Massimiliano Allegri’s role at AC Milan has been described as ‘NBA style’ by the Italian media this morning, referring to the control he has.
Allegri’s level of involvement in his early days back at Milan has been written about at length by various sources. He has been labelled a ‘workaholic’ as he is often seen at Casa Milan, planning for the season ahead with Igli Tare.
Allegri the basketball coach
This morning’s edition of Tuttosport has a segment which begins: ‘Coach, but also manager, technical commissioner or if you prefer, head coach. In full NBA style’. In his second spell at Milan he will be supported by several assistants, but all of great depth.
There is the faithful Marco Landucci, who has been his right-hand man for 17 years now, as well as the head of athletic trainers, Simone Folletti.
Allegri wants to try to bring Milan back to the top of Serie A and try to replicate what Antonio Conte did in Naples last season, that is, win the championship by taking advantage of the assist of the absence from European competitions.
Massimiliano Allegri, Head Coach
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Allegri will be able to count on the guru of goalkeeping coaches, Claudio Filippi, who he met at Juventus and convinced to follow him to the Rossoneri.
Then there are four further assistants. Aldo Dolcetti is a former teammate from his time at Pisa who he met again at Milan in 2011 and never left. Maurizio Trombetta spent many years alongside Galeone and Guidolin, a few adventures abroad and since 2014 with Allegri at Juventus.
Francesco Magnanelli was Allegri’s player at Sassuolo when in ’07-08 the Emilians won promotion to Serie B. Then in 2023 he rejoined Juventus and last season was the head coach of their Primavera, but left to reunite with Allegri in Milan.
Finally, Bernardo Corradi – the most recent arrival – left the Italian U20 national team to join up with Max.
Allegri is very keen to get back on track. He is demonstrating this with his activism of the last few days: he has been to the headquarters several times, also to Milanello to prepare, before taking a few days of vacation in view of the official start of the season on July 7.