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00:00 Giovanni Galli, Mauro Tassotti, Paolo Maldini, Carlo Ancelotti, Alessandro Costa Curta, Franco Baresi, Roberto Donadoni, Frank Reichard, Marco Van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Kiko Evani.
00:14 Nine of these champions of Milan of the immortals have become coaches, some for a shorter period, some for a long time, having also arrived in some cases until today.
00:26 Two others have become managers, Giovanni Galli and Paolo Maldini, they all learned a lot from Silvio Berlusconi and Arrigo Sacchi and they were able to go far, not only as club coaches but also at the national level,
00:41 since Luragano Frenchi and Cigno di Utrecht were the technical commissars of the Netherlands, Roberto Donadoni of Italy, while Ruud Gullit and Kiko Evani were the vice-coaches of the Citi, with the great European goal of the Azzurri,
00:58 shared by Roberto Mancini not only with his great friend Gianluca Biali but also with his very close collaborator in the staff who responds precisely to the name of Evani.
01:09 In addition to the very first eleven, how not to remember the benches of Filippo Galli in the spring of Milan and his role as manager of the youth sector in Rosso Nero and the three years as a coach of Serie C1 of Pietro Paolo Virdis in the years between a millennium and the other.
01:27 In short, how is it possible that a whole team expresses such high technical or managerial values, always putting in the forefront Franco Baresi, vice-president of the club and remembering the managerial and organizational skills of the real ambassador of Daniele Massaro.
01:46 In the podcast "I racconti Rosso Neri" the voice that tries to tell us and introduce us to this world of Milan of the immortals, all coaches or managers, is that of Kiko Evani.
01:59 It all started with the arrival of Mr. Sacchi because he began to turn the concept of football a bit and from there he opened his eyes to all of us because he began to make it clear that the game of football is a collective game and not individual and that the game itself is developed in the right way, it enhances the individual characteristics and not vice versa.
02:27 And so we did what he wanted but then he allowed us to continue his football thinking, what we try to bring back all those teachings, all those experiences to the new generations.
02:47 Alberigo Evani, for his part, was coach of the Milan youth teams, starting with the debutants, where he made a debut by indicating to everyone as an example a child named Matteo and surname Darmian when he set foot at 11 years old under age on the fields of Rosso Neri.
03:06 It is in fact a glory of blue football because it was at the top of the Italian national staff that won the European Championship in 2021 at Wembley and was also the technical commissioner of the national U20, arrived third and bronze medal at the 2017 World Cup, the best place ever before the final of 2023.
03:29 Chico was coach of the youth teams, he was a first team coach and also assistant coach. Is football different if seen, if thought, if lived from these three different perspectives?
03:43 I started as a coach with the last team of the Milan youth sector and with the debutants, thanks to Franco Baresi who was responsible for the Milan youth sector and with whom, in addition to having played together, I had also done the course in Coverciano as a coach.
04:02 I must say that I thank him for allowing me to start from the last category because when you say that someone who has played football is not mathematically a coach and he is right, at that time I was not able to teach myself to a higher category.
04:27 But from there, year after year, he allowed me to grow, because I started with the debutants, then I moved on to the young, then I moved on to the students, then I moved on to the first team, then I moved on to the first team.
04:40 After that, I moved on to the whole line of the Milan youth sector, under 18, under 19, under 20, under 21, and then I became the technical collaborator of Roberto Mancini in the national team.
04:55 But all this was possible because I started from the bottom, because he made me know each stage and now I believe I have the knowledge and experience to continue to do it in the future.
05:08 Roberto Mancini, as technical commissary of the Italian national football team, has made his choice after the poor qualification at the final phase of the World Cup in Qatar in 2022, and has become the technical manager of another national team, of a national expression of a rising football movement, which speaks a lot about itself on the media and economic level, that of Saudi Arabia.
05:34 Alberigo Evani, on the other hand, has lived significant years on the personal level and very important on the results front, with Mancini himself, but also with Gianluca Vialli, with all the players, even Rossoneri, who wore the blue shirt in those years.
05:49 Yet, at the time of choosing, evaluating and weighing, the former Milan player of the team of the immortals first and of the invincible then, thought first of his family. After many years as a footballer and coach, after many years of profession and sporting passion, years away from the family, here is his family core, completely, absolutely, in the foreground.
06:15 The mission and vocation of the coach remain, but the choice was different.
06:20 Roberto has a relationship of friendship, affection, esteem, which starts from the 90s, when we played together for four years in Sampdoria. He strongly wanted me to go and play there.
06:34 I was already in the federation when he joined as coach of the national team and he wanted me in his staff as a vice, so I will always be grateful to him.
06:50 Even when he had that opportunity, that offer from Arabia, he called me and proposed me to follow him. I thought about it, I also thought about choosing.
07:07 But for many reasons I made a different reasoning, because football gave me a lot, made me win a lot, but also took me away from my family. I lost all the most important stages of my children's growth.
07:23 A few months later, from Arabia, one of my daughters got married, at least that opportunity I did not want to miss. So I decided to stay at home.
07:40 We opened this edition of the podcast "I Racconti Rossoneri" by the title "Tutti Mister", by the subtitle "Tutti Dirigenti". We have declared name and surname, by name and surname, the historical formation of the immortals, but of that Milan of Silvio Berlusconi, coached by Arrigo Sacchi.
07:57 Who remained at the highest level as a coach is him, of course, Carlo Ancelotti. But you can't define him as a clone of Arrigo Sacchi, because certain intensities and certain asperities of the mood of the man of Fusignano,
08:14 did not make part of the character and emotional baggage of Ancelotti, throughout all the twists and turns of his career. Ancelotti, who was perhaps less visionary, but in the end more manager, with a lot of goodwill and a lot of healthy realism, of all the great champions he had the opportunity to coach and lead in his career. Here he is Carlo Ancelotti, second Alberigo Evani.
08:39 Carlo has always been a player, even when he played, he was a coach on the field, he was smart, in terms of football, he knew how to play in all positions, he knew how to give advice to others.
08:54 It is true that he is very different from Mr. Sacchi, but on the character aspect and on the management of the group, because there is a substantial difference that Carlo has made the player at very high levels and Mr. Sacchi does not.
09:14 So certain dynamics, certain dressing room, to understand a player when it is time to give up, when it is time to shoot, he knows it perfectly.
09:25 Mr. Sacchi was a rascal, he always went straight and therefore in the long run the relationship could become heavy, but on the concept of play, on the practicality, on the concept of commanding and playing, being a proactive player and not defensive, they are similar.
09:53 So let's say that the football ideas come from Mr. Sacchi, then it is clear that one footballer goes forward and puts his own, and Carlo has put a lot of his own and also very well.
10:09 [Music]