He shot all the big names, he won about thirty trophies including 5 Champions League, made the bodies of the champions of the football machine: who is the golden ball of the preparers who started with the judo
The theorist of fatigue as a necessary condition for reaching any goal comes from Settimo Torinese and that place brings the discipline, the rigor, the awareness that the reward for the sacrifices made a moment, like glory. Antonino Pintus could reach Juve. He, from Settimo Torinese, urban belt of Turin, a pelvis of workers with Vista Fiat – Veneti, Sicilians, Sardinians as he is of origin – Borgo di Campagna who in a few years, in the decade of the sixties, has lived a unparalleled demographic accelerated in the industrial triangle of Northern Italy, is the beginning of the history of one of the best athletic preparatory today in the world, a 63 -year -old man – he is in September – Wherever he went to Italy and in Europe he made the fortune of the players and coaches with whom he worked, collecting cups – are now about thirty, including five Champions League (one with Lippi, two with Zidane and two with Ancelotti) – as indeed more than a top player. If there was a prize like the golden ball for athletic trainers, Antonio Pintus would have collected it.
from NASA
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A year ago the news was a sensation that had been contacted by NASA, the American government agency that deals with the space program and aerospace research. The headquarters is in Washington and in the films you can see them – engineers, mathematicians, IT and physical in shirt sleeves and the classic cup of boiling coffee at hand – glued with their eyes to the computer while they define the space missions that others – the astronauts – will go to do. Those of the NASA wanted him to confront the applications of his methods for athletic preparation – precisely – of the astronauts. Normal men who do things as superheroes, a bit like what happens for those players – from the Cristiano Ronaldo pulled in shiny like never before, to Lukaku rekindled up to the regenerated Modric – who were lucky enough to see the muscles from Pintus managed. Married to Hafiza, three children, Rachele and the twins Vittorio and Leonardo, an existential figure an all Turin reluctance, cross-country skiers (still ran the half marathons), athletics as a fixed nail in the years of the youth spent chasing the first (ISEF) of the four degrees (the second in motor sciences at the Claude-Bernard University of Lyon), a natural attitude.
The relationship with the players
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Pintus does not play being a friend of the players, it is. He has no protagonist crave, he works because his players are. He knows the secret of the muscles, as few governed the art of athletic management. At Real Madrid he made use of a “team” in the team, that is, three other preparators, each with specific skills. At twenty -four years old Pintus was already the athletic trainer of the Settimo team, amateur category and a patrol of thirty -year -olds to whom to give clear rules. Group dynamics learned them there. In Ventotto, he measured himself with the Akiyama company of Judo and after a year of activity – we are 1991 – he joined the staff of Juventus’ preparators. It was Trapattoni’s team, which later became Lippi in the most winning decade of his recent history. Pintus began to put Trophies on the bulletin board right in the Juventus of the 90s, with Lippi and Ventrone, worked on Chelsea – it was vialli who wanted it – passed through Udine and Palermo and Sunderland, went to Munich because it was his former “student” Deschamps, who then wanted to go to Olympique Marseille. He experienced in England with Zola at West Ham, a launching pad for the three -year gold lived with his friend Zidane at Real, he was decisive in facing the contest in the year of the Scudetto at Inter (2021) then he returned to Madrid to win again, this time with Ancelotti.
to the origins
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In the track of his path, a certain basic “Juventinity” is recognizable, since the many students who had in the decade of the 90s – Conte and Viallli, Deschamps and Zidane – sooner or later they wanted it by their side. If Florentino Perez with Pintus has a special relationship (he has always considered it decisive in the successes of the “blancos” and would like it coordinator of the athletic preparation of all the club’s teams), Luka Modric in recent years spoke of “Pintus method”, Jude Bellingham affectionately called him “el diablo”, because “during the training sessions he massacred me”. With players, Pintus creates that confidence that a coach – called to make divisive choices – cannot and must not have. Directs them, captures their fears, guess the margins of improvement. He said he gave Cristiano Ronaldo this small-big advice: “When you have to sprinkle not to look up, but at the bottom. So you push more with the lower limbs. Exactly as the athletic sprints do when they are at the starting blocks”. This is his strength: to open a horizon, to offer the footballer a possibility that he had not foreseen, correct it even when – it is the case of Cristiano – he could make himself strong of the champion status. In defining his field of action, Pintus repeatedly repeated: “Working with the ball is obviously important, but they are also prevention, preparation and reaction”. The incessant study of the subject, the ability to embellish his work with science and technology, the enthusiasm with which he accompanies every training: Antonio Pintus is a factor, of those who move the balances in play.
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