It is no coincidence that Udinese is 28th consecutive year in Serie A, a record that it shares only with the two Milanese and the two Roman ones.
The secret of the Pozzo family is the sustainability of investments.
This is how it went with the Dacia Arena, a gem admired by all of Europe, and it went the same way with the signing of Mr. Andrea Sottil, the revelation technician of this start of the season, who looks down on his most famous colleagues. Allegri and Sarri, as well as Mourinho and Simone Inzaghi, whose scalp he has already taken home, thanks to two overwhelming victories.
Only Pioli beat him: but it was early August and he was playing at the home of the Italian champions, for the first time with the Scudetto on his chest.
And anyway now he is chasing him too.
Yet there should have been no match with big colleagues, nor as experience - the coach of Venaria Reale is making his debut in Serie A at 48, after a ten-year career between Serie D and C - nor as a salary.
The top technicians of the category earn several million a year, he was hired with about 300 thousand euros.
And we must deserve reconfirmation.
Because the Pozzo family, when they snatched him from Ascoli, proposed a one-year contract.
With renewal clause for the benefit of the company.
Which at this point will be exercised well before the February deadline.
The secret of success?
A total application.
And also the belief that one never gets beaten.
Attitude that made him prefer in the summer casting, when Cioffi refused the renewal preferring to marry in Verona.
"We knew him for the four years he spent in Udine as a player, we knew the characteristics of a very bad person, a great fighter. We also knew his propensity for leadership in the locker room", explained the director of the technical area, Pierpaolo Marino, who ruled out that in Friuli one thinks of the Scudetto, in the style of the Leicester miracle.
"Udinese at the top also surprises us".
And, again: "we want to analyze match by match and understand with great humility, but also a desire to amaze, where this team can go. Not even returning to Europe is a seasonal goal: we must not create pressure for the team and the whole environment" .
In reality, of the top teams, Udinese is the only one who has already played with four of the "seven sisters".
