Il posto del Tasso

A.C. MILAN OFFICIAL

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00:00 Always in his place, the pace.

00:02 In his place when it was about getting on the right track,

00:06 at the right time, on the right track to start.

00:11 The kiss cross for Marco Van Basten.

00:13 But be careful, the same talent, the same place, in his place,

00:18 when the career is over.

00:20 A career of the highest level, an agonistic career made of one scudetto after the other.

00:25 At that point it was about doing another job, reinventing another life.

00:29 Always in football, but always in his place.

00:32 Mauro Tassotti as coach brought Milan back to the spring team

00:36 to win the tournament in Viareggio after many, many, many years of waiting.

00:41 And he did it with Franco Baresi, head of the youth sector,

00:45 at home, with the boys at home, with the young people of the Rossonera youth academy,

00:49 with many boys who have always known what Milan was,

00:52 because Tassotti had taught them.

00:56 Mauro always in his place, also and especially when it was about being the coach.

01:01 A coach who was something else than noisy,

01:04 indeed much more silent and complicit than anything else.

01:07 Those looks with another of the immortals, Carlo Ancelotti,

01:11 the understanding of the team's work, the looks, the crossed eyes,

01:15 because Mauro, being in his place, has always known the rifts,

01:19 the corners, the secrets of Milanello, the chemistry of Milanello,

01:23 and he used all this to convince a player after another

01:26 that the coach's choices were the right ones.

01:28 A certain work, a work in the shadows,

01:31 a work done at the right time and in the right place,

01:34 even if what then bounced in the eyes of everyone

01:37 under the light of the spotlight of the great football was the work on Marcos Cafu,

01:42 when the yellow-red pendulum arrived in the European Champion Milan in the summer of 2003.

01:49 In that period, perhaps in the capital, there was a little smile.

01:52 In their opinion, Milan had not understood that Cafu's career had now come to an end.

01:57 "This is to be seen", the touch would have said.

02:00 There was also the theme of putting Marcos in those who were the delicate,

02:04 solid, consolidated defensive mechanisms of Milan,

02:07 but the touch thought about this too,

02:09 to do a great job for Milan and to extend the career of the pendulum with other titles,

02:14 so that it expressed its offensive talent,

02:18 and that it put its defensive vocation also at the service of the team,

02:22 when the ball was in the hands of the opponents.

02:24 The touch thought about this too, always in its place.

02:28 But here are Mauro Tassotti's direct questions and answers to the podcast "I racconti rosso neri".

02:35 Let's start with the role, the coach's status.

02:38 A choice never easy as a truce.

02:41 As a coach, the touch has brought Milan back after so many years to victory in the Viareggio tournament

02:47 and has made the coach worthy, sober and proud.

02:50 What is the profession of the coach in general?

02:53 And what did Mauro interpret personally?

02:56 I didn't think of being a coach when I was playing, when I was young,

03:01 but when you get close to the end of your career, you get attached to it,

03:06 because this has always been my world.

03:09 Since I was a kid I always had a ball in my hand,

03:13 but when I turned 37 I was about to quit.

03:17 And you miss it, you know you will miss it, so you get attached to something.

03:22 I felt like doing the courses already when I was still playing,

03:26 what I could do, because then the last one you have already quit.

03:31 I had the opportunity to train immediately at the Primavera del Mille,

03:35 that year the coach was changed, when I quit,

03:39 I was entrusted to the Primavera, which is perhaps the most important team,

03:44 but also the one that resembles the real team,

03:48 because the players are already mature and you can work on certain things,

03:54 on the organization, on certain principles.

03:58 I also tested my gym to understand if it was what I wanted to do,

04:04 because sometimes you start and then you change,

04:08 but I liked it a lot, I felt good, it was a good experience.

04:13 Then after a few years there was the opportunity to become a coach in the second team,

04:19 and so my coach career developed.

04:23 Mauro Tasotti was a symbol, a star of the immortals with Enrico Sacchi,

04:28 and at the same time one of the invincible with Fabio Capello.

04:32 All of you immortals, is the question, have you become coaches or managers?

04:37 Especially coaches, but some important managers too.

04:41 It is a question that Tasso has heard hundreds of times,

04:44 but there is a real reason for the fact that that team had a future in football in general,

04:49 and not only in the specific field. What is that great reason?

