come on Sunday evening in Turin, when he will have to face his friend Pirlo. Gattuso's coaching career is already quite long despite his relatively young age. He began his career in 2013 in Switzerland at Sion, where he ended his career on the pitch as a player-coach. That same year, hired by Zamparini to lead Palermo in Serie B, he was fired after six days. After a spell with Ofi Crete in the Greek championship (he resigned after seven matchdays), from 2015 until 2017 he sat on the bench of Pisa, gaining promotion from Lega Pro to Serie B in the first year and relegating the following season. In November 2017, as coach of AC Milan's Primavera team, he was called to replace Montella at the helm of the first team. He achieved sixth place in the league and the following year led the Rossoneri to fifth place, until the consensual termination of his contract. A little less than a year ago, De Laurentiis called, demanding he perform well at an ambitious club and satisfy a particularly demanding fan base. On Sunday in Turin, Gattuso will have to do without Lorenzo Insigne, who suffered a pulled muscle yesterday that will keep him out for 15-20 days and will also mean he will miss Mancini's call-up to the national team.
Article published on September 28, 2020 - 21:45 PM - Fabio Testa
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