Stephan Lichtsteiner

[SubComandante]

      +1 Und hier wird immer Stucki nach gelabert , wir hätten das Beste Kader, was für mich nie der Fall ist.

Nimm die Spieler der letzten Saison, die geblieben sind. Stell Dir vor, sie würden diese Saison weiter so performen. Dann wären wir ganz vorne.

[Nakuru]

 ich kenne das private Umfeld von Lichtstener. Es ist sehr gut. Sicher eine wichtige Voraussetzung, wenn man im Leben Erfolg haben will.

[Konter]

Dass dich ein derart undifferenzierter, offensichtlich rein polemischer Beitrag derart triggert, dass du so ausführlich darauf antwortest, erstaunt mich. Der letzte Satz hätte gereicht. I can handle it. 
Wie wir alle hoffe ich, dass es mit ihm klappt.

Nun gut, du beginnst deinen Post mit "Deutliche Sprache und inhaltich auf den Punkt", da kann man schon davon ausgehen, dass du diesen Post zumindest halbwegs ernst meinst.

[Basilou]

Vielleicht braucht Kevin auch nur gutes Zureden in Tsüritüüütsch. Somit haben wir mit SL den richtigen Mann...

Immerhin hat er mal Serie A gespielt und könnte es ja. Verstehe ehrlich gesagt nicht wieso der im besten Alter so performt. 
Gilt im übrigen auch für viele andere Spieler aktuell... 

Er ist als Adligenswiler ja alles andere als ein Zürcher.

Also in erster Linie ist Lichtsteiner ein Hopper 
 

Weil er 5 Jahre dort gespielt hat? Dann wäre er aber eher ein Turiner.

Aber er stammt nun mal aus Adligenswil und sein Vater hat den dortigen Fussballclub gegründet.

[Usswärtsfahrer]

Lache isch nit so sy Ding

Dr Spruch mit dr Wohnig hani glatt gfunde - v.a. welr dr Journi halb usem Konzept brocht het

[footbâle]

Dass dich ein derart undifferenzierter, offensichtlich rein polemischer Beitrag derart triggert, dass du so ausführlich darauf antwortest, erstaunt mich. Der letzte Satz hätte gereicht. I can handle it. 
Wie wir alle hoffe ich, dass es mit ihm klappt.

Nun gut, du beginnst deinen Post mit "Deutliche Sprache und inhaltich auf den Punkt", da kann man schon davon ausgehen, dass du diesen Post zumindest halbwegs ernst meinst.

Lieber Konter, ich würde es so nennen: Mit einer Provokation auf einen provokativen Entscheid reagiert. Denn eines kann ich dir sagen: Wenn zum Saisonbeginn jemand gesagt hätte, dass wir im Januar einen Trainerlehrling aus einer Amateurliga zum Chefcoach machen, wäre der geteert und gefedert worden. Oder im besten Fall hart ausgelacht. So im Sinne von: "Denkst du, dass DD und DS völlig verblödet sind?" 
Mit diesem Entscheid hat man sich maximal exponiert. Und das wird den Verantwortlichen auch klar sein. Dann kann es fallweise auch mal Spott und Häme absetzen. Aber wir schauen jetzt mal, wie sich das anlässt. Das Projekt startet am Donnerstag.
 

[imoht_1893]

Kann er eigentlich französisch? Deutsch und Italienisch sollte er ja fliessend sprechen können. Französisch wäre für unsere Mannschaft schon noch elementar um gewisse Konzepte gut zu erklären.

[gifty]

Kann er eigentlich französisch? Deutsch und Italienisch sollte er ja fliessend sprechen können. Französisch wäre für unsere Mannschaft schon noch elementar um gewisse Konzepte gut zu erklären.

Ja, das meinte ich. Nach drei Jahren in Lille dürfte sein Fussball-Französisch ohnehin sitzen. 
 

[schnischnaschneider]

An der PK wurde klar: Stucki&DD sehen in SL schon sehr lange einen zukünftigen Cheftrainer des FCB.

