Massimiliano Allegri

italian association football player and coach

Massimiliano Allegri ( italian pronunciation : [ massimiˈljaːno alˈleːɡri, – alˈlɛː- ] ; [ 3 ] [ 4 ] born 11 August 1967 ) is an italian professional football director and former player who is the coach of Serie A club Juventus. During his playing career, Allegri played in the Serie A as a midfielder with Pisa, Pescara, Cagliari, Perugia and Napoli. In 2002, he won the Serie D deed with Aglianese, with whom he retired as a actor.

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After beginning his managerial career in 2003 with several smaller italian sides, Allegri helped Sassuolo advance promotion to the Serie B for the first time in their history, winning the Serie C1 championship and Super Cup in the same year. From 2008 to 2010, he coached Cagliari in Serie A, leading them to their best Serie A ending in about 15 years. His performances as head coach of Cagliari earned him a act to AC Milan in 2010, where he remained until January 2014 ; he won a Scudetto in 2010–11, Milan ‘s first since 2004, and a Supercoppa Italiana style in 2011. between 2014 and 2019, Allegri was in agitate of Juventus, with whom he won eleven trophies : five straight league titles ( from 2015 to 2019 ), four Coppa Italia titles in a row ( from 2015 to 2018 ) and two Supercoppa Italiana titles ( 2015 and 2018 ) ; he besides reached two UEFA Champions League finals ( 2015 and 2017 ). He returned to Juventus in 2021, following two years away from management. individually, Allegri won the Panchina d’Oro ( Golden Bench ) four times ( 2009, 2015, 2017 and 2018 ) and was four times Serie A Coach of the Year ( 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2018 ), a good as being awarded the Enzo Bearzot Award ( 2015 ) and inducted into the italian Football Hall of Fame ( 2018 ). He is besides the lone coach in italian football history to have won five Scudetti and four Coppa Italia titles consecutively, and the alone matchless in Europe ‘s top five leagues to have won a domestic double for four back-to-back seasons .

Club career [edit ]

After spending the earlier function of his career in the lower leagues, including his hometown club Livorno, Allegri joined Pescara in 1991. A talented and creative musician, he established himself in midfield as Giovanni Galeone ‘s side won forwarding to Serie A in 1992. Allegri was an outstanding performer for Pescara in Serie A. Despite the side ‘s relegation in last locate, there was no dearth of goals and Allegri scored an impressive 12 goals from midfield. He moved on to Cagliari and then Perugia and Napoli before returning to Pescara. Brief spells at Pistoiese and Aglianese followed before his retirement from active football in 2003. [ 5 ] aboard five early italian footballers, Allegri received a annual bachelor of arts in nursing for match-fixing following a Coppa Italia draw in 2000. The italian Football Federation ( FIGC ) besides handed annual suspensions to Fabio Gallo, Sebastiano Siviglia, and Luciano Zauri of Serie A side Atalanta ; and Alfredo Aglietti of Serie B ‘s Pistoiese. [ 6 ]

Managerial career [edit ]

early career [edit ]

Allegri started his managerial career in 2004, serving as the director of Serie C2 team Aglianese, the clubhouse where he spent his two concluding years as a player. Following an impressive season with them, Allegri was called to head Grosseto, then in Serie C1, but his experience with the biancorossi proved not to be vitamin a successful as with Aglianese and he was ultimately sacked concisely after the begin of the 2006–07 Serie C1 season. curtly after being sacked by Grosseto, Allegri agreed to rejoin his mentor Giovanni Galeone at Udinese, becoming part of his coaching staff. [ 7 ] however, this practice proved to be forbidden by the italian football laws because he was still contracted with the Tuscan club, which caused Allegri to be disqualified for three months in early 2008. [ 8 ]

Sassuolo [edit ]

In August 2007, Allegri became head bus of ambitious Serie C1 team Sassuolo, who Allegri managed to lead cursorily into the lead league spots. On 27 April 2008, Sassuolo mathematically ensured the 2007–08 Serie C1/A league deed, therefore winning a diachronic first forwarding to Serie B for the neroverdi. [ 9 ]

Cagliari [edit ]

