“My idol was Roger Milla. I still have the image of him dancing after his goal with Cameroon, over 40 years old. For me, it is one of the great moments in the history of the World Cup,” he repeats. Willy Sagnol in some interview, still with the burning eyes The then right back of France was on the pitch of the Munich Olympic, the place he dreams of reaching again as a coach from this amazing Georgiawhen Zinedine Zidane hit the Italian Materazzi in the chest during the final Germany 2006. He stayed at centimeters to win a World Cup. And surpass Milla.
Carlo Ancelotti had arrived to Bayern in June 2016 and faced with a task that seemed Herculean: fill the void, footballing and almost existential, who had left in the position of coach the three consecutive seasons of Pep Guardiola. In his first year at the helm of the Bavarian club, the Italian won the Super Cup and the Bundesligabut fell in the Champions League quarterfinals against the eventual champion Real Madrid. Pep had not managed to lift the Big-eared during his time in Munich and, as is the case with some big clubs, the Bavarian board did not wait long Let’s see what would happen the following year: at the end of September 2017dismissed Carlo after a severe European defeat in the group stage (3-0) against Paris Saint-Germain.
His position was occupied as interim by the one who until then had been his assistant on the bench, Willy Sagnol. An idol of the Munich fans whom the club specifically hired, gossip says, to ‘keep an eye on’ Ancelotti. He lasted a week as first technician, because Jupp Heynckes arrived. Sagnol spent many months in limbo at the Allianz Arena. “I don’t have a specific position,” the Frenchman confessed with resignation during those days of professional ostracism.
Right side with a technical cut, but also very committed, international for France on 58 occasions, Willy had hung up his boots in 2009, after 9 seasons as a Bayern footballer. He started in his early thirties. a coaching career that happened through the inferior categories of his country’s team and then, for the Girondins of Bordeaux, who qualified for the Europa League in 2015 in a notable debut as a club coach. dismissed as gerundive In March 2016, after a few months I managed to I work alongside Ancelotti. Bayern hoped to hire a ‘snitch’, but he didn’t find himBasically, and with the typical friction, Willy and the Italian coach got along well.
Willy did not swallow, like he has never swallowed. Some of those who have shared a career and dressing room with Sagnol say that behind the silent footballer and without pretense that the Munich band ran while the fans He shouted at him “Willy....” there is actually someone undiplomatic, who never keeps quiet about what he thinks is wrong. Shortly before taking over as Carlo’s assistant, in fact, he had dared to criticize iEven the “philosophy” of the Bavarian club: “I see a big problem at Bayern: What “What culture does this club have, what identity?” They say that when he made these statements he was already in negotiations to return to his former team.
In this same Eurocup exploded just before the feat against Portugal due to what he considers to be some unjust attacks from a certain section of the Press and fans. In a country, Georgia, where only get something out of hand one who is on the side of power. “Now some idiots insult me every day for no football reason and I can’t stand it. I am a football coach and it is clear to everyone who plays and who doesn’t, but it is totally my decision. Sorry for this tone, but now I’ve been in a bad mood for a few days.” He said it seriously, without getting excited, but with a lot of breeching. a phlegm which reminded me a lot of Carlo Ancelotti.
That way of letting go pills and then stay as if nothing happened and pragmatism too At the time of choosing a way to play Sagnol inherited them from the season or so he was at the side of the current Real Madrid coach. Son of the spirited football he cultivated as a member of a Bayern that reigned in Germany at will and won a Champions in 2001, Willy loves a attack system which evidently had to to nuance, almost mutate, when he arrived in Georgia. In category C of the Nations League, which he won and then allowed him to play the Euro in the play-offsdominated rivals like Macedonia, Gibraltar and even Bulgaria.
But, just like when Carlo decides to play on the counterattack in a whole Real Madrid, the coach of Spain’s rival has made ana Georgia committed defensively and capable of counterattacking wisely when compete against bigger rivalswhich is almost always in qualifying matches and always in this Eurocup. Willy also knows how to play the games in the pre-match press conferences. As if nothing were happening. “We will only have four days to recover until Sunday, two less than the Spanish, who won on Monday against Albania. But we are just Georgia…”, HE complained after the match against Portugal, without raising his voice or his arms. Pure Ancelotti.
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