Chelsea have hired Italian Antonio Conte (46) as new manager for next season.
It confirms the club on its website . Conte is currently Italian coach, and will first lead Italy in the European Championship this summer. He thus becomes Chelsea’s fifth Italian manager after Gianluca Vialli, Claudio Ranieri, Carlo Ancelotti and Roberto Di Matteo. Guus Hiddink leader known London club the season.
– I am very happy to get the opportunity to work in Chelsea. I am proud to be national coach of Italy, and just such an attractive job as Chelsea manager could change that, says Conte to Chelsea’s website.
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According to Gazzetta, he has written a three-year contract worth 20 million euros.
– Chelsea and English football is famous worldwide, and fans are patriots. My ambition is to have more success than I had in Italy. I am pleased that we can announce this now, so everything is ready and we can stop speculation. I will continue to focus on my job with Italy and would not talk about Chelsea until after the European Championships.
Violent success with Juventus
Conte led Juventus to three league championships in Italy past, partly with the help of a 3-5-2 system. He has also been manager in Arezzo, Bari, Atalanta and Siena.
– We are very pleased to have acquired one of the most recognized leaders in the football world and we are happy to do so until the end of the current season. This helps our future planning, says Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia.
With Juventus won Conte 83 of 114 league games. He lost only seven of them. He had a win percentage of 72.8 in Serie A. In 2013/14 took Conte Bianconeri 102 points in Serie A, which is a record in the top European leagues.
In the Champions League he got there, however not to. The longest Juventus came with Conte was the quarterfinals in 2013. In 2014, missed Juventus and Conte Europa League semi-final against Benfica.
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– Good match
Chelsea’s new manager is very involved on the sidelines.
– Conte has a very strong personality. When he speaks, then listens. He inspires, are good at getting people to pull in the same direction, be involved in the project, says Geir Juva, VG expert.
– Those craving to go to war with him or disagree with him, however, must beware. If looks could kill, fits well at Conte says Juva.
Premier League expert in TV2, Simen Møller, think Chelsea have made a deal.
– I think that’s one great match. It’s a big fish. He simply made it very, very sharp. Especially with Juventus. He got Juventus back to the top after lying down. He has proved that with his grip, he can get to it quite large, says Moller told VG.
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Engaged coach
Mills commented Serie A and came Conte closely in Juventus. TV2 expert believes that Conte is not going to just covered tables in England as in Italy.
– It’s a different climate in Italy for Juventus, than Chelsea in England. Juventus have consistently a major star in Italy. He knew Juventus in and out after having played there for 12 years and had been exercising in Italy before that. So it’s a whole new challenge, but I think he will handle it fine.
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– Do you think he will introduce 3-5-2 in Chelsea?
– Why not? It depends on which players you have. In Juventus, he had absolutely perfect players to it. Something thanks to himself, but also those who worked for him. They managed to compose a midfield trey (Arturo Vidal, Andrea Pirlo and Claudio Marchisio / Paul Pogba) and defense trey (Giorgio Chiellini, Leonardo Bonucci and Andrea Barzagli) which is entirely in European top. It has not Chelsea now, says Moller.
Conte met Chelsea in the Champions League group stage in 2012. When it ended 2-2 in London while at Juventus Stadium won Italians throughout 3-0.
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Pirlo: – A beast
A challenge for the old midfielder warrior is English acquired on this basis is very limited, but Italian media claims he works to improve his English. In return, he has more than enough of body language.
– There is a beast in him. A wardrobe is one of the most dangerous places to be when he was angry. I’ve been in the locker room during breaks when we’ve led, but he comes anyway in and throws around full water bottles, because of a mistake we made or because he thinks we should lead more, wrote Andrea Pirlo in his biography of Conte, where he also hailed the manager.
– If Arrigo Sacchi is a genius, what Conte then?
CHEERS: Antonio Conte had much to celebrate during his time as Juventus coach. Photo: Massimo Pince / Ap.
Juventus stopper Leonardo Bonucci has been linked to a reunion with his old coach at Chelsea, which he later rejected the Italian media. Anyway, he has a taste for Conte.
– Conte is still the boss who wants us to go to war in every game. He is defitivt the best Italian manager exists, said Bonucci in the fall.
When Carlos Tevez was asked if there were differences between Conte and Sir Alex Ferguson, he replied:
– Not many.
in 2012 Conte banned for ten months for not having reported about match-fixing. He did lead the team in trainings, but had to watch Juventus’ match fit. The punishment was later reduced to four months. Summer 2014 left the Conte team quite suddenly.
Conte is married to Elisabetta Muscarrello and daughter Vittoria.
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