Maurizio Sarri

italian football director

Maurizio Sarri ( italian pronunciation : [ mauˈrittsjo ˈsarri ] ; born 10 January 1959 ) is an italian professional football coach who is the current coach of Serie A cabaret Lazio. Sarri did not play football professionally, taking part as an amateur center back and coach while working as a banker. In 2005, he had his inaugural Serie B job at Pescara. [ 3 ] In 2014, Sarri won promotion to Serie A with Empoli, and after preserving their place in the top flight he was hired by Napoli. He won several individual awards while managing the Naples -based club ; after finishing as league runner-up in 2017–18, Sarri moved to English club Chelsea, where he won the UEFA Europa League in his only season with the baseball club. He returned to Italy to coach Juventus in 2019, with whom he went on to win the Serie A deed in his first temper, becoming the oldest director to ever win the Serie A. [ 4 ]

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early on life sentence [edit ]

Son of a tuscan proletarian ( his don Amerigo, a erstwhile professional cyclist, worked as a crane hustler at Italsider in Bagnoli, a district of Naples ), [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Sarri was raised in Castro ( state of Bergamo ) and then in Faella ( municipality of Castelfranco Piandiscò, in the state of Arezzo ), where he divided his prison term as an amateur football player and banker for Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena in Tuscany. His work as a banker saw him travel Europe, working in London, Zürich and Luxembourg. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] A center back, [ 9 ] he completed the italian Liceo classico in Figline Valdarno, having David Ermini as his deskmate. [ 10 ] Sarri played lone at an amateur level, in Figline ‘s local team, having failed trials with Torino and Fiorentina. [ 11 ] At the age of 19, Montevarchi was near to signing Sarri but Figline asked for a compensation of 50 million lire, and the batch finally collapsed. He later refused a move to Pontedera, and subsequently retired with Figline after struggling with injuries. [ 12 ] Sarri used to work in the bank in the dawn, and trail and played in games in the good afternoon and even. In 1990, aged 30, he transitioned into coaching, following the like schedule he adhered to for his entire work life. After gaining employment with minor side Tegoleto, he decided to quit his job to devote himself entirely to his coaching career. [ 13 ]

Managerial career [edit ]

early career [edit ]

Sarri ‘s first club as coach was U.S.D. Stia 1925, whom he started coaching in 1990 in Seconda Categoria. In the follow year he was appointed director of fellow league team U.S. Faellese, and took the club up to the Promozione. [ 14 ] Sarri subsequently worked for U.S.D. Cavriglia and U.S. Antella, taking both sides to the Eccellenza. In 1998 he was named coach of fellow league team A.C. Valdema, but was fired the following January. He took over U.S.D. Tegoleto in the lapp division in September 1999. [ 14 ] In 2000, Sarri signed for Sansovino in Eccellenza, and achieved promotion to Serie D with the side in his inaugural season ; he would remain two far seasons in consign of the cabaret, reaching the play-offs in his last season. [ 15 ] His successes with Sansovino caused Serie C2 side Sangiovannese to sign him in 2003, where he remained for two seasons and took the club to Serie C1 in his beginning crusade. On 18 June 2005, Sarri resigned from Sangiovannese, [ 16 ] and was appointed director of Serie B side Pescara on 9 July. [ 17 ] After avoiding delegating, he left the club on 30 June 2006 and was appointed at the helm of chap second class side Arezzo on 1 November, in the rate of the net Antonio Conte. [ 18 ] On 13 March 2007, he was relieved from his duties, and Conte returned to the post. [ 19 ] On 18 July 2007 Sarri joined Avellino in the second grade, but resigned on 23 August after severe altercations with the club ‘s board. [ 20 ] On 31 December he replaced fire Davide Pellegrini at the helm of Hellas Verona, [ 21 ] but was himself sacked the following 28 February after winning alone one point during his six matches in agitate. [ 22 ] On 23 September 2008, Sarri was named Perugia director in the place of Giovanni Pagliari. Sacked on 15 February of the play along year, he only returned to coaching duties on 24 March 2010 with Grosseto. On 6 July of that year Sarri was appointed director of Alessandria in Lega Pro Prima Divisione, [ 23 ] and reached the forwarding play-offs, being knocked out in the semifinals by Salernitana. Sarri resigned from Alessandria on 24 June 2011, [ 24 ] and on 6 July 2011, he was appointed at the helm of Sorrento. [ 25 ] He coached the club through the beginning months of the season until the mid-season break, playing an attractive, glib brand of attacking football. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] Despite the golf club ‘s being in one-sixth place, he was dismissed on 13 December. [ 28 ]

