Maurizio Sarri is a frustrated footballer and a loser coach. During his long career as a head coach, he changed a huge number of clubs, but he never won anything with them. Despite this, in Italy they love and respect this specialist very much, and the recent transfer to English Chelsea will make the whole world treat him with respect.
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 a craving for sports. From an early age, he decided to follow in his father's footsteps and became a cyclist, but very soon he got tired of this occupation, and he became interested in football. The boy studied well at school and did not plan to connect his fate with the ball game. That is why Sarri's career stuck at the amateur level.
Career
Maurizio Sarri received his first and unexpected coaching experience at the age of 15, then the team's coach was fired and there was no one to replace him, Sarri took the initiative, marked out the game scheme and gave introductory instructions for the match, as a result the team won 2-1. The guy played as a defender, but over time he realized that training is much more interesting than playing.
His 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 at a bank, combining with coaching. In the morning he went to work at the bank, and in the evenings he coached the team. He was able to finally decide on the choice of profession only in 2001. Then the team he led, at the end of the season, rose to a higher rank and Sarri realized that now he would not be able to combine his two favorite things.
Then there was a whole series of new clubs - mostly 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 one of the top clubs in Italy, Napoli. The start at a new place of work was unexpected. In the Europa League, Napoli won all 6 matches in the group stage and set a record with 22 goals in the group stage.
The team reached the playoff from the first line and in the 1/16 finals got to the Spanish "Villarreal" and lost on aggregate. In the home championship, Sarri's wards finished the first half of the season as champions, occupying the leading position, but at the end of the season, having lost points, lost the first line to the famous Turin Juventus.
Despite these results, the head coach of Napoli was awarded the prestigious Golden Bench coaching award (given to the coach of the year). After a bright debut, Sarri spent two more seasons with the team, according to the results of which he never won anything and in early 2018 he left the club.
In the middle of the same year, Maurizio Sarri made his first trip outside Italy and became the head of Roman Abramovich's team - London Chelsea. Thus, he became the sixth Italian coach in the history of the Aristocrats. Despite the flimsy preseason games (Chelsea barely beat Lyon and Italy, and suffered two defeats to English clubs Arsenal and Manchester City), the team led by Maurizio Sarri started the official season with a crushing home win. championship and after two and a half months has not suffered a single defeat.
Personal life
Before heading up one of the English giants, Chelsea, Sarri lived a quiet and calm life in Italy with his humble wife Marina. A woman does not like to appear in public, and even more so to give any interviews. Maurizio himself generally hates journalists and may well turn to insults if the questions in his opinion are stupid.
Sarri has one thing that sets him apart from most professional trainers: he is a heavy smoker. He smokes everywhere and always, the number of cigarettes that he smokes per day varies from 30 to 60. While he worked in amateur clubs in Italy, despite the ban, he regularly smoked right on the sidelines. After moving to England, Sarri uses cigarette filters during the matches of his team, replacing them with cigarettes during the match.
