Inside AC Milan: Geoffrey Moncada
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00:06 Geoffrey Moncada, every dream,
00:09 relative to what we would like to be
00:11 as children,
00:13 what did you dream of as a child,
00:15 and what was your first contact
00:18 with the world of football?
00:20 My first contact with football was
00:22 at the ESMONACO.
00:24 I started seeing the team,
00:26 who were champions, with David Trezeguet,
00:28 Marco Simone, Ludovic Giuli.
00:30 I saw a match and immediately
00:32 I understood that it was my
00:34 path, the work I wanted to do
00:36 in the future.
00:38 As a child, my father always
00:40 took me to see matches
00:42 in Monaco and Marseille.
00:44 I started following them
00:46 and I went crazy for it.
00:49 Was there any other team
00:51 that maybe interested you a little more,
00:53 that you followed a little more passionately?
00:55 I liked the Italian football much more.
00:57 In Italy, I like Italian football
00:59 because at that time
01:01 there was a player called
01:03 Zinedine Zidane, who was important
01:05 for us, French.
01:07 AC Milan had many French players
01:09 like Marcel De Sailly,
01:11 also a Georges Ouéat, who had
01:13 played for French football,
01:15 and Spain, of course, Spain,
01:17 Portugal too.
01:19 You were born in Saint-Tropez,
01:21 which is not a city that has a
01:23 particular football tradition.
01:25 What has changed in the world of football
01:27 over the years?
01:29 I had a grandfather who was
01:31 really crazy about football
01:33 and he showed me many, many games.
01:35 And so I started
01:37 to understand and see
01:39 matches, players,
01:41 tactics,
01:43 in the World Cup, etc.
01:45 And just like that,
01:47 but not from Saint-Tropez,
01:49 I think, because I was born in Saint-Tropez,
01:51 but I immediately went to Cannes, Nice,
01:53 and Monaco, this area,
01:55 there were always matches between Cannes, Nice and Monaco,
01:57 which was an important area in France.
01:59 Do you have any particular memories
02:01 of AC Milan in your childhood?
02:03 Because in those years, AC Milan
02:05 was one of the strongest teams in the world.
02:07 AC Milan had many French players.
02:09 There were always matches, you know,
02:11 French, for example, they played
02:13 on French TV,
02:15 which was public, and it was possible to see
02:17 the Champions League matches. And there was Paris Saint-Germain,
02:19 Milan, Monaco, Milan.
02:21 And so I met
02:23 AC Milan, I met the fans,
02:25 I saw this beautiful shirt,
02:27 and I saw
02:29 that it was a very, very strong team.
02:31 You can immediately see that everyone
02:33 speaks well of AC Milan.
02:35 From the love for football,
02:37 you matured when you went out on the pitch,
02:39 tell us what role you played
02:41 and how you played it.
02:43 I was really, for comparison,
02:45 a bad guy.
02:47 I was very, very bad.
02:49 I wasn't tall,
02:51 but I was very, very bad.
02:53 A lot of pressing, intensity.
02:55 I was born in '86
02:57 and French football
02:59 started to become much, much stronger.
03:01 And I saw that
03:03 I wasn't bad, but I wasn't a super player,
03:05 for sure.
03:07 And I saw that other players
03:09 didn't have the right profile
03:11 to play.
03:13 And then I liked the world of football
03:15 more than playing,
03:17 being a footballer.
03:19 I always liked the coaches,
03:21 the sporting director, the president,
03:23 because I saw that it was difficult to do,
03:25 and I always watched
03:27 this type of flight.
03:29 Let's talk a little bit about your family,
03:31 since we've talked about you since you were little.
03:33 What relationship did you have with your parents?
03:35 With my parents,
03:37 I'm very, very close
03:39 because my father,
03:41 who is the one who showed me
03:43 football games,
03:45 always let me go to watch games,
03:47 to go play football,
03:49 but he always left me a little freedom in football.
03:51 His job is very different.
03:53 He's a gendarme,
03:55 a carabinier.
03:57 He had a very
03:59 solid culture,
04:01 let's say, a little military.
04:03 And then
04:05 my mother also let me go,
04:07 she was always, not always with me,
04:09 but she always let me
04:11 do what I wanted to do.
04:13 She never left me with many problems.
04:15 What do you think is the greatest
04:17 teaching your parents gave you?
04:19 They always told me
04:21 to do the things I like
04:23 and to go all the way.
