Method, techniques and psychology of the coach who built another unbeatable Italy: 29 successes to follow, the last one the triumph tris in the Nations League. Here’s how an extraordinary group shaped
One of Julio Velasco’s most obvious skills is to disavow clichés. For example, he does not like to hear about the group, one of the most used rhetorical figures, indeed abused, in the story of sport. The insistence on the group, on friendship, on being one one, does nothing but remove from the central point of any sporting company: which is what is done on the field. Even those who lose can very well have a united group, so explaining a success with the group of the group confuses, it is not needed. Intervening to help a partner is not a gesture of friendship but a dynamic of the game: if you do not you are not bad or unpleasant, you are simply playing badly.