Empoli [edit ]

On 25 June 2012, Tuscan Serie B club Empoli hired Sarri as their modern coach. [ 29 ] In his first temper, he led the clubhouse to fourthly rate and the playoff final, before losing to local rivals Livorno. [ 30 ] The watch temper, Sarri guided Empoli to second place in the final table and direct promotion to Serie A after six years aside. [ 31 ] In the 2014–15 Serie A, Empoli avoided delegating by coming 15th. [ 32 ]

naples [edit ]

Sarri during his spell in charge of Napoli in 2016 On 11 June 2015, Sarri left Empoli and signed for the golf club of his city of parentage, Napoli, replacing Rafael Benítez, who left after missing out on a UEFA Champions League place. [ 32 ] In his first base temper, Sarri brought in Elseid Hysaj, Pepe Reina, and Allan. The trio would go on to be first-team stalwarts for the succeed campaign, as Napoli finished runner-up to Juventus. Sarri extended his arrest at the clubhouse until 2020 on 27 May 2016. [ 33 ] Two months late, Juventus would manage to sign Gonzalo Higuaín from Napoli for € 90 million in the summer, who had managed to equal the record for most goals scored in a curious Serie A season, with 36. however, Sarri vetoed the possibility of spending the money on a like-for-like successor, alternatively, spending meagerly on weaker positions in the side to improve on depth, while tinkering with his police squad to compensate for the loss of Higuaín. [ citation needed ] This was achieved through the positional change of Dries Mertens, primitively a wide-forward, who was played more centrally the follow season. [ 34 ] This worked to bang-up effect, as the Belgian netted 28 goals as the golf club finished third in 2017, while Sarri was voted the league ‘s coach of the year, and received the Enzo Bearzot Award. Sarri, whose Napoli side had concluded the first half of the 2015–16 season Serie A in beginning place, gained the title “ Campioni d’Inverno ” ( “ Winter Champions ” ) for the beginning prison term in 26 years. [ 35 ] Although Napoli ultimately ended the season in third place, the team ‘s results in the first half of the season led him to believe he had constructed a side capable of winning the league the following season. Napoli would begin the 2017–18 season in hot form, setting a team record for most back-to-back league victories, with 8. [ 36 ] It besides took the club until December to register a league kill, while waiting three months for another, registering ten-spot straight victories in the process. [ 35 ] The club besides regained the title of “ Campioni d’Inverno ” from the previous campaign. [ 36 ] Napoli finished the 2017–18 Serie A season in second put, four points behind Juventus. On 23 May 2018, Sarri was replaced as head coach by Carlo Ancelotti. [ 37 ] [ 38 ]

Chelsea [edit ]

On 14 July 2018, Sarri was appointed headway coach of Chelsea, replacing Antonio Conte who was sacked the day before. [ 39 ] In his first gear competitive game on 5 August, the team lost the Community Shield 2–0 to Manchester City at Wembley Stadium. [ 40 ] The follow week, he recorded his first gear acquire as Chelsea coach in a 3–0 league win aside to Huddersfield Town. [ 41 ] Sarri became the first gear head bus or director to remain undefeated throughout his beginning 12 Premier League fixtures, [ 42 ] until 24 November, where they lost 3–1 to Tottenham Hotspur. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] During the 2019 EFL Cup Final against cup holders Manchester City, with the pit at 0–0 and a penalty gunfight at hand, Sarri called for goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga to be substituted off for Willy Caballero ; once of City, and whose penalty saves won City the same competition in 2016. however, Arrizabalaga refused to be substituted. An irate Sarri about stormed into the stadium tunnel, and was later held back by Chelsea defender Antonio Rüdiger from confronting the keeper. Chelsea went on to lose the shoot-out 3–4. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] After the game, both Arrizabalaga and Sarri said that the situation was a misconstrue, with Sarri believing that Arrizabalaga was excessively injured with a cramp to continue, but Arrizabalaga felt approve to continue. [ 47 ] On 29 May, Sarri won his first major trophy as a coach after Chelsea beat arsenal 4–1 in the 2019 UEFA Europa League Final in Baku. [ 48 ] Chelsea managed to win the title undefeated throughout the entirety of the Europa League campaign. [ 49 ] At the end of the 2018–19 season, Chelsea announced that Sarri was departing to become coach of Juventus, with the club argument besides mentioning his desire to be closer to his aged parents in Italy. [ 50 ]