04:25 When I said I wanted to work in football,
04:27 normally they say, "Yes, but not as a footballer,
04:29 what do you want to do?"
04:31 And I said, "I want to try something," without knowing.
04:33 My parents really let me go
04:35 and try the things you want to do,
04:37 try many things, and make your experience.
04:39 You have to travel, too, it's important.
04:41 And when you do something,
04:43 you go all the way.
04:45 How did your career go?
04:47 Tell us a little about the stages you went through.
04:49 I studied management,
04:51 more on commercial, marketing.
04:53 It was interesting because
04:55 I worked in a group, but I immediately saw
04:57 that I was missing something, the sports aspect.
04:59 So, at the end of my career,
05:03 let's say, football,
05:05 and work, studied work,
05:07 I went to find a company,
05:09 a football club,
05:11 it was an area called Sofia Antipolis,
05:13 Sofia Antipolis is an area like the French Silicon Valley.
05:15 And there was a company
05:17 called Videoprofile,
05:19 and their job
05:21 was to make videos
05:23 about footballers and teams.
05:25 They worked on tactical videos
05:27 and video scouting.
05:29 I started like that.
05:31 When and how did you get the call from Monaco?
05:33 I went to Monaco for a year,
05:35 I always waited
05:37 because it was my club.
05:39 And once at the Sporting Area,
05:41 I got a call
05:43 from the head coach, Christian Carsten,
05:45 and he told me that I had to
05:47 have a meeting with him because our coach,
05:49 Claudio Ranieri,
05:51 needed a video analyst match.
05:53 It was a bit general.
05:55 And I came to Monte Carlo,
05:57 I had a meeting,
05:59 and after the meeting, they asked me to come.
06:01 The next week was very, very fast.
06:03 Did you manage to believe
06:05 at that moment that the team
06:07 of your heart called you
06:09 to work for them?
06:11 No, I didn't think it was like that.
06:13 But you know,
06:15 when the right moment comes,
06:17 you immediately feel that you have to go.
06:19 There was no barrier.
06:21 And so in 2012,
06:23 your adventure in Monaco starts.
06:25 Can you tell us a little about the beginnings
06:27 of that adventure?
06:29 The team was in Serebi,
06:31 a Russian fund came to you,
06:33 they changed everything,
06:35 the coach, the sports director,
06:37 the president, and the coach,
06:39 Claudio Ranieri,
06:41 who has the Italian mentality,
06:43 who wants to make a lot of videos,
06:45 a lot of tactical analysis,
06:47 asked for a match analyst.
06:49 So I arrived at the office,
06:51 in Monaco, at the COB,
06:53 the sports center,
06:55 but there was nothing,
06:57 there was nothing,
06:59 there was no computer,
07:01 there was nothing to create, to do.
07:03 So for me it was interesting,
07:05 also difficult, because when you arrive,
07:07 there is no one, there is nothing,
07:09 you have to understand everything,
07:11 and I immediately had a relationship
07:13 with the coach and his staff.
07:15 And also the dressing room,
07:17 that helped me a lot,
07:19 because so you can understand
07:21 the questions, the need of the coach,
07:23 the game that is played,
07:25 when we lose, you see all the things
07:27 that are difficult on the dressing room
07:29 that is very, very important.
07:31 What kind of relationship did you have
07:33 with this property?
07:35 I am a businessman,
07:37 and they left a line of work
07:39 that was to create players,
07:41 to make players,
07:43 and to sell.
07:45 Every year they asked
07:47 to take 10 players and sell 10.
07:49 It was more or less like that,
07:51 I think that scouting training
07:53 started like that.
07:55 Because they immediately understood
07:57 that the club was too small
07:59 to keep players,
08:01 and it was much more interesting
08:03 to do scouting on French players,
08:05 foreign players,
08:07 and create a laboratory
08:09 on Monaco.
08:11 In that context,
08:13 in addition to Claudio Ranieri,
08:15 you also meet another person
08:17 who recognizes important qualities
08:19 to start scouting,
08:21 which is Riccardo Pecini.
08:23 He was more of a scout than a director,
08:25 and he started to do this work in Monaco
08:27 as a director. He liked to see players
08:29 live and also in videos,
08:31 and to understand many things.
08:33 I learned a lot from him,
08:35 because he is not a person who speaks a lot,
08:37 but he explains things well.
08:39 The relationship was very professional,
08:41 and he immediately needed
08:43 a scouting coordinator.
08:45 A scouting coordinator is more
08:47 a person who works
08:49 to organize
08:51 the scouting department,
08:53 to organize a department.
