Raised at Genoa, he became great in Russia. After a first (complicated) adventure in Verona, he returns to Italy to Galliani’s court
From Russia to Hollywood. Because this Serie A is like cinema, it has sequins, sequins, lights, colours. Salvatore Bocchetti is in his new truman show: the Monza bench. And rest assured: he will have no shortage of enthusiasm. We have the evidence. Several years ago redwhite.ru had fans send in a list of questions for Bocchetti. The intent was to understand what had driven a player to leave Italy, football made in Italy, the real, original one. No one, said the journalist, “has ever had so many questions: if he had to answer them all, we would talk for hours.” Bocchetti, a Neapolitan from Secondigliano, one who couldn’t be warmer, simply said that this was an occasion and that the great cold didn’t scare him. It was 2010, he had left Genoa for Rubin. “Obviously my country of origin is Italy. But I have a Russian wife, my son was born, so what’s the problem? Your country has become my second home, it’s the truth.” Experiences shape you. The nine years spent between Kazan and Moscow also did so, in what turned out to be a real training ground for Bocchetti. Today, at 38, with a career behind him, he will have his second chance as a coach in the top Italian league.