The former coach tells herself: “I was director in a multinational, I gave everything to become technical. They called me the Rossoneri, but my Verona collapsed. It was the turning point of my career. My Parma was crazy, then I no longer found the same emotions. After a period of rejection I started following football again”
First months of 2002, Alberto Malasani sits on the Verona bench. The team plays well, is seventh in the standings and Milan gets alive. “That’s right, the Rossoneri were led by Carlo Ancelotti who had replaced Terim. I speak with Dr. Galliani who tells me: ‘We follow it. If in the second round he does as in the first leg, we are affected at the end of the season’. Unfortunately, instead, my Verona collapsed and at the end of the championship there was the relegation. The Cup of champions in Manchester.
Malasans, that non -transition to Milan in 2002 was the turning point of his career?
“I often thought about it and I would say yes. From then on my path was not as positive as in previous years. I am still satisfied, I’m not there to cry on me”.
Three years earlier, in 1999, on the Parma bench, Italian Cup, the UEFA Cup and Italian Super Cup in the course of a hundred days. Incredible.
“An unforgettable ride. We had a crazy team: Buffon on goal; Thuram, Sensini and Cannavaro in defense; Fuser and Vanoli on the band; Dino Baggio, Boghossian, Veron in midfield; Crespo and church in attack. We played a modern, spectacular football, all pressing and overlapping. Unfortunately we did not arrive at the Scudetto, but perhaps the whole environment, at the time, was not equipped at the time. For a similar company “.
The year before, in Fiorentina, he had fans fall in love.
“And the players, from Rui Costa to Batistuta. When I had some discussion with President Cecchi Gori the locker room sided on my side. We went to win in Parma, the Cavalier Calisto Tanzi was impressed by my Fiorentina game and the next day he summoned me to his office in Collecchio to hire me. I was free, I immediately said yes”.
A career built on the merits, his.
“Nobody has ever given me anything. I started with Chievo, I did the apprenticeship, I fired from the Canon where I had a role as a manager for my passion: football. From there to Fiorentina after that, for three months, I had been followed by Antognoni and DS Cinquini. And therefore Parma, always because I had impressed through the game”.
After that dazzling start, the braking was brusque. Why?
“Honestly I don’t know. I changed many teams, I trained eleven in Italy, but I never managed to find that alchemy necessary to achieve success. My methods have never changed, I think it is a matter of emotions. If I had gone to Milan, who knows … Oh well, I don’t want to think about it, it’s past water”.
Some of his press conferences remain famous, which today are on the web, in which he vented himself with rather impaired tones. Have these details also contributed to curbing his career?
“It may be, but I think there is the fact that I have never sought, and consequently I have never had, important sponsors, I have never made friends with the counting. I was in football, but a little on the sidelines. It is my character. In the work, in all the works I did, I put commitment, penalty, passion and a little healthy madness. And I have always been a man, and therefore a coach. My career would have been different, but that’s okay. ”
First manager of a multinational, then coach, then winemaker.
“Another satisfaction. I managed to put on a company that I now sold, and I received important awards. Do you think everything was born during a trip to the UEFA Cup. It was the spring of 1999, with Parma we went to Bordeaux and I, on the eve, visited a famous cellar and was fascinated by it. From that moment I always wanted to become a wine producer, I bought a nice piece of land, And the company went through “.
Football still follows him?
“I confess that I had had a feeling of rejection, a few years ago. But now I got closer to the ball and knows who is the merit?”.
“Of the new coaches that are in Serie A. I like them, I admire their way of football. I speak of Italian, Baroni, Fabregas. I study their tactics, I am a tactic maniac, I keep updated, I think what I would do if I had to face them, what moves I would choose. It is a way to feel still inside the field. I believe that the Italian school of the coaches is the best in the world,
And then, today, what’s in Alberto Malasani’s life?
“The family, friends, golf in the morning and cards at the tavern every afternoon. I enjoy playing a briscola or tressette as a crazy. And you knew how difficult it is! I also do the tournaments, I reached good levels thanks to the teachings of my friends that I call masters. And after, that he won or who has lost, a nice dinner in the restaurant together.
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