Meine Theorie dazu: sie wussten, dass er dies spätestens 2027 (nach einem Jahr u21) werden muss, sonst ist das Risiko zu gross, dass ein anderer Verein ihn holt. Das wollten sie vermeiden, weil sie wirklich sehr viel von ihm halten.
Der Plan war 2 Jahre (Vertragsdauer) mit Ludo und dann SL. Deswegen ist man auch mit Ludo in die Winterpause. Man wollte am langfristigen Masterplan festhalten und hoffte, dass Ludo das Ruder irgendwie rumreissen kann. Sie wussten auch, dass es zwischen Ludo&SL keinen Trainer mehr dazwischen verträgt, sonst werden es zu viele Trainerwechsel und zusätzlich dürfte es nicht einfach sein einen (guten) Trainer zu finden, der für nur 1.5 Jahre unterschreibt.
Nach dem Salzburg-Spiel war ihnen klar, dass sie nicht noch 1.5 Jahre an Ludo festhalten können. Selbst wenn sich die Resultate kurzfristig wieder verbessern, die Art&Weise ist zu schlecht, damit lässt sich nicht über 1.5 Jahre Erfolg haben.
Also mussten sie ihren Masterplan beschleunigen und SL direkt installieren.

Gegenüber Ludo (& auch Lupo) hat man nie mit offenen Karten gespielt, weil sie von Anfang an nur „ad interim“ vor Lichtsteiner waren. Ist nicht die feine Art. Ist aber halt leider auch das Bussinnes. Pipi war zu oft zu fein und wurde regelrecht gefressen.

[nobilissa]

Es wurde LICHT.
Manche bleiben verSTEINERt

Aber allgemein schon etwas weniger Schnappatmung imThread als gestern

[_droide]

Mit Lichtsteiner steigt die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass Sommer und Xhaka zum FCB kommen

https://www.bluewin.ch/de/sport/super-l ... 69788.html

[nobilissa]

Mit Lichtsteiner steigt die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass Sommer und Xhaka zum FCB kommen
https://www.bluewin.ch/de/sport/super-l ... 69788.html

Eine augesprochen nette Vorstellung.

[Stinson86]

Ein spannendes menschliches Phänomen, das man auch jeweils live im Stadion mitverfolgen kann: Der Pesimist. Verlieren wir, hat ers ja geahnt. Gewinnen wir, jubelt er siegestrunken als hätte ers nie angezweifelt. Zumindest verspüre ich wieder eine grosse Freude und Neugier für Donnerstag. Bin gespannt, was er aus der Mannschaft rausholen kann. Das Kader hat definitiv Potential, das haben wir bei der Siegesserie in der Rückrunde gesehen. Bin auch fest davon überzegt, dass wir insbesondere von den neuen Flügelspielern mit einem klareren Spielkonzept mehr positiven Beitrag sehen werden. Was denkt ihr welche Spieler er deutlich besser machen wird?

[NaSrI]

Das ganze gibt mir ein wenig Christian Gross vibes. Auch vom Typ her..

[Usswärtsfahrer]

Kann er eigentlich französisch? Deutsch und Italienisch sollte er ja fliessend sprechen können. Französisch wäre für unsere Mannschaft schon noch elementar um gewisse Konzepte gut zu erklären.

Ja, das meinte ich. Nach drei Jahren in Lille dürfte sein Fussball-Französisch ohnehin sitzen. 
 

Ja, meinte ich auch. Glaube mich - sehr vage - an ein Interview von ihm beim Wechsel zu Arsenal zu erinnern, als er sagte, dass er Wert auf Sprachkenntnisse des Arbeitgeberlandes lege. Finde nichts mehr dazu. Aber nach 3 Jahren Ligue 1 wird er das eh können, gerade weil Französisch auch nahe liegt als Deutschschweizer.

[fcbblog.ch]

Ein kurzer Artikel über Coverciano, die italienische Elite-Trainerschmiede an der auch Lichti sich nun noch den letzten Schliff abholen will

On the outskirts of Florence, near the foot of the beautiful Fiesole hills, there is a regular assembly of several aspiring minds. Every year, these aspiring coaches get together at the Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano in the hope of passing their UEFA Pro License, or Il Master, as it is proudly known in these parts.

It is the highest certification one can receive here, and for Italians hoping to break into management in either of the country’s top two tiers, going through this rigorous, mind-testing process is mandatory. Many of the great names in Italian coaching history have walked through these halls, and when many of them left, they enjoyed unprecedented success.

