Interviewed by today’s edition of the newspaper The Sports Gazettethe former Romanian defender Christian Chivu he spoke about the new Juventus coach, Thiago Motta, his teammate at Inter: “Thiago knows what it means to win, first as a player and then as a coach. And he also knows that Juve had to make the compromises, focusing on young players to meet certain financial needs: so he can be perfect. And someone like that will never think that his is a leap too big, or made too soon. Already at Inter I saw a player with clear ideas in understanding the simplicity of modern football. In simple things he found the right way to do concrete things that were useful to the team. And I asked myself: how could Barcelona give up on someone like that?”, his words.
Will Thiago Motta play the same football at Juve as he did at Bologna? “Same identity and playing concepts. But he knows that a coach is good when he can read the characteristics of the players well. And, if necessary, adapt to make the most of them”, the former Inter Primavera coach responded to the Rosea. He commented on the maestro José Mourinho and his teachings: “The importance of personality and the right authority to manage a group, a dressing room”.