Calcio Debate: Juventus' Road To Destruction Almost Complete(
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What has happened to the great Juventus?
The demise of Italy’s most successful club is fast becoming a twenty-first century version of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. All the Bianconeri players and fans are being led down a road of destruction by a group of incompetent pipe-playing directors.
With the plague engulfing Turin the Pied Piper’s latest tune, rather than drive away the rats, has instead attracted yet another one. The rat’s name? Alberto Zaccheroni.
While it is true that Juventus had very few coaches to turn to as replacement for Ciro Ferrara, it is astonishing that Jean Claude Blanc, the Elkanns, and all the decision-makers, genuinely believe that Zaccheroni is the saviour.
This is a coach who has been unable to find a job since February 2007 when he was sacked by Torino. The 56-year-old’s spell with the Granata lasted less than half a year. Prior to Torino, Zaccheroni had also been unemployed for two years.
Thus, Juventus are pinning their hopes on a coach who has only been in work for five months of the last five-and-a-half years.
It belies belief, doesn’t it?
Now let’s talk tactics. Zaccheroni’s preferred formation is a 3-4-3, and he champions the use of a trident attack. Take a look at Juventus’ squad. Where are the wide players? Sebastian Giovinco and Mauro Camoranesi can occupy the winger roles, but they are both currently injured. Vincenzo Iaquinta, also a long-term absentee, is a less natural option. Antonio Candreva could perhaps improvise too. In simple terms, the Bianconeri don’t have the squad to suit Zaccheroni’s favorite system.
And what about Diego? The Brazilian can’t play in a 3-4-3 or 4-3-3. So unless Zaccheroni employs a 3-4-1-2 as he did with Milan in the latter stages of 1998/99 and uses Diego in the Zvonimir Boban/Leonardo hole, then there will be no room for the trequartista. And if Zaccheroni uses a three man backline, do Juve have enough quality centre backs?
Juventus have changed formation enough this season without Zaccheroni implementing another wacky scheme that the squad don’t even have the players to adapt to.
Most critics will argue that Zaccheroni is a coach of yesterday. On top of the aforementioned ‘five months in five-and-a-half years’, the tactician’s track record over the past 10 years is pretty dire. Despite also coaching Milan, Inter and Lazio, he won no silverware last decade and never came even remotely close. He will be best remembered for the humiliating 5-1 home defeats suffered by Inter and Lazio to Arsenal and Roma respectively.
As Goal.com’s Lazio expert Stefano Federici points out, “He won the Scudetto thanks to some extremely controversial refereeing and has been living in the shadow of his one and only success ever since.”
This one and only success arrived in 1999 when a very ordinary Milan side somehow overhauled a far superior Lazio team to the post in a season when an Alessandro Del Piero-less Juventus were in disarray following the departure of Marcello Lippi.
The days when Zaccheroni was a respected coach are long gone. Indeed, Zac has not been high up in my estimations since his time at Udinese between 1995-98 when the Zebrette played a sparkling brand of football led by the attacking trident of Paolo Poggi, Marcio Amoroso and Oliver Bierhoff. Zac led Udinese to a magnificent third-place finish in 1998, which turned Silvio Berlusconi’s head.
Zaccheroni’s job between now and the end of the season, when he will be replaced by a big name permanent coach such as Rafa Benitez or Marcello Lippi, is to ensure that Juventus finish in the top four and qualify for the Champions League.
Anything less will be a complete disaster, but I am not at all confident that the Meldola-born boss will achieve this objective. Indeed, it wouldn’t surprise me if Zaccheroni is flushed out before the end of the season, and the Pied Pipers of Vinovo lure out another rat.