Italian managers are based all over Europe. In the recently-concluded season, 19 Serie A clubs employed homegrown managers – the most in any of Europe’s top five leagues. Spain’s top-flight was the next best, with 18 clubs employing Spanish managers, with the other two opting for Argentines. Ligue 1 only had six non-French coaches, while the Bundesliga started with more German managers than it ended with. The Premier League, though, only had five English managers.

It’s clear why so many clubs prefer having an Italian in charge of their team. Over the last few years, calcio’s coaches have enjoyed plenty of success at home and abroad. In England, Roberto Mancini, Claudio Ranieri and Antonio Conte won the Premier League – in 2012, 2016 and 2017 – with Conte going on to add the FA Cup in 2018. This year, Maurizio Sarri guided an underwhelming Chelsea team to Europa League success. In France, Spain and Germany, Carlo Ancelotti has enjoyed domestic and continental success, winning two league titles, two domestic cups and a Champions League along the way.

On the peninsula, Massimiliano Allegri took Juventus to new levels, winning five league titles, four Coppa Italia and leading his team to two Champions League finals. Other success stories have come in the form of Simone Inzaghi – a quickfire and, at the time, derided replacement for Marcelo Bielsa at Lazio – who, in two seasons, nearly led his club to a return to the Champions League and won the Coppa Italia. Gian Piero Gasperini led Atalanta to the Champions League last season on a tight budget, while Marco Giampaolo impressed at Sampdoria, paving the way for a move to AC Milan.

Aside from their nationality, all these coaches have one thing in common: they have all been schooled at Coverciano. Traditionally famous for being the training base for the national team, it is here that the country’s players from all age groups come together for international duty, but also where coaches are primed ahead of their careers.



Read | Arrigo Sacchi: the greatest nobody of all time

The stunning architecture of the venue is fitting relative to its locale. Many of the graduates that go through the course are former professional players and the most recent crop, who took the course last July, included the likes of World Cup winners Andrea Pirlo and Alberto Gilardino, former Napoli man Paolo Cannavaro and Florence’s favourite son, Gabriel Batistuta.

The venue has a long history, dating all the way back to 1957. Luigi Ridolfi, a name synonymous with sport, was the co-founder of the facility, with the idea of creating something unique in Italy. Coming from one of the wealthiest families in Italy, Ridolfi had an elongated history with athletics. Prior to his Coverciano venture, he founded Fiorentina in 1926 and the Giglio Rosso Athletics Society a year later. He was also the president of the Italian Athletics Federation for 16 years between 1926 and 1942, while he held the same post at the Italian Football Federation for a year in 1942.

Before all of his sporting ventures, however, he was part of the Italian army during the First World War, obtaining medals for military valour, before being promoted to second lieutenant at the end of the war. An accomplished individual, he held many honours domestically and internationally, with his most popular involving the Olympics and IAAF.

Coverciano’s founding partner was Dante Berreti, who was popular in Florence and later the later held the role of vice-president at the Italian Football Federation. Together, Ridolfi and Berreti had a shared objective: bring coaches from different areas, backgrounds and beliefs together to share ideas and make it a hotbed for innovative thinking.

For that to succeed, the centre, in its formative years, wasn’t solely restricted to football, something you’re reminded of when walking past a swimming pool and tennis courts to reach the first grass pitch.

For the aspiring coaches that step through these halls, there are two facets to the Coverciano test. In the first, they spend a month travelling to and from the venue. For four days a week in the gentle warmth of the region, they must work hard and study, forming their methods, fine-tuning their unique ideologies and proving themselves worthy of passing a rigorous coaching exam. Then, they must go through the oral exams, conducted by the director of the managers’ school and his team. The prospective manager is tested on various topics ranging from in-game tactics to communication to man-management.



Read | How Maurizio Sarri forged his philosophy during three entertaining Empoli years

The most insightful part is the thesis each manager needs to present. This must be informative and exclusive and can be done on any football-related subject of the manager’s choosing. Few other football institutions anywhere in the world require a thesis of this kind – at least in such depth – which helps make Coverciano such a distinctive establishment. In the oral exam, the manager must explain and defend their thesis, suggesting what makes theirs so valuable and how it can be useful in the modern and help shape the future.