On 29 May 2008, Allegri was announced as raw lead coach of Cagliari in the Serie A, replacing Davide Ballardini. [ 10 ] Despite a disappointing depart, with five losses in the first five league matches, Allegri was confirmed by cabaret chair Massimo Cellino and late went on to bring his team up to a mid-table placement in December. [ 11 ] On 9 December, following a 1–0 home win to Palermo, Cagliari announced they had agreed a biennial contract extension with Allegri, with a fresh compress that was set to expire on 1 June 2011. The sign was then revealed to have been signed in October, in the midst of the rossoblu’ s early crisis. [ 12 ] He completed the 2008–09 temper in an impressive ninth place, their best leave in Serie A in about fifteen years, which was hailed as a huge resultant role in inner light of the specify resources, the lack of top-class players, and the high choice of Cagliari ‘s attacking football style, which led the Sardinians not army for the liberation of rwanda from UEFA Europa League reservation. [ 11 ] such results led him to be awarded the Panchina d’Oro (Golden bench), a trophy awarded to the best Serie A football coach according to other managers ‘ votes, ahead of Serie A winning coach José Mourinho. [ 11 ] In the 2009–10 season, he managed to confirm Cagliari ‘s high footballing levels despite the passing of unconstipated hitter Robert Acquafresca, leading an impressive count of three players from his side—namely Davide Biondini, Federico Marchetti, and Andrea Cossu —to receive italian national team call-ups during his reign at the club. On 13 April 2010, Cagliari surprisingly removed Allegri from his managerial duties despite a solid 12th position with 40 points, and youth passenger car Giorgio Melis—with Gianluca Festa as his assistant—was appointed as his surrogate. [ 13 ] [ 14 ]

AC Milan [edit ]

Allegri was released from his compress by Cagliari on 17 June 2010, under request of Serie A giants AC Milan, who were concern in appointing him as their raw coach. [ 15 ] On 25 June, Allegri was officially appointed as the new director of Milan. In his first season in charge, Allegri led Milan to their first backing claim since 2004, [ 16 ] beating title incumbents and cross-city rivals Inter Milan in both league fixtures ; [ 17 ] at the clock, entirely Roberto Mancini had achieved that feat at a younger age. [ 11 ] Allegri ‘s Milan slope, however, failed to make it past the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia, losing to Palermo 4–3 on sum. The team besides competed in the smasher stage of the UEFA Champions League, where they were eliminated by Tottenham Hotspur. Success continued in his second season at the club. He led Milan to their sixth Supercoppa Italiana entitle on 6 August 2011, by coming from behind in a 2–1 acquire over city rivals Inter in a game played at the Beijing National Stadium. [ 18 ] That was a far as his success went for that season, however. A semi-final Coppa Italia hard at the hands of Juventus followed by a quarter-final UEFA Champions League hard at the hands of Barcelona left Milan fighting on only one front towards the end of the season—the Scudetto. even that was to be lost, however, with the Rossoneri finish up in second place to Juventus and consequently qualifying for adjacent season ‘s Champions League group stage. The season was besides marked with controversy however, as in the moment one-half of the season, Milan had a finish by Sulley Muntari disallowed in a key match against deed rivals Juventus at the San Siro, after they had already been leading 1–0 ; the pit finally ended in a 1–1 draw. [ 11 ] Along with Adriano Galliani, Allegri drew criticism for his decision to sell veteran deep-lying playmaker Andrea Pirlo to Juventus, after excluding him from the starting eleven the former season, and deeming him to be a excess due to his senesce ; Pirlo went on to play a key character in Juventus ‘s triumphant Serie A entitle. [ 11 ] On 13 January 2012, Allegri agreed to extend his abridge with Milan to the end of 2013–14 season. On 5 June 2012, Allegri stated that he intends to coach for only 10 more years and plans to retire at the age of 55 due to the fact that coaching contains a high flat of stress and anxiety. He besides said that he hopes to coach the italian national english before he retires. With the departure and retirement of respective of the club ‘s key players, Milan struggled at the begin of the 2012–13 season, and had only collected 8 points from their first 7 games, putting Allegri in risk of getting fired early on. [ 11 ] Despite all the criticism from the critics, Milan stuck with Allegri and he managed to get the best out of some younger players including Stephan El Shaarawy, Milan ‘s home-grown player Mattia De Sciglio and late on Mario Balotelli. Allegri managed to steer the Rossoneri from 16th place to a 3rd-place finish at the conclusion of the season, with an epic poem 2–1 comeback victory away to Siena. The result gave Milan a smudge in the playoff round for the 2013–14 Champions League campaign. [ 11 ] On 1 June 2013, cabaret president Silvio Berlusconi confirmed Allegri to remain as the director of Milan, despite numerous speculations that he would be given the sack. On 31 December 2013, Allegri confirmed he would leave the club at the end of the season, telling Gazzetta dello Sport : “ Of course this is my survive Christmas at A.C. Milan ”. however, Milan reported that Allegri and his staff were relieved of their duties with immediate effect on 13 January 2014. [ 19 ]