04:53 We had great teachers because we had an extraordinary company behind us,

04:58 first of all the president, Dr. Galliani, D'Ariedo, Braida, Silvano Ramaccioni,

05:06 people who were close to us.

05:08 And then we had two coaches, I think they signed us first, Lidl,

05:13 and then Sacchi, then Capello, people who signed us in that period,

05:19 because we lived many things together, many victories, even defeats,

05:24 but we spent hours and hours together discussing, doing, struggling,

05:31 rejoicing, crying, trying to understand how to do things.

05:37 And that's why I think, someone chose the path of management,

05:42 someone chose the path of the coach, but surely people signed us.

05:46 Then the role of the vice-coach, you were great in this too.

05:50 We are used to see the vice-coach next to the coach,

05:54 next to the coach, on the pitch, on the bench.

05:58 We often hear the vice-coach talking, talking, saying, saying things,

06:01 suggesting, still suggesting, putting so many things during the event,

06:05 during the match, in the ear of the head coach,

06:08 who then chooses whether to follow and put it into practice,

06:11 or whether to listen and that's it.

06:13 But the fact remains that it is a very important role and very involved,

06:16 in the mechanism of a team, a key role.

06:19 The staff have changed over time.

06:22 Once there was only the vice-coach, who was the goalkeeper coach,

06:26 when we started, he did a bit of everything.

06:28 There was almost the athletic coach, which was not there yet.

06:31 Now the staff has expanded, because the rosters have become huge,

06:36 there are 30 players, before there were 15,

06:39 in short, everything is a bit different.

06:42 Everyone interprets it a bit according to their person,

06:47 according to what they think, and it must clearly be in tune

06:52 with the coach, with the manager, with the head coach,

06:56 because if the head coach does not want to hear a thousand things in the ears,

07:02 or only a few, in short, you have to make them arrive less,

07:07 those you consider more important.

07:10 It's not always easy, in short, then there is the relationship with the players,

07:13 the players often talk to the coaches in the second half,

07:16 to get messages from the coach in the first half,

07:21 in short, all this is a beautiful profession.

07:24 Many times I was asked why I did not become a coach,

07:28 why I never left, because I did not find a better place

07:32 than to stay in Milan.

07:36 I was fine here, I'm fine here, I've always been fine in Milan,

07:41 in Milan, when I was no longer in my role, I did it,

07:46 I left, I went with Sheva to the Ukrainian national team,

07:50 then we went to Genoa, in our last experience,

07:55 in short, at that moment the roles were changed,

07:59 and it's not that I did not feel good,

08:05 I was following, at that moment I was following the young people in Milan,

08:10 who were in loan, and I was relating, let's say,

08:13 on their maturity, on how they were doing,

08:17 but it was also a bit the passage of society,

08:20 so there was not a great attention,

08:24 I understood that it was a role that at that time

08:28 was not so important for society,

08:32 and consequently also for me, in short,

08:35 and at that point I decided to follow,

08:38 Sheva offered me this opportunity,

08:41 and I took advantage of this opportunity,

08:45 and I went to Ukraine with the national team,

08:47 it was a great experience.

08:49 Mauro Tassotti and Carlo Ancelotti,

08:51 a coach and a vice, certainly from the formal and administrative point of view,

08:55 but in reality two teammates, two friends, two accomplices,

08:59 because if it is true that today the coach and the vice talk a lot,

09:02 especially during the games,

09:04 of the duo Ancelotti-Tassotti, of the ticket Ancelotti-Tassotti,

09:08 we all remember the looks, the immediate understanding,

09:11 which was worth more than a thousand words.

09:14 Carlo, even before as a player,

09:16 because he had come from Rome,

09:19 I came from Rome, he had come from Rome,

09:21 he loved Rome madly, Carlo,

09:23 and also his poor wife,

09:27 she loved Rome madly, Luisa,

09:29 maybe even more than Carlo,

09:31 and every now and then it happened to speak in Roman,

09:35 so with him, even on the field,

09:38 even when we played,

09:42 I had a great harmony with him,

09:44 then the roads divided us,

09:46 he went abroad,

09:48 I stayed at home, let's say,

09:50 because at home I was fine.

09:52 [Music]

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