An excellent coach is as good as a top player in a big club. Often those who manage the team from the bench can really shift the balance not only within their own team but also those of an entire fan base. The striking example has a name, a surname and a team: Jose Mourinho and his Chelsea. The Portuguese coach, much loved around Stanford Bridge, is the real top player (together with the Belgian talent Eden Hazard) of the Blues. And rightly so, the British magazine “Four Four Two”, a title that takes up the most used football tactical module in the world, has put it at the top of its special ranking of the 50 best coaches in the world for 2015.
Italians? Well, they're not doing so badly, testifying that in terms of tactics and, in general, in managing the locker room balance, our players still have something to teach, proving to be highly appreciated even in the land where football was born: England.
In this special ranking we find five Italian technicians and the best placement could only be won Max Allegri, returning from an almost triumphant year in which he was very close to hitting a historic and incredible "triple". The Scudetto, the Italian Cup and the Champions League final against Barça earned coach Allegri entry into the Top 5, behind giants like Mourinho, in fact, Guardiola, Luis Enrique and Diego Pablo Simeone.
Among the Italians we also see Carlo Ancelotti which comes in ninth place. The former Real manager pays for a less than exciting season with the blancos which cost him his sacking at the end of the season. Surprisingly, but not so much, we find three other Italian technicians. And it's neither Vincenzo Montella, surprising with his Fiorentina with fourth place in the league and the semi-final of the Europa League nor Stefano Pioli, a true revelation of the last Serie A together with his Lazio and who perhaps deserved a place even in the top 20. Alla position 29 of ranking of “Four Four Two” we find the coach of Toro Giampiero Ventura, 67 years old, grenade helmsman since 2011. The Genoese coach, who has toured many benches in Italy giving satisfaction to millions of fans, receives the praise of the British magazine after demonstrating all his qualities on the bench again this past season, finishing close to the cup area in Serie A and performing a splendid journey in the last Europa League, stopped only by the much more popular Russians of Zenit. In 44th position here we find another Giampiero. He, Giampiero Gasperini, comes from Grugliasco, a town on the outskirts of Turin but coaches the oldest team in Genoa: the rossoblùs of Genoa. It seems like a strange coincidence: two Giampieros, one from Genoa who coaches one of the two historic clubs in Turin, the other from the province of Turin who leads the glorious Genoa club.
Those who, on the other hand, left Turin disappointed and embittered about the transfer campaign at the beginning of last season, later explaining to the press "that they cannot go to a 100-euro restaurant with only one 10 banknote in their pocket" is the former Juventus player Antonio Conte. The current coach of the national team, 'super skilled' for those who compiled the rankings, who above all highlight his skills as an excellent motivator and perfect man in team management, does not go beyond 34th position. Conte pays above all the confrontation with Allegri in the Champions League. Him, Conte, eliminated by Bayern in the quarterfinals in 2013, and in the group stage in 2014; Allegri in the final at his first attempt with Juve.