Juventus [edit ]

right) coaching Allegri ( ) coaching Juventus in 2014 On 16 July 2014, Allegri was appointed as the new head coach of Juventus, replacing Antonio Conte who had resigned the day before. [ 20 ] Although the decision to hire Allegri was initially met with ambivalence, [ 11 ] on 2 May 2015, he guided Juventus to their one-fourth back-to-back Serie A deed, as the club defeated Sampdoria 1–0 at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris in Genoa ; this was alone the second time Juventus had won four straight Scudetto titles ( the last prison term being from 1931 to 1935, when they won five Scudetto titles in a row ). Having previously won the title with AC Milan in 2011, it besides marked his second Scudetto title as a director in Serie A. [ 21 ] On 13 May 2015, Allegri guided Juventus to the Champions League concluding by defeating defending champions real Madrid in the semifinals, 3–2 on aggregate ; [ 22 ] it had been twelve years since the Bianconeri had stopping point appeared in the final examination, finally losing to Milan 3–2 on penalties in 2003. [ 23 ] A week subsequently, on 20 May 2015, Allegri guided Juventus to a domestic double by helping the clubhouse win their record tenth Coppa Italia, defeating Lazio 2–1 in extra meter. The Old Lady last won the trophy in 1995, breaking their twenty-year drought of having not won the competition, and making them the first base team in Italy to win the trophy ten-spot times. [ 24 ] On 6 June 2015, Juventus were defeated by Barcelona, 3–1, in the 2015 UEFA Champions League final examination. [ 25 ] On 6 July 2015, about a year after signing with Juventus, Allegri signed a annual annex to his current condense keeping him at the club until the end of the 2016–17 season. On 8 August 2015, Allegri led Juventus to a 2–0 victory over Lazio in the Supercoppa Italiana, with new signings Mario Mandžukić and Paulo Dybala scoring the goals. [ 26 ] Allegri was included in the 10-man short list of nominees for the 2015 FIFA World Coach of the Year Award, [ 27 ] but was late not included among the three finalists, despite about completing a treble in his first season as Juventus ‘s coach. [ 28 ] however, on 14 December 2015, Allegri won the Serie A Coach of the Year award ; [ 29 ] and late on 7 March 2016, his second gear always Panchina d’Oro for his success with Juventus during the 2014–15 season. [ 30 ] On 25 April, Juventus were crowned 2015–16 Serie A champions ; after initially struggling during the beginning ten-spot league matches of the season, Juventus went on an unbeaten streak and won 24 of their next 25 league games to come back from 12th position to defend the title. [ 31 ] The team ‘s unbeaten streak ended after 26 matches, and was broken following a 2–1 away loss to Verona on 8 May. [ 32 ] On 6 May, Allegri extended his contract as Juventus director to 2018. [ 33 ] On 21 May, he led Juventus to the domestic double once again after a 1–0 victory over Milan in the 2016 Coppa Italia Final, the beginning team in Italy to win back-to-back doubles. [ 34 ] On 17 May 2017, Allegri led Juventus to their 12th Coppa Italia entitle in a 2–0 win over Lazio, becoming the first team to win three straight championships. [ 35 ] Four days former on 21 May, following a 3–0 succeed over Crotone, Juventus secured their sixth straight Serie A entitle, establishing an all-time commemorate of consecutive gloat in the rival. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] [ 38 ] On 3 June 2017, Allegri entered his second Champions League Final in three years with Juventus, but suffered a 4–1 frustration to defending champions real Madrid. [ 39 ] On 7 June, Allegri renewed his sign with Juventus until 2020. [ 40 ] Allegri took consign of his two-hundredth game with Juventus on 9 February 2018, a 2–0 away win over Fiorentina. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] On 9 May 2018, Allegri won his one-fourth consecutive Coppa Italia title, in a 4–0 acquire over Milan. [ 43 ] Four days former on 13 May, following a 0–0 draw with Roma, Allegri secured his fourth consecutive Serie A claim, becoming the first director in Europe ‘s top five leagues to win four consecutive doubles. [ 44 ] On 17 May 2019, after Juventus had already secured its fifth uncoiled Scudetto under Allegri on 20 April, Juventus announced that he would leave the golf club at the end of the season. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] Allegri left Juventus in 2019 with a succeed share of 70.48 %, the highest in the history of Juventus to date. [ 47 ]

render to Juventus [edit ]