Renzo Ulivieri is the director of the managers’ school and is the man behind the tests. The 78-year-old is a former Napoli and Parma manager, and when talking to Rory Smith of the New York Times, he explained some of the Coverciano ways. He claims that there are two phrases that are entirely prohibited in the manager’s exams. One is “in my day”; the other is “my football”.

They are seen as taboos in the centre and go against everything Ridolfi wanted this institution to be. Coverciano and its students are always looking to create; they’re looking to innovate, and for that, dated ideas are forbidden. The thinking must be about today and tomorrow, and not what worked yesterday.

When talking to Paolo Bandini for Bleacher Report, Ulivieri stressed the need for a constant desire for creativity; for that, this literal school of coaching that educates ambitious managers surprisingly doesn’t have any books: “The coaches who come to study on our courses do not receive any books. What’s the point? If I were to write a book, that could take me two years. So by the time I give it to you, it’s already two years old. It’s out of date.”

He continues: “You need to renew certain core principles about football, which are very old, and which always remain. But then you need to start over from zero, because, again, if I were to teach the football that my coaches taught me, that’s 50 years out of date. What I actually need to teach these guys is how football will be in ten years’ time. I need to predict the future.”

Ulivieri himself went through the ranks at Coverciano and had a journeyman career within Italy. In total, he had 22 managerial stints across a 42-year career that included three separate spells at Bologna over two decades. Having gone through the full range as a manager, including relegations, handling superstars, disputes, mid-table obscurity and managing across the various tiers in the Italian football spectrum, few would argue that there are worthier candidates for the post. He’s also affable, intelligent and passionate.



Read | Gian Piero Gasperini: the mastermind who’s turned Atalanta into a bastion of young talent and attacking prowess

He also gets involved in the training, educating himself along the way. He’s unafraid to speak his mind to the young coaches and often works with the girls’ teams. Having been at the helm for nearly a decade, he has seen many a champion pass through and, looking at his track record, will surely be seeing a lot more in the future.

The coach’s thesis is one of the most interesting aspects of Coverciano. When Antonio Conte graduated in 2006, his thesis was titled “Considerations on the 4-3-1-2 and the didactic use of video”, highlighting the pros and cons of the 4-3-1-2 formation, defensive and attacking setups, transitions and how a team should operate with and without the ball.

Conte describes several in-game situations and considers non-playing factors such as psychology and the league table, making vast use of diagrams. Known to be obsessed with detail, this 38-page dissertation is the perfect representation of his methodology.

Go further back in time and you can see Luciano Spalletti’s thesis, titled “The 3-5-2 gaming system”, which, as suggested by its name, is a breakdown of the famous formation. This explains why the 3-5-2 is such an important formation in the modern game, gifting a few insights on the right exercises and drills used to implement it successfully, and even contains a section with various terminology with relation to the style.

Later in his career, Spalletti would successfully use the 3-5-2, leading him to successes in Rome, league wins in Russia with Zenit Saint Petersburg, before taking Inter back to the Champions League after several years away.

Beyond these two examples, there are also other interesting theses. Carlo Ancelotti’s 1997 writing was titled “The Future of Football: More Dynamism”, highlighting the changes the sport would see in the future and containing charts and graphs that supported how increased activity on and off the pitch would alter the game in the future. Then there’s Roberto Mancini’s 2001 study – “Il Trequartista” – examining the role and importance of the attacking midfielder. Over the course of his career, especially at Manchester City, Mancini has made good use of creative players.

Maurizio Sarri, meanwhile, gave an early indication of his meticulous planning and the importance of training sessions. In his thesis “The weekly preparation for the match”, he wrote: “In a typical week there are seven training sessions. Two have physical targets. Two are to correct mistakes from the previous match, one for the whole team, the second for individual departments (defence, midfield, attack).”



Read | Fabio Capello and the iconic AC Milan years

Going further back in time, there’s the famous study of the zonal marking system by the great Fabio Capello, compiled in 1984. The theses are available to read and take inspiration from for the upcoming coaches, proving to be an adequate replacement for the lack of books. It could be said that learning from the teachings of the aforementioned names is enough to educate the next generation and motivate them in some way to produce something of their own.

