Technology Is Ruining Coaches - Allegri

Ex Juventus manager, Massimiliano Allegri has said he believes the tactics that dominate Italian football are crap and football should be seen as an art. According to him, the best way to get the best out of players like Ronaldo is to give him the freedom to do what he wants on the field. Allegri feels relying on tactics for such players will only weigh them down. He added that technology is ruining coaches because football is not science. His words, "When the ball gets to Ronaldo, [Paulo] Dybala, Ronaldinho, [Clarence] Seedorf or [Andrea] Pirlo, I have to put the other players in a position to get the ball to them," "Once they have the ball they decide what to do with it, what the best decision is. My son is eight and every now and then we go on YouTube and watch the great players, the amazing things they do in attack and in defence, because football is art. "In Italy, the tactics, schemes, they're all bullsh*t. Football is art and the artists are the world-class players. "You don't have to teach them anything, you just admire them. All you need to do is put them in the best condition to do well. "I love it when I see a great player do something amazing. On the bench, I'm a spectator watching a show put on by someone, and that someone is a player." "In my ignorance I don’t even have a computer," "I've got an iPad that Juventus gave me. I watch games on it, pull up some stats. Fortunately I've got a good memory and I manage to remember what happens in games. "A coach has to be on the sideline. He has to breathe the game, he has to understand when it’s time to make a sub or take off his best player because the team needs a different kind of player. "The perception is different from the sideline. They're making out football to be an exact science. If that's the case, the coach may as well go to the cinema. If you mechanise everything, you no longer have thinking players. "If the players are used to going through that door and the door is locked, they'll end up banging their heads against it. If the players are used to thinking for themselves, they'll try to find another way out."