Thiago Motta is without a doubt one of the most sought-after coaches on the coaching market this summer. The Italian-Brazilian was the protagonist of two great seasons at the helm of Bologna which culminated with the return to Europe after several years of the rossoblù, who now aim to secure the historic pass for the Champions League.
Over the course of these weeks the name of Thiago Motta he was insistently compared to the bench of the Juventuswho even seems to have an agreement in principle with the Italian-Brazilian coach, but the economic problems of the Old Lady would have rekindled the interest of the Milanwho according to many commentators and insiders could attempt a lunge for the rossoblù despite the significant delay in the dialogue that has occurred over the course of these months.
In the meantime to understand how the issues will evolve, with Milan continues the search for its next coachlet’s find out what coach he is and what idea of football he has Thiago Motta.
Thiago Motta coach: debuts in Paris, Genoa, Spezia and Bologna
“In Italy they don’t understand a thing about football, and the fact that they challenged Thiago Motta in the national team was proof of this. I said ‘These people here don’t understand a thing about football’. He’s the strongest player in the space, he has a specific weight… and they contested it”. At the end of the day we could say that Gianluigi Buffon had a long view on the Italian-Brazilian, also because not everyone goes from the field to the bench and get the results you actually do Thiago Motta is managing to bring home driving the Bologna.
Before the Bolognese it is however right to take a step back, given that the coaching career of the former Inter, Barcelona and PSG player, among others, began in Paris at the helm of the Transalpine U19 team. After a positive season at the helm of the PSG kids, Thiago Motta decides, by mutual agreement with the club, to leave France to answer the call of the Genoa. And it is here that we begin to glimpse the first glimpses of the game, but above all of the Italian-Brazilian’s innovative ideas of football.
However, things in the rossoblù are not going as hoped, considering the dismissal in December 2019 conditioned by a corporate situation on the verge of collapse, unlike those in La Spezia, where Thiago Motta begins to make himself known and attract the attention of clubs of a higher category, accomplishing a real feat allowing the Spice to maintain the in advance A league in the 2021/22 season, against winds and tides, between waves of summer Covid in the squad and transfer block. I realized that his level was different, in the summer of 2022 Thiago Motta leaves the Ligurian Eaglets to become the new coach of Bologna. The rest is history.
Thiago Motta, a predestined: already on the pitch he was everyone’s coach
Thiago Motta is predestined. It’s too easy to say it now, but there is someone who in the past would have bet if they could. We are not talking about Buffon, but about Laurient Blanc, someone who knows a lot about benches and who coached the Italian-Brazilian in Paris between 2013 and 2016. Referring precisely to Thiago Motta, in a press conference in 2015, the French coach said: “In part he is already a coach on the pitch because he has the great enhancing responsibility of guaranteeing our playing philosophy. I see him well in this job, even if he will have to refine his skills a little bad temper”, demonstrating how it was already understood at the time what the Italian-Brazilian’s destiny was. Blanc, in that speech, he was keen to point out Thiago Motta’s “complicated character”, forged in the conviction of his own ideaswhich today are his “fortune” and make him one of the most sought after coaches in the entire world football scene.
In short, Thiago Motta already thought like a coach when he was on the pitch, and that’s why it was natural for him to move from midfield to the benchon which, up to this moment, he has been able to never go astray.
“For me the attacker is the first defender and the goalkeeper the first attacker”, this is the basis of Thiago Motta’s football
The football slogan “Mottiano”, reading it today, is almost an obvious concept if at least once you have seen the Bologna this season, but the sentence “For me the attacker is the first defender and the goalkeeper the first attacker” dates back to 2013, when Thiago Motta he was still a player for Ibrahimovic’s PSG and Thiago Silva as captain. The Italian-Brazilian had already been studying as a coach since then, and apparently with a very precise idea of the type of football he would cultivate once he sat on the bench, but as a coach.
“The game starts from the goalkeeper, with the feet, and from the forwards the offensive pressing to recover the ball.” A clear concept that does not differ too much from what modern football has offered Guardiola onwards, coach from which certainly Thiago Motta he will have been inspired, especially in desire to always look for new solutions. Solutions than ever before this year Bologna are taking shape, thanks also to a team built in the image and likeness of those who lead it.
The fact that Motta and its players being one is absolutely not to be underestimated, on the contrary, at these levels it can often make the difference. Just think of what he said Joshua Zirkzee speaking to AD a few months ago: “There is a lot of enthusiasm in this Bologna and this is a credit to Motta who is a great leaderloves his job”, confirming a sort of visceral bond established by the rossoblù coach who, according to some, has instead been a bit missed around Milanello this season.
Given all the news that has been happening these days, it is right to ask ourselves: Can a profile like Thiago Motta suit AC Milan? The writer thinks of Yeseven because He would bring an identifying, studied but above all offensive football to Milanof those that the late president Berlusconi always hoped for.
