LONDRA (INGHILTERRA) (ITALPRESS) – For now you enjoy a little rest but without exaggerating because in your work you always have to keep up. Archiviato il biennio di Napoli, Antonio Conte decided to detach the plug even if not entirely: the Salento technician studies, observes, takes notes. Because if the right call comes, he doesn’t want to get unprepared. “That of Naples has been a wonderful experience – he tells in a long interview to “The Athletic” – He demanded a lot of energy and was not easy. Having to go down to battle against Inter, Juve and Milan is not a walk to Naples, Rome or Lazio. I spent a lot of energy. Now I’m at a stage where I’m just watching. In quiet periods, when I don’t work, the good thing is that you can sit down and watch games, study new approaches and be even more calm and shiny while trying to adapt the developments of football to your ideas.”.
Conte sees a football “in continuous evolution and we have to keep up with the times. Everyone is braver today. In the past, if you faced City or Liverpool, the quality gap was huge and left them the initiative. That doesn’t happen anymore. There is a direction, there is a vision. Arteta is establishing the direction, just as Klopp and Guardiola did.”.
“In my opinion, the coach must be in the middle, it must be important. If you’re not happy, you exonerate. The coach must provide direction and vision and you cannot have two different visions, the club on one side and the coach on the other. If these two visions coincide and find the right balance, then progress,” says Count, who cites various examples.
“Look at the Como. Cesc has a voice in the matter. The Psg did not win the Champions with Mbappé, Messi and Neymar because there must be balance and chemistry. You can’t just think about putting together the best players in a team and waiting to win. That’s not how it works. Luis Enrique achieved great results, but also what the club did was fundamental: they supported the coach, which they had not done in previous years, they embraced that vision. In my opinion, Luis Enrique has done something extraordinary. He managed to make the Psg follow his direction.”.
Conte reveals that he would like to visit Barcelona to see how they work at youth level and does not exclude the hypothesis of returning to work in the current season “if it was worth it”.
Also in England, where the firepower on the market is higher than the rest of the world. “Today in England they use bazooka, while in all other places they still use a gun. But we also have to be careful how the money is spent. This is why we talked about the need to make the right evaluations, to have a vision, because you can also have money, but you have to spend it wisely.”.
However, the 57-year-old Salento coach has clear ideas about the kind of team he would like to train. “If you go to a club where history speaks on its own – a story made of trophies, championship titles and victories – you can honor that story in one way: having the ambition to bring back that club – if today it is not there – to fight for those goals. I know perfectly that every year he can win only one team, but I must bring in my heart – and instill in the heart of fans, my players and my leaders – that spark, that hope that makes you say: “Cook, we can win.” There are many clubs that have somehow lost sight of their history. I would like to go to one of these clubs, to shine that story and make it shine again – says Conte – Club where there is pressure, where, ultimately, you know perfectly that you don’t just go to participate, but to compete”.
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