08:55 There are many people who work,
08:57 there is a logistics, a database,
08:59 there are relationships to do,
09:01 it is a very interesting job,
09:03 but we have to start well.
09:05 Riccardo also gave me
09:07 this opportunity
09:09 without putting pressure,
09:11 he said "help me and let's make
09:13 a more organized department".
09:15 I was alone to do tactical work
09:17 with Mr. Ranieri,
09:19 and a scouting coordinator
09:21 in the morning.
09:23 In the morning I worked with the staff,
09:25 and with the players,
09:27 and in the afternoon I went
09:29 to the scouting department.
09:31 It was a job that was
09:33 very intense and interesting.
09:35 It was a job that was
09:37 very intense and interesting.
09:39 At the level of steps,
09:41 because it is interesting to discover
09:43 this too, what was step by step
09:45 your video analysis work?
09:47 We understood that the opponent
09:49 was very important,
09:51 we worked a lot more on
09:53 the tactical part of the opponent
09:55 than on the video scouting at the end.
09:57 We saw that every week
09:59 there were at least three video meetings
10:01 with the players and the staff,
10:03 to analyze the defense phase,
10:05 the offensive phase of the team,
10:07 the opponent,
10:09 corner kick, all the things
10:11 the strongest players.
10:13 It was more general at the end
10:15 on the part of the team than on the scouting part.
10:17 How often did you travel?
10:19 How was your week divided?
10:21 How many times did you go to see
10:23 a game where you were interested
10:25 in observing some players?
10:27 On the week I was in the office
10:29 to organize, to do the planning,
10:31 to see many things,
10:33 also to talk to the staff,
10:35 also to talk to the sports director.
10:37 On the weekend, for example,
10:39 on Friday night, there is a game
10:41 in the Belgian championship,
10:43 I go here, and on Saturday afternoon
10:45 there is a game, on Saturday evening
10:47 also, on Sunday afternoon the same thing,
10:49 on Sunday evening also.
10:51 I came back on Monday, for example,
10:53 it was more or less like that,
10:55 but when you travel, you can also meet
10:57 other people who work
10:59 on the territory, on the country.
11:01 I met many sports directors,
11:03 many capi scouts, many scouts,
11:05 many journalists who were here
11:07 and who gave you information.
11:09 And I immediately saw that
11:11 the important thing to see the player
11:13 is not the 10%, because you go on the field
11:15 but you can understand many things,
11:17 the family of the guy
11:19 who is here, close to you,
11:21 there is the prosecutor
11:23 who gives you information.
11:25 So I saw that the video work
11:27 I do on the week, but after the weekend
11:29 in live it is very, very important to go.
11:31 What kind of relationship
11:33 did you have with the players,
11:35 with the team? Because obviously
11:37 when you went to propose video analysis
11:39 also on the opponents, there was
11:41 a little credibility to gain
11:43 in the work you did.
11:45 And how did they react
11:47 to this kind of thing, which at the time
11:49 was also a novelty from this point of view?
11:51 Exactly, it was a novelty
11:53 with many foreign players.
11:55 There was a mix of English,
11:57 French, a little Spanish,
11:59 a little Italian, etc.
12:01 All the players have seen
12:03 that I came with humility
12:05 to show things that
12:07 we can develop, not that we have to,
12:09 but that we can develop
12:11 to become much stronger.
12:13 And I was lucky to have
12:15 players like Jérémie Toulalain,
12:17 Eryk Abidal, Radamel Falcao, James Rodriguez
12:19 on this team.
12:21 They ask me after the game,
12:23 "Joffre, come here, show me the actions,
12:25 show me how the player is,
12:27 show me the players I have to play
12:29 this weekend."
12:31 What are the discoveries, let's say,
12:33 of which you are most proud?
12:35 There was Bakayoko, Thomas Lemar, Benjamin Mendy,
12:37 GbcDiber, there were many French players
12:39 who were here, Valère Germain.
12:41 And these players are also...
12:45 We are proud, because the Scouting Department
12:47 is proud, we worked together,
12:49 not just me, it's not like that.
12:51 They came to play a Champions League game,
12:53 we won the championship,
12:55 we played the semifinal against Juve
12:57 that we lost, but it was nice to see
12:59 this group that had arrived three years ago
13:01 and that grew up to go to the Champions League
13:03 and win the championship.
13:05 It was very nice.
