The Napoli coach in the exclusive interview with Sky recalls how he became a Juventus coach in 2011. And he cannot conceal a great emotion …
He has never made it a secret: “For me Juventus is, he was and will always be Juventus”, reiterated Antonio Conte in the exclusive interview given to Federico Buffa and Federico Ferri for Sky. And to confirm the visceral bond that has always been between the technician and the black and white is another extract of the same chat/confession: the one in which he recalls the first meeting with Andrea Agnelli and how he became Juventus coach in the 2011-12 season. So much to close with shiny eyes …
Conte and the first meeting with Agnelli
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“I was at dinner with my wife and I see a phone call from Dr. Giraudo”, thus begins the story of the Napoli coach. “Then I go out of the restaurant and on the other side of the phone: ‘Hi Antonio, how are you?’ Conte at that moment is the coach of Siena, who travels sent to the promotion in Serie A. “I remember that we played with Novara – continues Antonio Conte a Sky – And after I practically come back to Turin in Vado at his house. We say goodbye and he starts asking me for a little bit from Siena, as the season had gone, congratulates me for Serie A (who in truth will be officially conquered only on the following day, editor’s note) And everything and then says: ‘Do you want to buy some players from us?’ And I: ‘Look Andrea, honestly we are not at the level … there was Montepaschi behind as a sponsor, however … Here, from this sentence I understand that I am not in the idea, however, regardless of Andrea’.
As Conte became the Juve coach
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The initial sensations, however, will not prove to be the correct ones. “We are there to speak I think 5 hours and then in the meantime his wife also goes down – goes on to tell the Napoli coach -. We say goodbye, then he gets up and then I learned that his wife had asked him: ‘But who is he?’ And it is here that Conte is visibly in difficulty, he has a moment of hesitation, he smiles nervous at the memory of the anecdote and his eyes become shiny. “So it ends that we speak 5 hours – concludes the technician -. I do not come into the Juve coach and I go out that he tells me: ‘The next step is that I have to make you talk to Marotta'”. And that was the beginning of everything: a bench that for Conte will never be like the others …
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