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PSG-Atalanta: Gasperini, the coach who made Bergamo a benchmark

2020-08-11T08:13:34.502Z


In four years, the Italian coach has successfully developed goal-oriented game ideas at Atalanta and displayed a strong character.


Italy consecrated him Panchina d'Oro, best coach in 2018-2019. Pep Guardiola admires him. Gian Piero Gasperini, 62, Atalanta coach for four years, is the key man in trying to understand how the Dea (Editor's note: goddess) conquered the heights of Calcio and the European summits. First, there is a simple but immutable principle: move forward. In his flexible and evolving 3-4-3, the Piedmontese, former midfielder of Palermo or Pescara in the 1980s, is a fan of risk-taking and off-road pressing.

The Nerazzuri have come to complete the championship in third place with 98 goals scored, far ahead of their rivals. "It's very athletic, with a repetition of efforts, changes of speed," confides the former midfielder Sébastien Piocelle, who rubbed shoulders with him at Crotone fifteen years ago. He asks a lot of the players, who have to be very well prepared physically. "

“Gasperini is Il Caravaggio (Editor's note: Caravaggio, Italian painter of the 16th century) , launches Pietro Serina, specialist in Atalanta at Eco di Bergamo. In his work, he is a genius. In the field, he sees things before everyone else. He's always one step ahead and that's what makes him unique. »Even… special.

White nights and black anger

His wife Cristina, with whom he had two sons (Davide and Andrea), no longer worries about being alone in bed. The man spends sleepless nights in his living room taking notes on matches. He can also get angry if the gardener at the training center hasn't cut the grass to the right height. And he demands constant intensity from his troops. Not tyrannical, but demanding… “He's really behind the young players. Gueulard without being pejorative because he is a perfectionist, really meticulous. But he's a fair person, ”observes Piocelle.

“He has a big personality and he is capable of uttering sacred shouts,” says Adrien Tameze./Icon Sport / LaPresse / Massimo Paolone  

"With him, it's detail, rigor, competitiveness in all games, confirms Adrien Tameze, back in Nice after a six-month loan in Lombardy. He wants us to win, to be good and to have a good game all the time. It also works with the idea of ​​a group and not a team. Even if you don't play two or three games, you have to be prepared. You can enter at any time. He's been thinking about his tactics for years, he has it all in mind. I am learning and he is quite patient. With the others, he's been working this for a long time. He has a big personality and he is capable of uttering sacred shouts! "

In some ways, Gasperini is reminiscent of Marcelo Bielsa. Except that we do not necessarily see its “loco” side from the outside. "It's a bit like Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde," Pietro Serina sums up. There is the one at the edge of the pitch and the one outside the stadium. "

A talent scout

Trainer at heart - he spent nine years leading the youth of Juventus - the Bergamo coach is a builder. Not a reviewer. Man is more comfortable in disassembling the ego. His talent is to go find nuggets and shape them to shine in a collective. “He may be less comfortable putting the stars in the heat blue. He needs players to listen, ”sums up Piocelle.

“Last January, he brought in Sutalo (Editor's note: 20-year-old Croatian central defender) he had never seen, says Serina. After a week he assured me he was going to become a champion! Luis Muriel (Editor's note: 29, at the club since 2019) has spent his entire life as a second striker. After his first training here, Gasperini told him: If you listen to me, you play center-forward and you will score twenty goals per season. In the eleven years he has been playing, no one had had the idea. He has just finished the championship with 19 goals. "

"He would be able to train more upscale clubs"

So why did you wait until retirement age to finally expand your CV? Many believe that Atalanta, where calm and patience reign, was the only Italian club where the sixty-year-old alert, passed through Genoa, could succeed.

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“He would be able to train more upscale clubs but we would have to give him time or give him carte blanche to recruit according to his system, explains Piocelle. I would like to see him again at this level. "

Review, because in 2011 his stay on the bench of Inter had lasted barely 73 days, the time to concede four defeats in five games. In 2016, his lease in Bergamo started with five straight defeats ...

Source: leparis

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