degree in philosophy, Sassuolo, Turkey and the academy in Qatar – Corriere.it

For someone who in his degree thesis (Philosophy of the Game. The aesthetics of football and the role of the goalkeeper) dribbles indifferently with Messi, Dostoevsky, Buffon and Socrates, being faced with a captain named Dante, who is also five years old older than him, the ideal welcome. But one of the few Italian touches is that
Francesco Farioli, new coach of Nice
willing to indulge in his first adventure in a championship among the best five in Europe, at the helm of a team fresh from a disappointing ninth place but with an ambitious rich owner.

After all, it is no wonder, because the path of theDe Zerbi’s former Sassuolo goalkeeper coachfirst at the Aspire academy in Doha, then in the three years in Turkey in his happy debut as head coach, in Italy it would not have been possible by regulation: at the age in which Farioli sat on the bench for the first time (32 years) from we can start the course for the Uefa Pro license. But beyond the precocity and love for adventure away from home, FF little Italian even in his approach to the game, in his desire to attack, to have fun and entertain. All in all, it is also in his empathy with the players, who follow him and trust him even though he has never been a professional footballer and at 21 he started training goalkeepers in Tuscany. Farioli not the Harry Potter of the bench and perhaps not even the equivalent of Julian Nagelsmann who at 27 made his debut in the Bundesliga and at 34 took Bayern, where he didn’t last long. one who really believes in football as fun and building a group that can achieve results without losing spirit: a down-to-earth dreamer, without narcissism and without even the attitude of a football philosopher, which sometimes characterizes coaches who have never played.

In his paper for the University of Florence, philosophy faculty, aesthetics course, Farioli writes things like this: The dream is football removed from football idiocy, from the vulgarity of Italiotscorruption and pollution that threaten to suffocate it: a football conceived in harmony with other activities, modalities and spheres of existence, brought back to its original source, to its being a game full of adventure and the pleasure experienced by children.

In Turkey, his ideas and his approach, which may seem naive but very determined, took root immediately, first at Karamguruk (who then entrusted himself to Pirlo) and then at Alanyspor, who left by mutual agreement in February, shortly after the earthquake . In Nice, Farioli will have a very tough start to the tournament with Lille, Lyon and PSG in the first five days. St

e are in a whirlwind of emotions
– he tells Sky -. The club wants to improve, we want to bring people to the stadium. The calendar is a very inspiring welcome gift. Dante? Since I was 21 I have always had players older and more experienced than me. The important thing is to be credible and to be honest in communication. The FF revolution can begin: so close to Italy, but so far away.