13:07 French players, foreigners,
13:09 from the family, from Manila Silva,
13:11 many, many players,
13:13 Juri Tillmans, Sofiane Diop.
13:15 Now they play in the first league,
13:17 they play in the big clubs,
13:19 Thomas Lemar and Atlético Madrid.
13:21 We saw them in Caen,
13:23 in the suburbs of Caen, in the spring,
13:25 for example. We saw them like that,
13:27 without Anthony Martial,
13:29 who was there in B.
13:31 No, it was very interesting
13:33 and we see the growth of the players.
13:35 We always see it, every year we see
13:37 when the players learn more.
13:39 Were there any players
13:41 who maybe didn't convince you
13:43 particularly, but then
13:45 they turned out to be excellent players?
13:47 No, there is a good example
13:49 who now plays with us
13:51 at AC Milan, his name is Isma Benacer.
13:53 He started
13:55 at a small club called
13:57 Arla Vignon in France,
13:59 near Monaco, and we went to see him many times.
14:01 Riccardo Pecinio liked this player a lot
14:03 and we followed him.
14:05 But he immediately went to a big club
14:07 like Arsenal and he didn't play.
14:09 It's normal because it's a first league club,
14:11 it's more difficult.
14:13 Then he went back to Italy and he grew a lot,
14:15 he became very, very strong.
14:17 He is an example that
14:19 we must always work more,
14:21 we must always give the guys a little time
14:23 because it's normal
14:25 and to take a little step every year,
14:27 to take steps for the players.
14:29 You have played a lot at Monaco,
14:31 even personally,
14:33 at a certain point, the call came
14:35 from AC Milan.
14:37 I ask you, at that point,
14:39 what did you feel
14:41 and how much did it gratify you
14:43 to receive a call from such an important club
14:45 for all the work you managed to do?
14:47 It was this summer
14:51 when the American fund
14:53 arrived and took the club.
14:55 They called me,
14:57 I remember, in August
14:59 to do this work of the Head Coach.
15:01 I did three meetings
15:03 and then I arrived in December.
15:05 So from August to December,
15:07 you know, working with Monaco
15:09 and thinking about AC Milan,
15:11 for me the choice was already made.
15:13 I had to talk to them, explain
15:15 and they understood, but it wasn't easy.
15:17 When Milan called you
15:19 and there was also
15:21 a little bit to do, a little bit to create,
15:23 it was also a very, very interesting project.
15:25 It's true that there is not much distance,
15:27 but at what point did you notice
15:29 the change
15:31 from moving from Monaco to Milan?
15:33 At the level of work,
15:35 it was very, very different.
15:37 There is much more pressure here,
15:39 there is a much bigger fan base
15:41 and between Italian and French football,
15:43 in Italy, there is always passion.
15:45 Everyone talks about football.
15:47 In Monaco,
15:49 no one talks about football.
15:51 We talk about other things,
15:53 about cars, restaurants,
15:55 but not so much about football.
15:57 So I immediately saw that
15:59 we have to do things right,
16:01 that we have to work,
16:03 find the right players,
16:05 create a work process,
16:07 which in Monaco was maybe
16:09 much easier or much faster,
16:11 here it was important to do a process.
16:13 The difference was like this.
16:15 Speaking of this process,
16:17 tell us a little bit about
16:19 how you are currently structured
16:21 at the level of scouting.
16:23 Most of them are here in Italy.
16:25 It is important to have a little
16:27 foreign scouts because they
16:29 leave you with a different vision
16:31 and we can't always go everywhere,
16:33 we can't travel because it's difficult,
16:35 we don't always have time.
16:37 Today my role is
16:39 technical director
16:41 and today we do more meetings
16:43 and we have all the relations,
16:45 all the reports on the database.
16:47 When we did all the work,
16:49 video, scouting live,
16:51 data is also important,
16:53 I spoke directly with the staff
16:55 and with the manager.
16:57 So we can talk and say,
16:59 "Ok, look, this right, left,
17:01 central and interesting third,
17:03 what do you think?"
17:05 There is immediately the relationship.
17:07 We did this on this market in the summer.
17:09 We worked on a profile,
17:11 a profile of players
17:13 who must be physically strong,
17:15 fast, powerful.
17:17 It was a bit the type of players
17:19 we wanted to do.
17:21 And then it also depends on the market,
17:23 it also depends on how we can
17:25 develop the team, it depends on the solutions,
17:27 it depends on the budget, many things.
