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Speaker: Welcome to the Italian football podcast.
Speaker: But just to finish off, we are going to do a little profile on Deserbi, so for the Brighton fans, Premier League fans, and the Premier Faces out there who don't know who Roberto Deserbi is, Nima, can you just tell us a little bit about Deserbi? Well, he's an interesting one. He was born in Brescia. He was part of Milan's Primavera squad, and he was known to
Speaker: He was, as a player throughout his career, he was given the nickname, the Il Pico Lo Genio, the little genius, because he was a left -footed midfielder who had incredible vision and had a good vision and quality of how to build a plane. He could play as a tequartista, and he was in homage of Dejan Savicevic, the legendary Minam player. And then he didn't really ever
Speaker: have a great career. I mean, with Katanya, he played in the Serie A, you know, Napoli got them, you know, those were the, those were the peaks of his - And my dad's hometown of Fodja as well. Yeah, Fodja, yeah. I have to mention that. Yeah, you have to. Yeah, absolutely you have to. I think he took him to like a cup final, not, I think it was Serie C cup or something, I can't remember. He was great at free kicks. Yeah, left footed as well.
Speaker: Yeah. No, I mean, as a coach, he got his big break when Maurizio Zamparini, the now deceased Palermo president,
Speaker: out of the blue, appointed him to take over, gave him a two -year contract to take over after Davida Balardini was sacked. And he was appointed on the 10th of September in 2016. And on the 30th of November, he was sacked by Zamparini, because that's how Zamparini works. But what was interesting was that he was, when he was appointed,
Speaker: by Sasolo because he went to Benevento and he did, you know, the club still got relegated and he left them. But it was really interesting to see that he was brought to, when he was brought to Sasolo and obviously he replaced Beppliakini there.
Speaker: So no, he signed a contract until June 2020. And it was really interesting to see what he did there, because I mean, one of the first players, if I'm not mistaken, one of the first players that they signed,
Speaker: from the balladiniera was Manuel Locatelli. And obviously 2018 -2019 season is probably the best season that Stefano Sensi's ever had. And that was under the ZB. He likes to play a 4 -3 -3 or a 4 -2 -3 -1. He's a huge fan of Pep Guardiola.
Speaker: He's, you know, he calls a bit of a ruckus when Chelsea won the Champions League against City and saying, I'd rather lose the Champions League final playing like Guardiola than to win it playing like others did. And he's been a guest of Guardiola's. There's this photo of him and De Rossi on social media as well. But he's a very progressive modern coach.
Speaker: He absolutely hated the European Super League. He didn't want to play Milan because they were part of the clubs that were part of the Super League and saying that I have to play because my contract says I have to turn up, but otherwise I don't want to go there, saying that they were trying to hijack football from belonging to everybody and they wanted to remove the meritocracy of football and so on and so forth.
Speaker: He is a very modern coach. I think given from what we've seen from Brighton, you know, having taken over from Graham Potter, I think that's a really good appointment. Kind of the same kind of mould in that sense that there are very modern young coaches up and coming. His techniques, his vision of football and his preparation is very modern. And I think it's an exciting choice that they're doing, for sure.
Speaker: Yeah and he's also fantastic at developing players and that's something that we've seen at Brighton. We saw it under Graham Potter doing a great role in a great job in developing and unearthing and developing players. Something that's part of the Brighton project and we've seen it at Sassuolo and he said that you know look at what he did with Schimaka, with
Speaker: with Raspadori. For me, the most important one is Locatelli. Locatelli for me really is probably the greatest success story, I think, under the Serbi. Stefano Sensi had his best season under. That was the season before he went to Inter.
Speaker: And I was under the Derby, 1890. Yeah, absolutely. And then, you know, we saw Berardi as well, became, you know, went on to another level and we saw the Euros, Euro 2020, you know, Locatelli played a big role in Italy winning the title. Berardi also played his part, you know, so he was, you know, he's had a big influence on the development of some really top
Speaker: top young mainly Italian players but also you know other players as well and um i mean genuine borga was was pretty good under him wasn't he i mean borga yeah yeah i mean i already started
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