Allegri: Tactics are bull****, football is art

Massimiliano Allegri believes that the tactics that dominate Italian football are “work for you” and that football should be seen as an art and not that way.

Italian strategist Massimiliano Allegri has been out of work since parting ways with Juventus late last season, after five successful years in Turin.

The 52-year-old coached Cristiano Ronaldo in his final season at Juventus and the Portuguese managed to score 28 goals in all competitions during the 2018/19 season. Allegri insists that to get the best out of players like Ronaldo you have to let go of the tactics on the playing field.

“When the ball goes to Ronaldo, [Paulo] Dybalas, Ronaldinhos, [Clarence] Seedorf or [Andrea] Pirlos … I have to put the other players in a position to get the ball to them,” Allegri told ESPN.

“When they have the ball, they decide what to do, which is the best decision. My son is eight years old and we constantly watch some videos of great players and the wonderful things they do in attack and defense because football is art.”

“In Italy, scheme tactics, they are your job. Football is art and artists are world class players. You don’t need to teach them anything, you can only worship them. On the bench, I’m a spectator who watches a show and someone is a player.”