Apart from the education of future coaches, the centre also hosts all age groups of the national teams for both men and women. Furthermore, this Università del Calcio also assists in the training of prospective referees, sporting directors and physiotherapists, amongst other football-related professions. The state-of-the-art venue provides room for relaxation as well. Beyond from the football pitches, there are tennis courts, a swimming pool, auditoriums for seminars, meeting halls for the suits of the FIGC, a library consisting of all the great theses, and the offices of the heads of Italian football.

The most intriguing, however, is the Museo del Calcio, opened in 2000 and consisting of six main rooms. One room keeps hold of the two World Cups won in the 1930s as well as original kits of several of its players. The second room consists memorabilia of some of the game’s legends, including Diego Maradona and Pelé. The third room celebrates Italy and provides information on how the game and its equipment has changed overtime. The fourth, fifth and sixth rooms delve into their more recent glories: the 1968 European Championship, the 1982 and 2006 World Cups, and some of their close calls in 1994 and 2000. This is a glittering venue that celebrates football above all else, protecting the past while looking to the future.

Based in the most scenic of locations, Coverciano has a strong history of polishing some of the finest Italian minds, With the likes of Conte and Sarri taking on new roles, all eyes in Coverciano will be on how their graduates do.

Despite that, some criticism has been aimed at the centre due to the failures of Carlo Ancelotti at Bayern Munich, Roberto Mancini at Inter and, most significantly, Gian Piero Ventura’s Italian botch-fest, which resulted in the country’s failure to qualify for the World Cup in 2018 – but many are still adamant that the methods are right.

Having produced World Cup, Champions League winners and domestic league winners ranging from England to Germany and France to Russia, there is little reason to doubt this institution of winners. It’s surely only a matter of time before a new generation of Italian coaches come to the fore and take calcio to new levels once again.

[adashelbygains]

Ein kurzer Artikel über Coverciano, die italienische Elite-Trainerschmiede an der auch Lichti sich nun noch den letzten Schliff abholen will

On the outskirts of Florence, near the foot of the beautiful Fiesole hills, there is a regular assembly of several aspiring minds. Every year, these aspiring coaches get together at the Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano in the hope of passing their UEFA Pro License, or Il Master, as it is proudly known in these parts.

It is the highest certification one can receive here, and for Italians hoping to break into management in either of the country’s top two tiers, going through this rigorous, mind-testing process is mandatory. Many of the great names in Italian coaching history have walked through these halls, and when many of them left, they enjoyed unprecedented success.

Italian managers are based all over Europe. In the recently-concluded season, 19 Serie A clubs employed homegrown managers – the most in any of Europe’s top five leagues. Spain’s top-flight was the next best, with 18 clubs employing Spanish managers, with the other two opting for Argentines. Ligue 1 only had six non-French coaches, while the Bundesliga started with more German managers than it ended with. The Premier League, though, only had five English managers.

It’s clear why so many clubs prefer having an Italian in charge of their team. Over the last few years, calcio’s coaches have enjoyed plenty of success at home and abroad. In England, Roberto Mancini, Claudio Ranieri and Antonio Conte won the Premier League – in 2012, 2016 and 2017 – with Conte going on to add the FA Cup in 2018. This year, Maurizio Sarri guided an underwhelming Chelsea team to Europa League success. In France, Spain and Germany, Carlo Ancelotti has enjoyed domestic and continental success, winning two league titles, two domestic cups and a Champions League along the way.

On the peninsula, Massimiliano Allegri took Juventus to new levels, winning five league titles, four Coppa Italia and leading his team to two Champions League finals. Other success stories have come in the form of Simone Inzaghi – a quickfire and, at the time, derided replacement for Marcelo Bielsa at Lazio – who, in two seasons, nearly led his club to a return to the Champions League and won the Coppa Italia. Gian Piero Gasperini led Atalanta to the Champions League last season on a tight budget, while Marco Giampaolo impressed at Sampdoria, paving the way for a move to AC Milan.

Aside from their nationality, all these coaches have one thing in common: they have all been schooled at Coverciano. Traditionally famous for being the training base for the national team, it is here that the country’s players from all age groups come together for international duty, but also where coaches are primed ahead of their careers.



