In the week that anticipates Juve-Udinese, Andrea Stramaccioni, who led the Inter team that beat Juventus at Juventus Stadium for the first time in history, gave a long interview to Il Corriere dello Sport. Here are the most interesting parts:
We arrive, almost duly, at that important step in the career of Strama, the 1-3 against Juventus in Turin.
“If I remember? Sure. It was the first defeat of the Juventus of records, the first at the Juventus Stadium. It was a match won with personality, which allowed us to get one point away from them. Then the second round was very unlucky, we counted up to sixteen injuries. Certain numbers in football are quickly forgotten. Yet we did made a record for Inter with ten wins in a row and ten away wins.”
In that game, there was also a controversy with Marotta.
“Given that we have cleared it up and that we had a pleasant trip together, he told me that he did not intend to be offensive. He said a sentence off the record in a delicate evening and found it in bad taste. Afterwards he explained everything to me and we closed the controversy. On Saturday I will greet him as I have done on other occasions. Between Inter and Juve it is always a challenge in tense atmosphere. There’s rivalry, but it’s the beauty of the sport. They are two fans that will never love each other.”
He then makes a hint about his past with Inter and the feelings that he has towards the Nerazzurri.
“I like to speak with facts. The call from Udinese for a coach like me that ended the last part of the experience with Inter badly is the greatest testimony of esteem. Pozzo has focused on me to handle the project of an important club, this is a club that does not make premature or impromptu decisions. Of Inter I keep a positive memory, doing 55 games on the Inter bench is a dream. And I have always had and still have the affection of the fans, even in the very negative second part of the championship, it was fantastic. People have understood the situation of great emergency we experienced. My common thread with Inter ends with the end of Moratti’s era. I understand that when a new owner arrives he wants to make other choices . I won’t say that I was sent away by Thohir, but when Moratti announced the decision after the defeat against Lazio it was a moment of great sorrow. He said that he would not only sell part of the shares, but the majority stake. There, I realized that my experience was over. I was one of his creations, he made me sign a three-year contract, he repeated that he would have continued with me.”
On Sensi and Moratti, two presidents who have given so much to Stramaccioni.
“The Sensi family, I can not do anything but keep in my heart. First Franco and then much more Rosella marked my story at Roma. I remember the first time I spoke with Rosella it was to keep me at all costs because there were advances from Fiorentina and Inter. I became a part of the negotiation for Burdisso, Inter asked to set me free and to have Verre to give a discount on the defender. It was a special situation for Pradè.”
Source: fcinternews.it
He is a good coach despite the results that kept dropping after so many injury players. His tactic not really has soul, still need to learn btw. A good coach need to maximize his player abilities then find suitable tactic not only to stick with a scheme.
Memories of goldfish, and critical thinking skills of teaspoons.
Lack of experience? i dont know about that.. but the most thing that make me dont like him are the fact that he let Branca and the management interfere with his job as a coach with the decision to not play Sneijder at all because Sneijder doesnt want to cut salary..
The lack of experience was NOT the issue. Look at Montella or Simeone as an example.
The problem with him was the fact that he let Morratti interfere in his job. I hate Mazzarri but a coach like Mazzarri will never ever accept a transfer like Rocchi. Stramaccioni also stuck with the same trainer for the second season and caused so many injuries. He caused us to have the worst record in decades, yet I see fans on here whining and wanting him back.
He might be a good coach one day, but only then he deserves to take the job as an Inter manager.
Bring him back !!
His tactical approach to attack was sublime, yet he lacked experience on how to tighten up the defence.. if he learns the balance between attack and defence then probably he would be one of the best coaches in the world. However, this would take him at least 2 years of experience to learn most of the tactics used by coaches in serie A.
well, seems that most of people think that he only lacked of experiences.
but unfortunately, experience is very important.
talent without experience would be useless.
and having great talent will not made you automatically ‘got’ the experiences as the time goes by.
so strama is still long way to the top. he might be a successful one, but he also might be nothing.
he’ll be back…i hope 🙂
Strama was just unlucky. Hope he will back someday
I think Strama is a great coach that had his “try-out” under the wrong circumstances and lacked a bit of experience. Our squad was by far the worst at that time in these few years, and it makes me think, if he managed to be 9th with that squad, how far Mazzari would have come with Rocchi as a striker and Schelotto and such being starting players. I hope he does well with Udinese(not too well tho, just enough to keep out of Inter’s way).
Be our Sir Alex
STRAMA is a young and wise coach ,that lacked available and good players and a good medical staff (16 injuries), he has tactics and personality that will make him a great coach in te coming future, and his only problem was he lacked experience at the time inter hired him, other than that i think he is a great coach!!
FORZA INTER, gd luck STRAMA and hope one day in the near future you’ll be back at inter’s bench
I think Injuries are mainly his faults and not of his medical staff. The coach is the one who dictates training methods, “hopefully” pick his medical staff, and make decisions about recovery times and players management. This was his biggest problem at inter and this tells a lot about his lack of experience as a coach. Again he is a very good tactician, not afraid to loose. On that regard he is much better than the one “who shall not be named”. but he is just not ready to be coaching a top team like inter.