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His
career as a coach started with an accident in his back which didn't
let him go on playing but it gave hime the chance to begin this new
activity where he had exactly walked his first steps as a player:
the juvenile field of Sampdoria, from beginners to pupils, from
Under 18 to the major team as an athletic trainer and an assistant
coach. Then he came in contact with two people who influenced his
career: Paolo Mantovani and Claudio Nassi. His collaboration with
Sampdoria finished when he began to train on his own in minor teams,
such as Albenga, Rapallo, Entella, Spezia, Centese, but as time went
by he realized that he awastrainingaĆN but he awasn't working
as a coachaĆN. In Pistoia he found a president, Maltinti, and a
young sport manager, Borgo, wishing to complete a project: restoring
a football society which had played in the Italian major
championship but actually reduced to the amateurs' one. Here in
Pistoia he succeeded in aworking as a coachaĆN because he started
to give his own personal features to the team both in creating a
playing style and in organizing the team itself. Consequently, first
victories came and he began to restore the society and to promote
footballers. In the following years, he met other presidents (Zamparini,
Semeraro, Moroni, Cellino) and managers with whom he always built an
absolutely reliable and clear relationship about the aims: these
elements let him go on aworking as a coachaĆN. Then he went back
to Genoa in order to work in Sampdoria thanks to the president
Entico Mantovani's strong will. He wanted ato restore Sampdoria,
to re-establish the basement for the ascentaĆN, that's a job
suitable for him so he didn't surrender. The elements to work on
this project had to be created together with managers, coach and
footballers, and he was really aware of it. He understood that
something was going bad but he carried on working even though
nothing was arising this time. Was more time necessary? More
availability from the whole society? Less chatting and more real
action? More reliability and coherence? We will never know that. At
the end only one point to the promotion was missing but the worst
aspect was that the elements to go on working, observing aims and
expectations, werw missing, too. Injured in his pride but not beaten,
he left his place to other people in silence, as usual
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