Roberto Mancini: facts from life, career, achievements

The last few years, the famous Italian football manager Roberto Mancini is often criticized by sports experts. And I must say, not without reason. The Italian received a virtually bottomless budget and unlimited opportunities in Manchester City, but he failed to please the club's bosses and the many thousands of fans of the "blue moon" triumph in the Champions League. On the other hand, if you evaluate the coaching career of Mancini in general, then, for sure, he will enter the top 3 of the most titled of his compatriots.

Player's career

Roberto Mancini - a pupil of the club "Bologna" from the north of Italy, there also made the first steps in professional football, speaking mainly on the position of the right forward. The striker managed to register nine times in his first season, which attracted the interest of Sampdoria, which occupied the leading positions in the Italian Serie A at the end of the last century. As part of the "blucherkjati" Roberto made a powerful attacking duo with another Italian footballer - Gianluca Vialli.

In just fifteen seasons in a blue and white T-shirt, Mancini spent about five hundred matches and became along with the team champion of Italy. Also on his account four won the Cup of the country, the Super Cup and the European Cup Winners Cup. The Italian striker was one of those who created for that "Sampdoria" a formidable reputation in European battles. Needless to say, over the course of a decade and a half, Roberto Mancini was the main idol of Luigi Ferraris. The photo of the player with the won titles can be found today in the club museum of the club from Genoa.

At the end of the player's career, the striker had three years to play in the Roman "Lazio" (with whom, by the way, he won six titles, including the Cup of Cups) and even five games in the English Premier League as part of "Leicester".

Coaching activities

While still a player of Lazio, Roberto Mancini, thanks to his vast experience, often acted as an assistant to the head coach of the Romans Sven-Göran Eriksson. Not surprisingly, in 2000, already an ex-striker of the "blue" was led by one of the Serie A clubs - "Fiorentina". The first pancake, as usual, was a lump, and after only a few months the coach left Florence. Somewhat better, the young specialist went to his native "Lazio". Roberto won the Italian Cup with the team, but soon also had to leave the capital's club because of financial troubles and scandals related to the activities of the president.

From 2004 to 2008, Mancini headed the Milan "Inter", with which he achieved very good successes in the domestic arena. Italian coach three times became the champion of the country and twice more triumphed in the national Cup. Later (in 2014), Roberto signed a second contract with Nerazzurri for two more seasons, but he did not just fail to win anything with the team, and showed uninteresting inconsiderate football.

Cadres decide everything

The main achievement of Mancini during his management of the Milan team is rightly considered not to have won titles (although in this aspect the Italian has very succeeded), but the ability to get a potentially strong player into the team for relatively little money or for free. For four years, Hernan Crespo, Dejan Stankovic, Julio Cesar and Esteban Cambiasso came to the club , and it's very difficult to overestimate the merit in these transfers of Roberto Mancini. His model of "Inter" was used even by the odious Jose Mourinho, who in 2010 won with the "Nerazzurri" Champions League.

In the "Manchester City"

At the end of the first decade of the new century in football England, there was another money project, built on Arab capital, called "Manchester City". Managing the new "machine" was invited by Roberto Mancini, with whom the club signed a contract for 3.5 years.

The Italian and the Foggy Albion continued to show the wonders of the football sensation, otherwise how to explain that with his arrival in the team appeared Yaya Toure, David Silva and the current leader of the attack Sergio Aguero? By the way, it is this trio that makes up the backbone of the "blue moon" to this day.

In Manchester, the Italian spent four years and left ambiguous memories of himself. On the one hand, after a few dozen years he returned the club titles and played in spectacular and effective football. On the other - by investing fabulous sums in the development of the City, the Arab sheikhs certainly intended to win the main European tournament - the Champions League, and this Italian did not succeed.

Roberto Mancini: Tactics and Strategies

The Italian mentor is the most experienced experimenter in terms of conducting confrontation and using different tactics. English journalists have repeatedly had to "scratch the back of their head", having learned the starting lineup for the upcoming match and noted that Mancini's actions often cause them bewilderment. However, in the opinion of the same writing fraternity, such a strategy is at the same time a trump card for an Italian specialist, because compared to the more pragmatic Arsen Wenger and Jose Mourinho, Manchester City showed Mancini a bright and attacking football, which is so popular with viewers and so uncommon Coaches from the Apennines.