The Spalletti story

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

The Athletic

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🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The start saw a string of sackings but Luciano Spalletti’s managerial career caught fire in his first spell at Roma, one of the most tactically significant coaching stints of the last 20 years. Defined by the discovery of the 4-6-0 formation that rejuvenated Francesco Totti. This Golazzo looks back at that team, as well as some of the less successful periods in Spalletti’s time in football. From ostracizing Totti to ostracizing Icardi. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Famous for being fired – Spalletti’s chaotic beginnings (04m 00s) • PART 1b: The big breakthrough at Udinese (14m 00s) • PART 2: Spallett’s Roma – “the best football I’ve ever seen” (17m 00s) • PART 3a: Spalletti at Zenit (34m 00s) • PART 3b: Returning to Roma to retire Totti (39m 00s) • PART 4: Spalletti at Inter – the Icardi affair (45m 00s) • PART 5: Would you appoint Spalletti? (52m 30s) SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC FOR £1 A MONTH • theathletic.com/totally GET IN TOUCH: • follow us on Instagram • find us on Facebook • send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE: • check out thetotallyfootballshow.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.0	slash Galazzo that's G-O-O-A-Z-O.
0:34.0	G-O-L-S-O! Ojive, we're going to give me a bell piato of spalletti, the man who gave Modern Football
0:50.6	the Force Nine, the man who took Totti from Hero to 460, the man with a face so
0:55.8	sackable, one owner fired him twice in the same season.
0:59.8	Luccianus Paletti, this is your Golazzo.
1:03.0	Gollazzo small delay there but here we all are and by
1:18.8	all I mean James Horncastle hello James hello and Gabrile Marcotti, Dottore.
1:26.0	It's E.S.
1:27.0	and senior writer, Gabrile Marcotti to you.
1:30.0	Caramba.
1:31.0	Well, the Espin Senior writer Gabri Le Marcotti, who are we talking about today?
1:36.0	Luciano Spalletti, one of the, one of the people I least understand in the history of Italian football.
1:45.0	You could say he's a mystery wrapped in a conundrum and I suspect in our talk later at some point
1:51.4	I will no doubt bring up Mr. Kurtz.
1:54.6	Okay. Because that is essentially who he is, yes.
1:58.5	He's a person who traveled to a very, very dark place.
2:02.3	St. Petersburg? Wow. traveled to a very, very dark place.
2:03.2	St. Petersburg.
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