Read | Arrigo Sacchi: the greatest nobody of all time

The stunning architecture of the venue is fitting relative to its locale. Many of the graduates that go through the course are former professional players and the most recent crop, who took the course last July, included the likes of World Cup winners Andrea Pirlo and Alberto Gilardino, former Napoli man Paolo Cannavaro and Florence’s favourite son, Gabriel Batistuta.

The venue has a long history, dating all the way back to 1957. Luigi Ridolfi, a name synonymous with sport, was the co-founder of the facility, with the idea of creating something unique in Italy. Coming from one of the wealthiest families in Italy, Ridolfi had an elongated history with athletics. Prior to his Coverciano venture, he founded Fiorentina in 1926 and the Giglio Rosso Athletics Society a year later. He was also the president of the Italian Athletics Federation for 16 years between 1926 and 1942, while he held the same post at the Italian Football Federation for a year in 1942.

Before all of his sporting ventures, however, he was part of the Italian army during the First World War, obtaining medals for military valour, before being promoted to second lieutenant at the end of the war. An accomplished individual, he held many honours domestically and internationally, with his most popular involving the Olympics and IAAF.

Coverciano’s founding partner was Dante Berreti, who was popular in Florence and later the later held the role of vice-president at the Italian Football Federation. Together, Ridolfi and Berreti had a shared objective: bring coaches from different areas, backgrounds and beliefs together to share ideas and make it a hotbed for innovative thinking.

For that to succeed, the centre, in its formative years, wasn’t solely restricted to football, something you’re reminded of when walking past a swimming pool and tennis courts to reach the first grass pitch.

For the aspiring coaches that step through these halls, there are two facets to the Coverciano test. In the first, they spend a month travelling to and from the venue. For four days a week in the gentle warmth of the region, they must work hard and study, forming their methods, fine-tuning their unique ideologies and proving themselves worthy of passing a rigorous coaching exam. Then, they must go through the oral exams, conducted by the director of the managers’ school and his team. The prospective manager is tested on various topics ranging from in-game tactics to communication to man-management.



Read | How Maurizio Sarri forged his philosophy during three entertaining Empoli years

The most insightful part is the thesis each manager needs to present. This must be informative and exclusive and can be done on any football-related subject of the manager’s choosing. Few other football institutions anywhere in the world require a thesis of this kind – at least in such depth – which helps make Coverciano such a distinctive establishment. In the oral exam, the manager must explain and defend their thesis, suggesting what makes theirs so valuable and how it can be useful in the modern and help shape the future.

Renzo Ulivieri is the director of the managers’ school and is the man behind the tests. The 78-year-old is a former Napoli and Parma manager, and when talking to Rory Smith of the New York Times, he explained some of the Coverciano ways. He claims that there are two phrases that are entirely prohibited in the manager’s exams. One is “in my day”; the other is “my football”.

They are seen as taboos in the centre and go against everything Ridolfi wanted this institution to be. Coverciano and its students are always looking to create; they’re looking to innovate, and for that, dated ideas are forbidden. The thinking must be about today and tomorrow, and not what worked yesterday.

When talking to Paolo Bandini for Bleacher Report, Ulivieri stressed the need for a constant desire for creativity; for that, this literal school of coaching that educates ambitious managers surprisingly doesn’t have any books: “The coaches who come to study on our courses do not receive any books. What’s the point? If I were to write a book, that could take me two years. So by the time I give it to you, it’s already two years old. It’s out of date.”

He continues: “You need to renew certain core principles about football, which are very old, and which always remain. But then you need to start over from zero, because, again, if I were to teach the football that my coaches taught me, that’s 50 years out of date. What I actually need to teach these guys is how football will be in ten years’ time. I need to predict the future.”

Ulivieri himself went through the ranks at Coverciano and had a journeyman career within Italy. In total, he had 22 managerial stints across a 42-year career that included three separate spells at Bologna over two decades. Having gone through the full range as a manager, including relegations, handling superstars, disputes, mid-table obscurity and managing across the various tiers in the Italian football spectrum, few would argue that there are worthier candidates for the post. He’s also affable, intelligent and passionate.