就任からすでにザッケローニに対して否定的な意見が出ている。このコラムでは
ユベントスの無能なフロントがチームとファンを崩壊への道に導いているとしている。フェラーラの代わりは本当にザッケローニでよかったのかと。
ザッケローニが好む戦術は3-4-3だが、ユベントスは３人のセンターバックを補うほど十分ではない。本職は
カンナヴァーロ、レグロッターリェ、キエッリーニの３人。グリゲラもできるが十分な数ではない。
さらにウイング的に振る舞える選手がほとんどいない。ジョビンコとカモラネージはその任に耐えるが、怪我で戦列を離れている（ジョビンコは復帰しているけれども）。カンドレーヴァも可能だろう。だが、その他にはいない。
ヂエゴのプレーする場所もない。フェラーラはヂエゴをセコンダプンタとして起用したが、かなり低い位置でプレーして、アマウリやトレゼゲが孤立する場面が多かった。トレクァレティスタとして振る舞う場所がヂエゴには必要だが、その場所がザッケローニのシステムにはない。
さらにいえば、監督としての経験はあっても実績に乏しい。
ミランでスクデットを獲得しているが、これは多くの幸運に恵まれたものだった。好調だった
ラツィオの失速、
デル・ピエロは怪我で離脱中、リッピもユベントスの監督を始めたばかりだった。
そして、ザッケローニはその一度のスクデット以来、ミラン、ラツィオ、
インテル、
トリノで解任され続け、そしてずっと影の存在として現役から離れていた。
コラムニストはこう結んでいる。ザッケローニはベニテス、リッピまでのつなぎだろう。そうでなくてはシーズン終了までという契約はない。そのシーズン終了までという契約も怪しいものだ。ザッケローニが結果を残せず、すぐに解任され、フロントが別の監督を連れてくる可能性があると。
このコラムについているコメントでは、誰であってもフェラーラよりましとか、ジェンティーレのほうがよかったとかついている。ザッケローニの指揮では不安なのは間違いないのだが。
Alberto Zaccheroni Is Not The Man For Juventus, It Is Absurd - Zvonimir Boban(
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Juventus coach Alberto Zaccheroni's appointment has been met with stern opposition from one of the stars of his 1999 Scudetto-winning Milan squad.
Zvonimir Boban has hit out at the way Juventus ousted Ciro Ferrara after bringing in Zaccheroni on a temporary basis.
The new coach has been contracted to the club until June 2010. He is tasked with turning around the club's fortunes and finish the campaign within the top four.
Boban feels the wholesale changes could have been avoided, responding sharply when asked whether Zaccheroni was the man for Juve.
"No [he's not the right man for the job], there has been a loss of style and I agree with what Jose Mourinho said. Juve have not shown Ferrara any respect," he told Sky Sport Italia.
"The club was never close to him, which is what a serious club would have normally done. Even the way this happened, it's all absurd and there is nothing elegant about this whole thing.
"As for Zaccheroni, having been out of work you can understand he wanted to get back into it, but he has lost style accepting a short four-month role.
"He has fallen. He is a coach who has coached great teams and he won the Scudetto. How can he accept being called a ferryman? There is no more respect for anyone at all.
"He will find it very difficult to get this team working. I think it would have been better to stick with Ferrara."
コラムニストだけではない。ザッケローニはかつての教え子ズボニミール・ボバンにも否定されているのだ。
ザッケローニがユベントスの監督にふさわしいかどうかについて「ふさわしくないと思うね。スタイルを失ってしまうだろう。モウリーニョの言葉に賛成するよ。ユーベはフェラーラにリスペクトを見せなかった」とコメントしている。
たしかに
ローマ戦、インテル戦と連敗はした。しかし、何も出来なかったミラン戦、
キエーボ戦と違って攻撃のアイディアはあったのだ。改善は見えてきていた。怪我人が戻ってくれば、ましになっていた可能性はあった。ただし、そこまで時間がなかったのも事実。だとしたら、もっと長期政権を任せられる監督を連れてくるべきではなかったか。
「クラブは彼と距離をとっていた。もちろんこういうことはビッグクラブにはよくあることだ。こういう不調に陥ったときにはね。ザッケローニに関しては仕事に戻りたがっていたのは理解できるけれども、たった４カ月の契約にサインするとはもうなりふり構っていられなかったのじゃないか。彼は凋落してしまった。たしかにスクデットを獲得したけれども、こんな契約では尊敬の念はないよね。ザッケローニにとっては難しい仕事になるだろう。まだフェラーラを諦めないほうがよかったと思う」と辛辣な言葉を出している。
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