Lippi Technical Director, Ventura Technical Commissioner. This is how the after Conte wanted by federal president Carlo Tavecchio seems to take shape: a diarchy to relaunch the fortunes of a national team which, pending the outcome of the European Championships in France, is not going through a great technical moment regardless. In fact, the times of the mundial victory in 2006 are very far away (exactly 10 years ago): since then two World Cup flops and a slightly better balance at the European Championships, of which we are in spite of everything vice-champions in charge.
The meeting between the federal president and the 2006 world champion coach is more than an exploratory foretaste: it is a choice with obvious political and technical value. Which brings together the need for rely on a strong figure in the problematic relationship with the clubs and at the same time indisputable from a technical point of view. Lippi won by coloring the darkest historical period of Italian football in blue. Lippi knows perfectly the federal environment and dynamics. In short, Lippi has the perfect profile to coordinate all the national teams, harmonizing men, methods and choices.
Starting with that of Ventura as coach, who if it were entrusted exclusively to him probably would have already abandoned the status of hypothesis to wear the habit of certainty. They were together at Sampdoria, both 30 years old, in 1978. Lippi as a defender, Ventura as Canali's assistant coach first and then Giorgis. They almost met on the Pistoiese bench at the end of the 80s, they faced each other dozens of times, reinforcing the old mutual esteem over time. Not to mention that Ventura has already replaced Conte on a bench.
The day he was introduced in Bari he became Mister Libidine, because that, he said, was the only driving force that drove him to coach. Such an unstoppable impulse that he brought the Apulians to 10th place in Serie A, far beyond the joy given by his predecessor. And if that was lust, who knows what impulse he might express once he arrives in Coverciano on the most prestigious and most impossible bench in Italian football. Lippi and Ventura, two kindred souls who, after Genoa, linked their destiny to the two sides of football in the same city, Turin.