17:29 But it is important to work with the staff,
17:31 with the managers, because in the end
17:33 we do the same thing and we want to have
17:35 the same team together and that's the most important thing.
17:37 In terms of approach,
17:39 in dealing with a player,
17:41 which you are now used to doing,
17:43 what do you put on the table
17:45 to convince a player
17:47 that your offer
17:49 is better
17:51 than many others?
17:53 You should know that there is an incredible competition
17:55 now.
17:57 There are German clubs, English,
17:59 Spanish, Italian, who also work well
18:01 and we are more or less
18:03 on the same players.
18:05 So I think the minimum
18:07 is to see at least four times in life.
18:09 Two games at home,
18:11 two games away.
18:13 We also need to have important data,
18:15 information
18:17 on the player,
18:19 the mentality, the family,
18:21 the whole package,
18:23 the global package that we need to understand
18:25 about the player. When we have this kind of
18:27 information, I go to see the game
18:29 live, I can talk about
18:31 tactics, etc., but the player
18:33 now wants to understand,
18:35 if I signed in Milan, I want to know
18:37 the Milan world, I want to understand
18:39 if there is training here, but there is a life.
18:41 And so I think
18:43 we have a great club, we have a beautiful city,
18:45 a beautiful country, I can sell
18:47 this project to players.
18:49 If you come to Milan, it's not just football,
18:51 there are other things that are very, very
18:53 important. And at this moment I am happy
18:55 because the message
18:57 always passes and they understand
18:59 well. In addition to the technical aspect,
19:01 what do you look at more
19:03 in a player when you go to buy him?
19:05 It is important to talk about this situation,
19:07 because the data helps you find players
19:09 that we don't know.
19:11 But in the end, the most important thing is to go
19:13 live, because if you see so many things,
19:15 the speed, if you see the rhythm changes,
19:17 if you see the strength of the player,
19:19 we must have a good profile.
19:21 Physically, he must run a lot,
19:23 he must be very
19:25 solid, I like this first.
19:27 And then the
19:29 mentality and how he speaks,
19:31 how he speaks to me, if he
19:33 likes to talk about Milan, if he likes
19:35 to talk about him, I want to understand
19:37 this type of thing, because
19:39 later we take a guy
19:41 who goes to a dressing room with 25 players
19:43 and we have to create
19:45 a mix, a culture
19:47 all together.
19:49 I always say that the club is much more important
19:51 than him. Immediately I talk about this
19:53 Milan club,
19:55 the important thing is AC Milan,
19:57 not him. So you can see
19:59 immediately when there is a player who says "no, no,
20:01 I'm a star, no, no".
20:03 We don't want to create a group, a team.
20:05 We don't want to make a team with many different profiles.
20:07 No, we want to create a group.
20:09 There is a particularly talented player
20:11 in this Milan,
20:13 his name is Raffaele Ao,
20:15 that Geoffrey Moncada
20:17 had met in unsuspected times
20:19 already when he played
20:21 at the Giovanilli dello Sport in Lisbon.
20:23 Tell us a little bit
20:25 how you got to know Raffaele Ao,
20:27 what struck you about him?
20:29 At this time I was a scout in Monaco,
20:31 and I was preparing to do a
20:33 training in Portugal, in Lisbon.
20:35 In Lisbon there was
20:37 the spring season
20:39 of the Lisbon Sporting.
20:41 At this time there was no video
20:45 and no data on the players.
20:47 We had to go on the pitch and see the players.
20:49 I saw a guy who played
20:51 number 10, tall,
20:53 fast technically, the famous
20:55 Raffaele Ao. It was a game
20:57 against Belenenses,
20:59 and I immediately saw a player with
21:01 incredible talent.
21:03 We followed him, we followed him in the national team,
21:05 we followed him in the league,
21:07 other scouts have seen him,
21:09 but he didn't always do well.
21:11 Once he played, once he played with B,
21:13 with U19, once in the national team,
21:15 once not. It was difficult to follow him well.
21:17 The most important thing for me
21:19 at the end of the academy
21:21 is when the players
21:23 play in the Youth League.
21:25 For me the step is fundamental.
21:27 When a player does well in the Youth League,
21:29 we can say that he will make a career.
21:31 It's very easy.
21:33 Raffaele Ao did too well
21:35 in the Youth League, he was really on another planet.
21:37 And the whole world of scouting,
21:39 not just Monaco, Milan, us,
21:41 the world of scouting saw him and said
21:43 "this will be a strong player".
