Inter: who is Spinelli, the goalkeeper coach of the future?

With the probable departure of Handanovic, Bonaiuti will also say goodbye: the goal will be to work on some technical defects in Onana: Conte’s Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain are also in the specialist’s curriculum

An important change in the Inter staff of the future, a strategic graft that opens glimpses of 2023-24. Regardless of who will be the coach, the role of main goalkeeper coach should be entrusted to Gianluca Spinelli, the authority on the matter. The 56-year-old Milanese has spent the last four seasons at PSG where he arrived in 2018 together with Gigi Buffon and where he weaned Gigio Donnarumma.

State of the art

His curriculum is, however, very varied: immediately after the end of his career as a footballer, his career as a coach began in 2002 at Como. After two seasons, the move to Genoa, where he remained for ten long years, establishing himself as one of the best on the square for his innovative training techniques. In 2014 the entry into the national team led by Antonio Conte, coach also followed at Chelsea from 2016 to 2018. Over the years the home bulletin board has become rich: a couple of French Cups, three Ligue 1, three Super Cups and a Cup of French League, while with i Blues in Antonio’s time he triumphed in the Premier League and in the Fa Cup. Spinelli, who had already married in Paris, had however not followed the Salento coach at the time of his first Inter experience in 2019.

Changing of the guard

Today it is not known what will become of the Nerazzurri bench, given that Simone Inzaghi has the possibility of a historian exploit in the Champions League who would remove every cloud from himself. Instead, there would be a symbolic reunification of the coach-trainer couple in the event of a surprising Conte-bis. In any case, a new era in goal will begin at Inter, with the probable farewell of captain Samir Handanovic followed for years by Adriano Bonaiuti, in the Nerazzurri staff since 2013. André Onana has now established himself as goal leader, he has amazed for his reactivity and courage, but some technical flaws should be corrected: I work for Spinelli. Unless the right check arrives for the Cameroonian: Chelsea and United are thinking about it. And seriously.

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