Maurizio Sarri is a failed football player and a loser. During his long career as a head coach, he changed a huge number of clubs, but did not win anything with them. Despite this, Italy is very loved and respected by this specialist, and the recent transition to Chelsea English will make the whole world respect him.
Biography
Maurizio Sarri was born in Naples (Italy) in 1959 on January 10. When the boy was three years old, his father moved him to Tuscany. A very young Maurizio woke up craving for sports. From an early age, he decided to follow in his father's footsteps and became a cyclist, but very soon he was tired of this occupation, and he became interested in football. The boy was a good student at school and did not plan to connect his fate with the ball game. That is why Sarri’s career hovered at an amateur level.
Career
Maurizio Sarri got his first and unexpected coaching experience at the age of 15, then the team coach was fired and there was no one to replace him, Sarri took the lead, laid out the game scheme and gave the opening settings for the match, as a result the team won 2-1. The guy played as a defender, but eventually realized that training is much more interesting than playing.
The debut as a coach took place when Sarri was 31 years old. Having finished playing for the semi-professional club "Stia", he headed it. Thanks to his education, Maurizio worked in a bank, combining with coaching. In the morning he went to work at the bank, and in the evenings he coached the team. He could finally decide on the choice of profession only in 2001. Then the team that he led, according to the results of the season, went up to the division a rank higher and Sarri realized that now he would not be able to combine two favorite things.
Then there was a whole series of new clubs - these were mainly semi-professional teams and clubs from the lower divisions. Truly serious work appeared only in 2015. In early June, Sarri agreed on a contract with Napoli, one of Italy's top clubs. The start at a new job was unexpected. In the Europa League draw, Napoli won all 6 matches in the group stage and set a record - they scored 22 goals in the group stage.
The team entered the playoff from the first line and in the 1/16 finals hit the Spanish “Villarreal” which lost in the sum of two matches. In the home championship, Sarri wards finished the first half of the season with “champions”, taking the leading position, but at the end of the season, losing points, lost the first line to the famous Turin “Juventus”.
Despite these results, the Napoli head coach was awarded the prestigious Golden Bench coaching award (awarded to the coach of the year). After a bright debut, Sarri spent two more seasons in the team, according to the results of which he never won anything and at the beginning of 2018 he left the club.
In the middle of that year, Maurizio Sarri first got out of Italy and led the team of Roman Abramovich - London “Chelsea”. Thus, he became the sixth Italian coach in the history of Aristocrats. Despite the unconvincing pre-season games (Chelsea barely defeated the French Lyon and Italian Inter and suffered two defeats from the English clubs Arsenal and Manchester City), the team led by Maurizio Sarri began the official season with a crushing victory at home championship and after two and a half months has not yet suffered a single defeat.