Allegri as Juventus head passenger car in 2021 On 28 May 2021, Juventus announced Allegri ‘s return to the club as coach after two years away from management, replacing the displace Andrea Pirlo on a four-year contract. [ 48 ] Allegri ‘s first equal since his return came on 22 August, in a 2–2 absorb against Udinese. [ 49 ]

style of management [edit ]

Allegri has been praised for his tactical intelligence and his ability to build efficaciously upon Antonio Conte ‘s successful tactics and winning brain as Juventus ‘s director, albeit in a less rigorous manner. He initially continued to use Conte ‘s trademark 3–5–2 formation, but late switched to a four-man back-line, in particular in the UEFA Champions League. Under Allegri, Juventus became slenderly less aggressive and acute in their pressing off the ball while their play dash became more patient and focused on keeping possession and gaining territorial advantage in decree to conserve department of energy, tactics which he had previously used while at Milan. Although Allegri ‘s team was however effective at winning the musket ball in midfield and scoring from counter-attacks, the club ‘s attacking play on the ball normally involved a slower build-up, which chiefly consisted of short passes, and fewer retentive balls from Pirlo and Bonucci. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] [ 52 ] [ 53 ] Goalkeeper Buffon besides continued to chiefly play the ball out from the second with short reason passes to the defenders, but he besides began to use deeply goal kicks out to the wings. [ 54 ] [ 55 ] [ 56 ] Allegri has besides been lauded for his versatility, which he demonstrated by adopting and switching between several unlike formations during his first season with Juventus, including the 4–3–1–2, the 4–4–2 and the 4–3–3 formations, [ 51 ] [ 57 ] which he had besides previously adopted while at Milan [ 58 ] in holy order to find the most suitable system for his players. [ 59 ] The fluidity of Juventus ‘s formations under Allegri allowed talented players more exemption and creative license [ 50 ] [ 51 ] and enabled the midfielders to make attacking runs into the area. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] Despite implementing respective changes, Allegri distillery managed to preserve Juventus ‘s defensive organization and strength—this was far demonstrated by his tendency to switch to the 3–5–2 in the final 20 minutes of closely contested matches in orderliness to hold on to the result [ 56 ] [ 59 ] ampere well as by his leaning to play behind the ball with two bass, tight defensive lines when facing teams that dominated possession, preferring alternatively to focus on breaking up play and adopting a counter-attacking style of play alike to that which he had previously besides used with Milan. [ 61 ] [ 62 ] [ 63 ] Pirlo praised Allegri ‘s apparently more relax attitude to coaching stating that he “ brought a sense of calm ” to the team and that he aided in endowing the players with a sense of assurance. [ 59 ] Regarding Juventus ‘s fluidity under Allegri, italian football analyst Antonio Gagliardi tweeted : “ Juventus defend moo with a 5–4–1, they press with a 4–4–2 and they attack with a 4–2–3–1. Systems in the future will become ever more fluent ”. [ 64 ] In his second season with the club, Allegri was praised for rebuilding the team following the deviation of several key players, such as Pirlo, Vidal and Tevez ; and for his function in inspiring Juventus to a rejoinder to defend the league deed, which included a 15-match winning mottle after a negative start. [ 53 ] [ 65 ] [ 66 ] Although a 1–0 frustration to Sassuolo on 28 October 2015 left them in 12th identify, 11 points from the top of the table after their first 10 league matches, Juventus went unbeaten in their following 25 fixtures, winning 24 of them and finished the season as 2015–16 Serie A champions with three games to spare—this was the clubhouse ‘s record one-fifth consecutive league championship since the 2011–12 season. [ 31 ] [ 63 ] [ 65 ] [ 67 ] During the 2016–17 season, Allegri drew far praise in the media for his decision to occasionally depart from the team ‘s trademark 3–5–2 formation and alternatively adopt a new 4–2–3–1 constitution, in finical for european matches, a organization which good suited the characteristics of the golf club ‘s new signings—the tactical interchange most notably saw Gonzalo Higuaín fielded as the team ‘s main striker while Dybala was used in a more creative function as total 10, backed by two central box-to-box midfielders ( normally the more defensive-minded Sami Khedira alongside either Miralem Pjanić or Claudio Marchisio in a deep playmaking character ) and flanked by Juan Cuadrado on the right wing. The switch to a four-man back-line besides allowed Allegri to rotate several players, such as centre-backs Giorgio Chiellini, Andrea Barzagli and Leonardo Bonucci a well as right-backs Dani Alves and Stephan Lichtsteiner, while centre-forward Mario Mandžukić was deployed in a deep, wider role as a winger or attacking midfielder on the leave flank—this raw position utilised the Croatian ‘s work-rate, news, hold-up maneuver and ability to cover for teammates making overlapping runs, in particular those of left-back Alex Sandro while Mandžukić ‘s altitude and ability in the vent besides enabled him to function basically as a “ prey man “ in wide areas. Juventus ‘s tactical versatility was demonstrated by their ability to switch between the 3–5–2 and 4–2–3–1 formations during matches ; this trait was peculiarly discernible in the team ‘s first peg regular of the Champions League semi-final against Monaco. Ahead of the couple, Allegri fielded Dani Alves as a right-sided wing-back in a 3–5–2 constitution in stead of Cuadrado and reverted to the team ‘s trademark back-three compose of Barzagli, Bonucci and Chiellini. When in possession, Juventus kept the ball and played it out from the back and normally attacked with a 3–2–4–1, 3–4–3 or 4–2–3–1 formation as Dani Alves often made offense imbrication runs behind the enemy ‘s defense, basically acting as a winger, which created difficulties for Monaco ‘s back-line while Barzagli moved out across-the-board to cover for the brazilian, functioning as a improvised right-back. When defending behind the ball, the team reverted to an mastermind 3–5–2 or 5–3–2 constitution, which was difficult for Monaco to break down, courtesy of the strength of Juventus ‘s defensive trio, who were dubbed “ the BBC “ in the media, a reference point to the defenders ‘ initials—Juventus ‘s defensive solidity ensured that the cabaret only conceded three goals en route to the 2017 Champions League final and besides allowed the Turin side to create goalscoring opportunities from fleet, sudden and efficient counter-attacks after winning back monomania. Juventus ended the season by capturing their third straight domestic double, which included an unprecedented italian record sixth consecutive league entitle ; and besides reached the Champions League final for the second time in three years, losing out 4–1 to defending champions real Madrid. [ 68 ] [ 69 ] [ 70 ] [ 71 ] [ 72 ] [ 73 ] [ 74 ] [ 75 ] [ 76 ] [ 77 ] [ 78 ] [ 79 ] [ 80 ] [ 81 ] [ 82 ] [ 83 ]

