Wanted by Rui Costa against popular opinion which asked for a Portuguese coach, the German has merged his philosophy with local tradition and the team is now flying
Watching Benfica-Juventus last October it seemed that Roger Schmidt had been sitting on the Lusitan bench for a year and a half and Massimiliano Allegri on that of the black and white for three months. Instead it was the opposite, and this impression is useful to give an idea of the impact the German coach had in Lisbon.