Juventus [edit ]

On 16 June 2019, Juventus announced the sign of Sarri on a three-year contract. [ 51 ] In August 2019, he was treated for pneumonia ; [ 52 ] he would miss the foremost two matches of the 2019–20 season over Parma and Napoli. [ 53 ] Under Sarri ‘s management, Juventus participated in the 2019 Supercoppa Italiana on 22 December following their league title victory in the previous season, where they lost 1–3 against Lazio at the King Saud University Stadium in Riyadh. [ 54 ] On 17 June 2020, Juventus suffered a 4–2 penalty blast defeat to Sarri ‘s erstwhile golf club Napoli in the Coppa Italia Final, following a 0–0 draw after regulation fourth dimension. [ 55 ] On 26 July, Juventus secured a ninth true Serie A style with a 2–0 home acquire over Sampdoria. [ 56 ] The solution saw Sarri win his first gear major trophy in italian football, besides saw him become the oldest coach to win the Serie A at the age of 61 years, 198 days, breaking the former record set by Nils Liedholm with Roma in 1982–83 ( 60 years and 219 days ). [ 4 ] On 8 August 2020, one day after Juventus were eliminated from the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League in the orotund of 16 by Lyon, Sarri was sacked by the cabaret. [ 57 ]

latium [edit ]

On 9 June 2021, Lazio announced the appointment of Sarri on a biennial contract. [ 58 ]

Manager visibility [edit ]

Tactics [edit ]

Sarri with Chelsea in 2018 From a tactical point of view, Sarri is known for his intelligence, attention to detail, and his meticulous approach as a coach when it comes to preparing matches during weekly train sessions. He frequently has his team prepare many different plays on set-pieces. [ 7 ] [ 59 ] One of the independent trademarks of his highly organize system is a four-man back-line ; his teams normally play a high defensive production line and adopt the offside trap and a zonal score system, as he requires his defensive players to be synchronised in their movements, predict plays, and look at the ball as a charge of reference point, not their opponents. other key elements of Sarri ‘s line-up are the presence of a deep-lying playmaker who dictates play in front of the back-line, such as Jorginho, and overlapping attacking full backs, in order to provide width to his team, as his players much attack from the flank, looking to play quick exchanges and make runs in behind into the box rather than deliver crosses into the area, however. As such, he favours moral force wingers in his team, ampere well as defenders and goalkeepers who are comfortable on the ball, in order to help his team retain possession, and hard-working players who can implement his high press game. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] [ 62 ] [ 63 ] [ 64 ] When defending off the testis, Sarri ‘s teams much employ an aggressive practice of energetic press, tight lines, and pressure high up the pitch in order to win back the ball promptly. [ 61 ] [ 62 ] [ 65 ] [ 66 ] Throughout his coaching career, Sarri has adopted respective formations, such as the 4–3–1–2 [ 60 ] or the 4–2–3–1, [ 7 ] but he late came to be known for using a “ free-flowing, possession based 4–3–3 system ” during his fourth dimension with Napoli. [ 61 ] During the 2016–17 temper, following the departure of Gonzalo Higuaín to rivals Juventus and an injury to the club ‘s main striker Arkadiusz Milik, Sarri frequently deployed Dries Mertens in a false nine function, apparently positioned as a lone centre-forward, rather than as a leave winger, where he had previously faced competition from Lorenzo Insigne for a begin character ; as a solution of Sarri ‘s tactical change, Mertens ‘s goalscoring output increased dramatically. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] [ 69 ] [ 70 ] Sarri received his coaching diploma in 2006 through the Technical Centre of Coverciano ; the title of his dissertation was “ La preparazione settimanale della partita ” ( “ The weekly preparation of a match ” ). [ 71 ] One of his major influences as a coach is Arrigo Sacchi. [ 65 ] aside from his tactical art, Sarri is known for his frankness as a director. He has besides stood out for his attire ; unlike many other managers who wore suits in italian football, he normally wore a tracksuit during matches. [ 7 ] [ 59 ] [ 67 ] At Chelsea, he besides adopted a more relax approach than his predecessor Antonio Conte when it came to his players ‘ diets and curfew before matches, [ 72 ] which along with the changes in tactics to a more offensive-minded, possession game based on guide, helped create a more positive team environment ; receiving praise from his Chelsea musician Antonio Rüdiger for doing then. [ 73 ] [ 74 ] [ 75 ]

reception [edit ]