personal life [edit ]

Allegri was born in Livorno to a father who worked at the port of Livorno and a mother who was a nurse, and grew up in Coteto. [ 84 ] In 1992, when he was 24, he called off his marriage with his fiancée Erika two days before the ceremony. [ 85 ] In 1994, Allegri married model Gloria Patrizi, fathering a child Valentina a year late ; he by and by fathered another child, Giorgio, in 2011 with another woman, Claudia. [ 86 ] Since 2017, he has been in a relationship with actress Ambra Angiolini ; [ 87 ] the couple broke up in 2021. [ 88 ]

managerial statistics [edit ]

As of 5 December 2021[89]

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team

From

Record

Aglianese

1 July 2003

30 June 2004

38
10
13
15
30
35

−5

0 26.32
SPAL

1 July 2004

30 May 2005

40
13
15
12
47
41

0 32.50
Grosseto

19 July 2005

26 October 2005

20
6
9
5
21
18

0 30.00
Grosseto

17 April 2006

29 October 2006

10
1
6
3
12
15

−3

0 10.00
Sassuolo

17 July 2007

28 May 2008

42
23
6

Honours [edit ]

player [edit ]

Livorno
Aglianese

coach [edit ]

Sassuolo [ 90 ]
Milan [ 91 ]
Juventus [ 91 ]
Individual