Read | Gian Piero Gasperini: the mastermind who’s turned Atalanta into a bastion of young talent and attacking prowess

He also gets involved in the training, educating himself along the way. He’s unafraid to speak his mind to the young coaches and often works with the girls’ teams. Having been at the helm for nearly a decade, he has seen many a champion pass through and, looking at his track record, will surely be seeing a lot more in the future.

The coach’s thesis is one of the most interesting aspects of Coverciano. When Antonio Conte graduated in 2006, his thesis was titled “Considerations on the 4-3-1-2 and the didactic use of video”, highlighting the pros and cons of the 4-3-1-2 formation, defensive and attacking setups, transitions and how a team should operate with and without the ball.

Conte describes several in-game situations and considers non-playing factors such as psychology and the league table, making vast use of diagrams. Known to be obsessed with detail, this 38-page dissertation is the perfect representation of his methodology.

Go further back in time and you can see Luciano Spalletti’s thesis, titled “The 3-5-2 gaming system”, which, as suggested by its name, is a breakdown of the famous formation. This explains why the 3-5-2 is such an important formation in the modern game, gifting a few insights on the right exercises and drills used to implement it successfully, and even contains a section with various terminology with relation to the style.

Later in his career, Spalletti would successfully use the 3-5-2, leading him to successes in Rome, league wins in Russia with Zenit Saint Petersburg, before taking Inter back to the Champions League after several years away.

Beyond these two examples, there are also other interesting theses. Carlo Ancelotti’s 1997 writing was titled “The Future of Football: More Dynamism”, highlighting the changes the sport would see in the future and containing charts and graphs that supported how increased activity on and off the pitch would alter the game in the future. Then there’s Roberto Mancini’s 2001 study – “Il Trequartista” – examining the role and importance of the attacking midfielder. Over the course of his career, especially at Manchester City, Mancini has made good use of creative players.

Maurizio Sarri, meanwhile, gave an early indication of his meticulous planning and the importance of training sessions. In his thesis “The weekly preparation for the match”, he wrote: “In a typical week there are seven training sessions. Two have physical targets. Two are to correct mistakes from the previous match, one for the whole team, the second for individual departments (defence, midfield, attack).”



Read | Fabio Capello and the iconic AC Milan years

Going further back in time, there’s the famous study of the zonal marking system by the great Fabio Capello, compiled in 1984. The theses are available to read and take inspiration from for the upcoming coaches, proving to be an adequate replacement for the lack of books. It could be said that learning from the teachings of the aforementioned names is enough to educate the next generation and motivate them in some way to produce something of their own.

Apart from the education of future coaches, the centre also hosts all age groups of the national teams for both men and women. Furthermore, this Università del Calcio also assists in the training of prospective referees, sporting directors and physiotherapists, amongst other football-related professions. The state-of-the-art venue provides room for relaxation as well. Beyond from the football pitches, there are tennis courts, a swimming pool, auditoriums for seminars, meeting halls for the suits of the FIGC, a library consisting of all the great theses, and the offices of the heads of Italian football.

The most intriguing, however, is the Museo del Calcio, opened in 2000 and consisting of six main rooms. One room keeps hold of the two World Cups won in the 1930s as well as original kits of several of its players. The second room consists memorabilia of some of the game’s legends, including Diego Maradona and Pelé. The third room celebrates Italy and provides information on how the game and its equipment has changed overtime. The fourth, fifth and sixth rooms delve into their more recent glories: the 1968 European Championship, the 1982 and 2006 World Cups, and some of their close calls in 1994 and 2000. This is a glittering venue that celebrates football above all else, protecting the past while looking to the future.

Based in the most scenic of locations, Coverciano has a strong history of polishing some of the finest Italian minds, With the likes of Conte and Sarri taking on new roles, all eyes in Coverciano will be on how their graduates do.

Despite that, some criticism has been aimed at the centre due to the failures of Carlo Ancelotti at Bayern Munich, Roberto Mancini at Inter and, most significantly, Gian Piero Ventura’s Italian botch-fest, which resulted in the country’s failure to qualify for the World Cup in 2018 – but many are still adamant that the methods are right.

