Giampiero Ventura instead of Antonio Conte: is replacement equivalent?

At the European Football Championship in 2016, football information has become known that the famous Italian coach Antonio Conte finishes his work in the national team, and after the tournament leaves his post. Conte goes to England, where he will train London "Chelsea", and his place as coach of the Italian national team will take 68-year-old Giampiero Ventura, who previously trained "Torino".

Biography of the new Italian coach

Ventura was born in Genoa on January 14, 1948. The career of the footballer ended very early, as Giampiero Ventura received a very serious back injury and was no longer able to enter the field. But he could not give up football at all. The first team, which he brought to the field as a mentor, was his native "Sampdoria" (youth composition).

After 3 years, Ventura became assistant coach of the main team, and two years later began his independent coaching career. He worked in such clubs as "Intella", "Udinese", "Napoli". Coach Giampiero Ventura for a long time did not stay in any of the clubs, but thanks to his leadership, many of them went to the higher divisions.

In "Torino" Ventura came in 2011 and worked there until his appointment as head coach of the Italian team.

National team

The fact of appointment as head coach of the Italian national team Giampiero Ventura caused a mixed reaction in the media. After all, this coach has no work in the famous clubs of the top division, and he never coached the team.

But the Italian football coach Ventura knows how to be not only a good coach, but also a teacher, which is well spoken by all players who have ever played under his leadership. His motto, which he came up with for his "Torino": "If we want, we can" - more than once raised the fighting spirit of the players and became the leitmotif of the whole coaching career of Giampiero Ventura.

He is very fond of his work, and in every team he coached, he managed to create a unique friendly atmosphere, where players stand for each other with a mountain and support the coach in everything.

What is the secret of Ventura?

Giampiero Ventura is one of the few coaches who knows everything about his players and helps them to get to the very top of the world football rankings. For example, the famous Italian defender Leonardo Bonucci, he practically led his arm when he was playing for Bari.

For each of his players this coach knows how to find an individual approach, and many of the players have had the best matches in their career just under Ventura. At the heart of his methodology is, above all, study. Anyone who thinks he already knows everything, will never stay in his team for a long time. A vivid example is Juan Sanchez Minho, who lost half a year in Torino and was forced to return to South America.

Ventura is not afraid to bet on young players, thus giving the chance to reveal his potential as soon as possible. "Torino" under his command became the team from which there were a lot of talented young people who play in the best European clubs.

Plans for the 2018 World Cup

Already at the first training camp, which took place in Querciano, Ventura caused a lot of young players who were not yet 20 years old. One of these candidates for the national team was the young goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, who was recently 17 years old.

The Italian national football team has grown significantly younger, and now the coach's task is not to drop the bar that the team has been keeping for the last 10 years.

If you compare Giampiero Ventura with his predecessor Antonio Conte, then, at first glance, the comparison is not in favor of the age coach. After all, under the leadership of Conte, the Italian team came to the highest positions in world football, and Giampiero Ventura calmly coached and educated players of a not very eminent team. But Ventura has those qualities, which, perhaps, are not present in the most eminent coaches of Europe. He is focused on work, his meaning of life was and is football, and he gives all his strength to achieve his goal.

Another thing that helps Ventura achieve the result is that he can return the players faith in success, even after a devastating loss. And this is exactly what is necessary for Italy after a terribly conducted penalty shootout in the last European championship.

Personal life is not a hindrance

It should be noted that Giampiero Ventura always had a weakness for women who are much younger than him, and never concealed it. Most recently he married a 40-year-old Lucian. The wedding ceremony was held a week before his official appointment as head coach of the Italian national team.

But it is unlikely that his personal life will interfere with Ventura in his coaching activities. Work has always been for him an integral part of life, and in the seventh decade is unlikely to change anything.

The qualifying match for the World Championship, which the Italians won against the Israel team, showed that the atmosphere in the team is all right, and the Italians are seriously aimed at the highest places of the upcoming tournament.