Antonio Conte Character Analysis

Antonio Conte: Failure Beckons the Man Who Refuses to Lose

“Winning is very difficult and very tiring wherever you are it is inevitable that if you’re in such a prestigious club as Juventus.

Here victory is an obligation so maybe it can be more tiring. But he who demonstrates being a champion knows how to take this and the pressure that is a consequence of this.”

Antonio Conte (On his resignation as Juventus manager)

It is not an easy task, being a ‘winner’. It takes a certain disregard for circumstance to unmask the mysticism of an occasion, the courage to grab the occasion by the scruff of its collar when the going gets tough and eventually the determination to push the lines that compel ordinary men and women to inhibit the ascent of their

Calciopoli threatened to end the grace and grit that defined the Champions that Juventus were on the pitch and even off it. Conte, Juventini through and through repaid his debts to the club by dragging it out of quicksand. He also knows failure closely, owing to his early stints as a coach and has learned to evade it along with every other element that it encompasses. He doesn’t rest when there is work to be done. He is a genius in the words of his players and a football man through and through.

The world’s description of him is alluring. All roads point to his christening as a coach of world class ability. So why is it the point of this piece to suggest he will fail at Chelsea when to the naked eye he has all the elements one needs to succeed? The answer is so obvious that it is oft overlooked and one must patiently accept that the circumstances surrounding Chelsea are far from ordinary. Let’s start with where others have failed to figure why Antonio might follow suit.

Where Other Managers Have

He was never the right man for Chelsea’s future and he felt desperately out of his depth the following season as his team couldn’t even get past the Group Stages of the Champions League. Chelsea would go on to have no qualms about showing him the door. Rafa Benitez was to waltz by with fans slating him for his Liverpool connect, but the ‘Interim One’ reveled in his temporary appointment making something out of a lost season of sorts. Yet, his tenure is of no importance in this context.

With Jose, you could see why a team that dominated the Premier League last season ended up flirting with relegation during this one. However, the management found it easier to part with the manager as opposed to the idea of having to sack the whole team.

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