21:45 And now he plays, he plays well,
21:47 I'm happy because he's a guy
21:49 who grew up in a department
21:51 Sporting Lisbon.
21:53 Now he's with us in Milan
21:55 and he's made a great step.
21:57 Let's talk about Milanello.
21:59 I ask you what impact you had
22:01 the first time you saw him,
22:03 in these years, how you lived it
22:05 and we see you very often
22:07 in the Rossonero Sports Centre.
22:09 I do the morning training
22:11 to talk a little with the coach,
22:13 with the staff, which I think is the most important thing,
22:15 to always feel close to them,
22:17 to understand a little what they need.
22:19 The important thing for me is that I know the players
22:21 because we have taken
22:23 these players over two or three years.
22:25 So it's very easy for me to talk to them
22:27 to know a little how they are,
22:29 to talk a little about the family,
22:31 about their health, how they are physically
22:33 and about the game, because we always want
22:35 to understand that we can do
22:37 good or better.
22:39 I'm always open to them
22:43 because I feel a little
22:45 with them, even if I can't do more,
22:47 but I'm with them to understand
22:49 a little the things we can
22:51 always develop.
22:53 I talk a little about tactics
22:55 with the staff, with the coach,
22:57 because it's important to talk to them together
22:59 because we don't have time
23:01 to talk only between us,
23:03 we have to talk together to understand
23:05 the situations we can develop.
23:07 And also with Giorgio Fornani,
23:09 who is always with me,
23:11 the manager of the Cat,
23:13 who helps me a lot,
23:15 who leaves me a lot of space
23:17 and he is also very open
23:19 to them and wants to know things.
23:21 If the player feels good in Milan,
23:23 if he feels good in Milanello,
23:25 if he feels good physically, etc.
23:27 It's really important for him and for us.
23:29 I think we can't
23:31 be sad to be here,
23:33 we have a beautiful life
23:35 to work at AC Milan.
23:37 In recent years at Milan
23:39 there have been clearly beautiful moments,
23:41 but also less beautiful moments.
23:43 In this sense, how does
23:45 Giofremo Nkada put himself
23:47 in terms of balance?
23:49 It's really long,
23:51 we all have to be calm,
23:53 we have to work,
23:55 there are difficult moments,
23:57 it's normal because we play
23:59 with a stronger team,
24:01 we have problems,
24:03 there are many things.
24:05 When we win, we have to win
24:07 with respect for everyone
24:09 and we continue to work
24:11 to win even more.
24:13 For me, the most important thing
24:15 is to be more or less stable
24:17 in the matches, to stay calm.
24:19 You focus on the present,
24:21 but also on the future.
24:23 A new era has started for Milan
24:25 this summer. What is the idea
24:27 of the future of Milan and Giofremo Nkada?
24:29 The idea is to create a strong group
24:31 of players who will work
24:33 for 3-4 years.
24:35 We need an academy that brings
24:37 young Italian players to help
24:39 the team, this is very important.
24:41 But a project is done in 3-4 years.
24:43 If we make a good team,
24:45 a good group of players,
24:47 in 2-3 years we will win.
24:49 Now we have changed a lot,
24:51 next year we will change 2-3 players
24:53 more, but at least we already have
24:55 the base of the team.
24:57 This is important because we want
24:59 to win everything immediately,
25:01 but we need a plan to do
25:03 things well and to bring players
25:05 to a strong group every year.
25:07 You have reached a very important
25:09 point in your career,
25:11 but if I had to look back,
25:13 I would say that you have
25:15 to think about when you left.
25:17 Are there people you feel
25:19 grateful for in particular
25:21 for what they gave you
25:23 or maybe for new visions
25:25 that opened you?
25:27 There are many people, we had
25:29 many directors in Monaco,
25:31 almost every year there was a new director.
25:33 I learned more about scouting with
25:35 Riccardo Pecine and Luis Campos,
25:37 who is now the sports director
25:39 of Paris Saint-Germain, they are more
25:41 experienced than me, and I also learned
25:43 a lot with Antonio Cordone, a Spanish
25:45 director, who taught me that the club
25:47 must be a family, that it must be
25:49 all together, all departments
25:51 connected together.
25:53 From the academy to the first team,
25:55 to scouting, to the medical sector,
25:57 everyone must be a little important
25:59 in this group. This also made me
26:01 understand many things, because in the
26:03 end, if we have a club together,
26:05 we can do many things. We still have to
26:07 work. Thank you very much.
26:09 (whooshing)