Having produced World Cup, Champions League winners and domestic league winners ranging from England to Germany and France to Russia, there is little reason to doubt this institution of winners. It’s surely only a matter of time before a new generation of Italian coaches come to the fore and take calcio to new levels once again.

danke für diesen kurzen artikel

[Keule]

Auch von mir; beide eier gekrault; das war äusserst kompakt und informativ

[platzwart]

Was denkt ihr welche Spieler er deutlich besser machen wird?

Die Überzähligen auf der Tribüne…..

[Gobbi]

Was denkt ihr welche Spieler er deutlich besser machen wird?

Die Überzähligen auf der Tribüne…..

Agbonifo und Ajeti

[scharteflue]

Etwas sacken lassen, PK geschaut Ohne es begründen zu können: kommt gut.
 

[MichaelMason]

Lache isch nit so sy Ding

Dr Spruch mit dr Wohnig hani glatt gfunde - v.a. welr dr Journi halb usem Konzept brocht het

Me too

Und ein anderer Deppenjourni hat diesen Spruch gleich negativ als aggressiv ausgelegt.

[Käppelijoch]

So lange er in der Freien einkauft, ist ja alles OK.

[Cuore Matto]

Ganz ehrlich: Da hätte man auch Taulant Xhaka an den Rand stellen können.

Falls das ernst gemeint ist: NEIN!
SL wirkt fokussiert und wird kein Clown an der Linie sein.

[Cuore Matto]

hat SL schon jemanden im nachwuchs trainiert der jetzt bei uns im kader ist oder nahe an der 1. mannschaft? wäre noch spannend zu wissen.

Gemäss weltfussball.at nicht:

U15 Saison 22/23: https://www.weltfussball.at/teams/te141 ... 023/kader/
U16 Saison 23/24: https://www.weltfussball.at/teams/te136 ... 024/kader/


 

Die Meisten dieser Spieler sind mittlerweile in der U19 (amtierender Meister), Einige waren mit der U17-Nati an der WM letzten Herbst.

[Gobbi]

hat SL schon jemanden im nachwuchs trainiert der jetzt bei uns im kader ist oder nahe an der 1. mannschaft? wäre noch spannend zu wissen.

Gemäss weltfussball.at nicht:

U15 Saison 22/23: https://www.weltfussball.at/teams/te141 ... 023/kader/
U16 Saison 23/24: https://www.weltfussball.at/teams/te136 ... 024/kader/


 

Die Meisten dieser Spieler sind mittlerweile in der U19 (amtierender Meister), Einige waren mit der U17-Nati an der WM letzten Herbst.

Vielleicht ist ja dann das Stürmerproblem bald gelöst Giacomo Koloto hat er da trainiert

[maradoo]

Ganz ehrlich: Da hätte man auch Taulant Xhaka an den Rand stellen können.

Falls das ernst gemeint ist: NEIN!
SL wirkt fokussiert und wird kein Clown an der Linie sein.

Ist TX ein Clown an dr Linie?
 

[Leon34]

Ganz ehrlich: Da hätte man auch Taulant Xhaka an den Rand stellen können.

Falls das ernst gemeint ist: NEIN!
SL wirkt fokussiert und wird kein Clown an der Linie sein.

Ist TX ein Clown an dr Linie?

Ja.
 

[JackR]

Ja. 

Hast du ihn denn mal als Trainer gesehen oder sind das einfach Vorurteile, dass du das so beurteilst?

[Flachzange1981]

Kann er eigentlich französisch? Deutsch und Italienisch sollte er ja fliessend sprechen können. Französisch wäre für unsere Mannschaft schon noch elementar um gewisse Konzepte gut zu erklären.

Ja, das meinte ich. Nach drei Jahren in Lille dürfte sein Fussball-Französisch ohnehin sitzen. 

Ja, meinte ich auch. Glaube mich - sehr vage - an ein Interview von ihm beim Wechsel zu Arsenal zu erinnern, als er sagte, dass er Wert auf Sprachkenntnisse des Arbeitgeberlandes lege. Finde nichts mehr dazu. Aber nach 3 Jahren Ligue 1 wird er das eh können, gerade weil Französisch auch nahe liegt als Deutschschweizer.

Nach der PK gestern gab er ein Interview für Bluesport.fr auf französisch. Er kann also DE/IT/FR und EN ohne Probleme.