LECCE (ITALPRESS) – “I was two years at home and I was never bored, it’s not like I wasn’t sleeping because I had to coach a team. My concern was making sure I was ready and prepared the moment the call came but I was preparing, studying, updating to be ready the moment a proposal came. But I lived it serenely.” Marco Giampaolo did not miss the bench but when Corvino’s call came he did not hesitate. Now, under his leadership, Lecce is trying to stay in Serie A, a mission that for the Salentini coach is more than within reach despite the difficulties. “The goal is to save themselves as soon as possible, the league is very hard and the competitors are fierce, the teams behind play well, the league is hard and very difficult and the goal is that because the fight is nice and tough – he emphasizes to “Storie di Serie A” on Radio TV Serie A with RDS – Lecce is a fairly young team and many players can take advantage of the fact that being young they can have different margins or ambitions. Some interesting little players are there, someone is more experienced, reliable and guarantees a consistently good level of performance, someone maybe one Sunday yes and the other a little less, however this is part of the growth process and good profiles are there.” One of them is Rafia. “He has a lot of qualities, one flaw he has and I’m working on it, that is that he holds the ball too much, he touches it 50 times and he could clean it up every now and then instead he messes himself up, he goes for the dribble, he struggles, then he loses it, once he loses it, once he doesn’t, all wasted work – Giampaolo emphasizes – Berisha has quality, he comes from the youth sector, then there is another young profile which is Helgason who has played little but has qualities, Krstovic is heavy and has strength.” Among the most interesting players is definitely Dorgu. “He is very young, he is a guy with great physical and technical qualities, still we need to understand what is his precise placement on the field, the most natural one. On his side he has age and can only improve. Baschirotto? He is always at the camp, even when there is a day off. He made it to Serie A because of his adherence to the principles of sacrifice. He has an extraordinary willingness to work, he is a fair and present captain, with whom I have a very good relationship, he is very important for this Lecce and almost decisive.” In today’s soccer “it is important to know how to adapt, it is important to recognize what the peculiarities and characteristics of your team are and also to make fewer problems for yourself, the less you know the better you are – Giamapolo laughs – But I am open to confrontation, it is stimulating when a player asks me why it is interesting and wants to understand, my job is to clarify a problem, I don’t want the players to nod their heads and then not have understood anything. I am open to dialogue and interview, my door is always open. The term “master?” Probably because of my characteristics, but I do not feel like a master, I am an organizer of teams, of collectives, which is not limited to the 11, but I widen the sphere to all the footballers I have always coached so that each one recognizes himself in a task, in a role, and I have never thought of an individual soccer or organization, like the one in Italy today.” A pupil of Galeone (“I had so much fun with him, it was an extraordinary experience, as well as a great coach, a great character”), in 2009 close to Juve (“the disappointment was so great”), coaching Milan “was a great opportunity, however then for so many circumstances and so many aspects it did not materialize, it did not have a positive outcome.” And in the future? “I will coach as long as I have and then when I don’t have any more I will go and coach the boys at my house and that is something I want to do and I will do,” he promises.- photo Ipa Agency -(ITALPRESS).
