He is making miracles with Bologna Post Thiago Motta and in his career he has (so far) only successes. Yet it is not in the list of the most considered by public and criticism
Vincenzo Italiano He is making miracles with Bologna, he plays a good football to see in profitable, travels at the Bologna cruise speed of Thiago Motta Although, compared to the team qualified for the Champions League at the end of an unforgettable season, he had to face the European labors and do without the pillars of that group: Calafiori, Zirkzee, Saelemaekers And for part of the year too Ferguson. Italian makes miracles, but nobody says it aloud and the truth is that the 1977 class that sits on the bench of the Felsinei is fully right the most underestimated coach of Italian football.
It will be because little inclined to the tactical compromises, or perhaps for the finals lost in series on the Fiorentina bench from where it went away without the fans to tear their clothes, indeed. Or it will be because he has a direct, ruby character, rejoices giving free rein to his emotions, trains without wearing jacket and shirt and does nothing to be different from what it is in reality.
All elements that cannot obscure an almost unique career in a panorama in which even the best, every now and then, have stumbled upon failures and exemptions. Since he landed in professionals, his has been a clear path. Two promotions in a row from 2018 to 2020: first with Trapani from Serie C to B and then with the spice from cadetry to the top flight, first time for the Ligurians saved a year later with a comfortable 15th place.
Jump to Florence and also here only good crops of sowing. Return to Europe that had been missing for five seasons, placements behind the super big names of Italian football and the Italian Cup semifinals (at least) become the home garden: nobody ever with Viola managed to play them for three years in a row before Vincenzo. Of course, even the finals lost in series not without regrets. The goal taken on the counterattack by Bowen at the last second of that against West Ham in Prague and El Kaabi’s paw at the 116 minute of the one against Olympiacos in Athens.
Two Conference League flew away without a true because and who have left the bitter feeling of having thrown the opportunity to write a piece of history in the inheritance. Why? Fundamentalism, for detractors. Simple law of sport where you can also lose, according to others. Those who in Vincenzo Italiano’s purple parable preferred to underline the path without stopping at the accounting of the final goal. The Italian Cup lost against Inter at the Olimpico was also lived as a regret.
In Bologna he welcomed him a bench of those with the sign “attention, danger!” Hanging. He had to make you forget Thiago Motta and the historic qualification for the Champions League, suting the wounds of a market not up to the first time in the Europe of the greats, proposing a modern and functional football, making talents blossom that only a few months ago were bets. In short, do everything well and quickly. However, it ends, the Italian Bologna hit all the missions that had been delivered. And, therefore, the doubt grows: is the most underestimated coach in Italy?