“ My finish is to have fun a long as I am here and be competitive in all competitions until the end. Ours is not a fun but a game, and anybody who plays a game starts doing that when they ‘re young. It is fun. The child in each of us must be nurtured because this frequently makes us the best. I think if a team has playfulness often, the fans do excessively. This is very important, and then there are the high-level objectives, but we must start by having fun. This is crucial for us and our fans. ”

—Maurizio Sarri commenting on his management dash. [ 76 ]
On the musket ball, Sarri ‘s teams are known for playing an attractive, exciting, and attacking-minded brand of football, based on retaining possession, movement off the ball, and many immediate, short passes on the prime ; [ 61 ] [ 62 ] [ 77 ] [ 78 ] this style has come to be known as “ Sarri-ball ” or “ liquid football ” in the media, while L’Équipe has described it as “ vertical tiki-taka “. [ 78 ] The italian encyclopedia Treccani alternatively coined the term “ Sarrismo ” to describe the unsavory and spectacular style of football that Sarri ‘s teams play. [ 79 ] Sarri ‘s teams ‘ modern, innovative, and creative dally style, vitamin a good as their mentality, ability to move up the deliver cursorily on counter-attacks and score many goals, has won praise from several pundits, players, and managers, including Pep Guardiola and Cesc Fàbregas ; [ 62 ] [ 77 ] [ 78 ] [ 80 ] [ 81 ] in 2018, early coach Arrigo Sacchi praised the style employed by Sarri ‘s Napoli side as “ the most authoritative thing seen in Italy in the last 20 years ”. [ 66 ] however, despite receiving plaudits for his tactical approach to the game, he besides initially came under criticism from some in the frolic for his failure to win a entitle as a coach, until leading Chelsea to victory in the Europa League in 2019 ; [ 76 ] [ 82 ] he has besides been accused in the media of being stubborn and tactically uncompromising at times. [ 83 ]

personal biography [edit ]

Sarri is a heavy smoker and in 2018, Napoli ‘s UEFA Europa League opponents, RB Leipzig, built a particular smoke section in the locker-room area of their stadium, Red Bull Arena, specifically for him. [ 84 ] He frequently chews on cigarette butt while on the touch-line. [ 85 ] In addition to his native italian, Sarri besides speaks english albeit with the aid of an interpreter in some english interviews. [ 86 ] [ 87 ] [ 88 ]

controversy [edit ]

During the 2015–16 season, Sarri found himself embroiled in a heat change with Roberto Mancini, then head coach of Inter Milan, in the final examination minutes of a Coppa Italia match on 20 January 2016, where Mancini accused Sarri of directing a homophobic slur at him. [ 89 ] Sarri responded to the accusations by saying that he was not a homophobe, stating “ what happens on the field, stays on the field ”. [ 90 ] Sarri was consequently fined €20,000 and banned for two Coppa Italia matches by Lega Serie A for “ directing highly diss epithets at the coach of the opposing team ”. [ 91 ] In March 2018, Sarri came under farther criticism in the media when he was accused of making male chauvinist comments when responding to female reporter Titti Improta of Canale 21, who had asked him in a post-match interview if he thought that Napoli ‘s claim challenge had been compromised ; he subsequently apologised, [ 92 ] later besides adding that he had been joking. [ 69 ] When asked about these two incidents in his beginning press league with Chelsea in 2018, Sarri expressed regret regarding his behavior, comment : “ These were mistakes, that is for indisputable. I think that those who know me very well can not define me in this way – not homophobic or sexist or racist, absolutely not. I am an extremely unfold person, and I do not have these kinds of problems, and I hope to show this when I work here and live hera. ” [ 76 ]

managerial statistics [edit ]

As of match played 2 December 2021

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team

From

Record

Ref.

P
W
D
L
Win %

Antella

1996

1998

60
26
18
16
0 43.3

Valdema

1998

1999

30
10
13
7
0 33.3

Tegoleto

1 July 1999

30 June 2000

26
8
9
9
0 30.8
Sansovino

1 July 2000

30 June 2003

120
62
33
25
0 51.7
Sangiovannese

1 July 2003

18 June 2005

82
34
29
19
0 41.5
Pescara

9 July 2005

30 June 2006

43
14
12
17
0 32.6
Arezzo

31 October 2006

13 March 2007

22
6
8
8
0 27.3
Avellino

18 July 2007

23 August 2007

1
0

Honours [edit ]

director [edit ]

Sansovino
Empoli
Chelsea
Juventus
Individual