"For us Italians the call of home is strong. Feel that something is missing. It has been a heavy year. I begin to feel the weight of distant friends, elderly parents I rarely see. But at my age I only make professional choices. I won't be able to train for 20 years. It is the registry office that says it. It's the hard stuff, the bench. When I return home to Tuscany I feel like a stranger. I have slept thirty nights in the last few years. " Here are the reasons that push Maurizio Sarri back to Italy. Towards Juventus. The Chelsea coach explained them to Vanity Fair in the issue on newsstands from tomorrow.
NAPLES, LOVE DOES NOT CHANGE - Sarri also sends a message to the Napoli fans, who would not like to see him on an "enemy" bench after the three seasons in the Azzurri: "The Neapolitans know the love I feel for them, I have chosen abroad last year not to go on an Italian team. The profession can lead to other paths, the relationship will not change. Loyalty is giving 110% when you are there. What does it mean to be faithful? And if one day the company sends you away? What are you doing: stay true to a wife you divorced from? The last flag was Totti, in the future we will have zero. "
THE SARRISM SON OF THE DEFEATS - Sarri is upset with "the concept of victory at all costs. An extreme that blurs the minds of the fans and some managers, which worries me more. It is sport, it makes no sense. can be unhappy with a second place ". The technician also explains that sarrism “is a way of playing soccer and that's it. It comes from the slaps taken. Evolution is the daughter of defeats. Not just in football. I can't rejoice after a victory. Who wins, remains firm in his convictions. A defeat marks me in longer, makes me critical, moves me one step further. My nephew let me read the facebook page Sarrismo e Rivoluzione. They have fun, I'm anti-social, I don't even have whatsapp ".
THE TECHNICIAN AND THE POLITICS— Speaking of his left-wing political positions, Sarri explains that "there is little in football. Not to find someone against. My drawing is known. Dad was a crane operator at the Italsider of Bagnoli. My grandfather was he was a partisan, saved two American aviators shot down by the Nazis, kept them at home for two months, it is normal for me to have certain ideas, politics today no longer interests me, I see stories of extreme sadness, and from far away Italy is a place that wastes occasions ".
CHAMPIONS AND STYLE— If he really gets to Juve, he will manage so many champions, Cristiano Ronaldo in particular: "There are medium-sized teams of great players or large teams of average players. I work on this. The champion is the one available to the team, otherwise he is just a good player. We are full of phenomenal settlers - even at traffic lights. Fun is contagious if collective. If you have fun alone, boredom comes in 5 minutes. " And who knows if at Juve he will be able to present himself with his legendary suit ... "If the company forced me to go dressed otherwise, I would have to accept. I am fond of the young colleagues of the Primavera championship who wear the tie on unacceptable fields. sincerely make sadness ". Superstitions? "I have less than those who attribute me. I stopped dressing only in black. I have remained in the habit of not setting foot in the field, inside the lines I say, until the game is over. Sooner or later I will also abandon this: already in certain stadiums the benches are on the opposite side of the locker rooms and the lawn I have to step on by force. When you start winning, the good luck ends ".