They should set a good example, but sometimes they go down in the collective memory for having lost their minds.
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The heavy gesture of the Lecce coach, Roberto D'Aversa, towards the Verona striker Thomas Henry, is the latest in a series of many precedents;
some even famous, others less remembered but even more surprising.
It's difficult to understand what goes on in a coach's head, even beyond the competitive trance, if even an icon like Enzo Bearzot fell when he was hit by a protesting fan.
>ANSA-BOX/From Tom Rosati to Baldini, if the coach loses his mind
In 1983 the episode that for the first time saw a coach participate in a brawl on the pitch.
It's Tom Rosati: the Pescara coach, in the match against Como to stay in Serie B, left the bench to enter the green surface, approached one of his players, Vittorio Cozzella, 'guilty' of having gotten himself sent off at 2- 0 ahead, and gave him two slaps.
On the other hand, there was another case shortly before, sensational for the protagonist even before the dynamics: Enzo Bearzot, the 'Old Man' of the most loved national team of all time, symbol of ethics applied to football, lost his mind in the eve of the departure for the Italian expedition that won the World Cup in Spain.
Italy was completing their preparations in Rome in a climate of general protest, a fan began to insult the elderly coach by calling him a "fool, ape and bastard" for having excluded Beccalossi from the squad.
Bearzot lost his mind and slapped her in public.
>ANSA-BOX/From Tom Rosati to Baldini, if the coach loses his mind
The episode most similar, in terms of dynamics, to the D'Aversa case refers to the Lucchese coach, Giancarlo Favarin, who in 2019 in Serie C headbutted an opponent: he was stopped until the end of the season.
The heaviest sanction dates back to 20 years ago: the then Cesena coach Fabrizio Castori took part in the brawl at the end of the match against Lumezzane in Serie C. Castori was given a three-year ban, later reduced to two.
>ANSA-BOX/From Tom Rosati to Baldini, if the coach loses his mind
More iconic is the kick to the butt that Silvio Baldini, when he sat on the Catania bench in 2007, gave to Parma coach Domenico Di Carlo.
>ANSA-BOX/From Tom Rosati to Baldini, if the coach loses his mind
The images of the attack by Delio Rossi, then in charge of Fiorentina, on one of his players Adem Ljajic in 2012 also went around the world: the coach slapped him because the latter had insulted him as he returned to the bench.
Rossi was banned for three months.
>ANSA-BOX/From Tom Rosati to Baldini, if the coach loses his mind
The exuberance of José Mourinho could not be missed in the gallery: then Real manager, in the final turmoil of the Spanish Super Cup with Barcelona in 2011 he approached Tito Vilanova, then Guardola's assistant, with absolute calm and stuck his finger from behind in one eye.
Matters of the head, in short, whether lost or hit.
>ANSA-BOX/From Tom Rosati to Baldini, if the coach loses his mind
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