AAGS 2021

24 for the first time, he led me to do what I knew how to do, because it was the role I liked: always playing lots of balls, always being at the center of every action and therefore in the end it was my natural role. I believe that a coach must also have this ability, trying to put the player in his best position and to understand what his qualities are and maybe even see something more than he has always done. Maybe someone has always played the winger and can become a fullback, someone else has been a midfielder and maybe he can be a central defender. I think a coach must be able to look for these things daily and if he does, it is certainly an added value both for him and for the player himself. Your transfer from AC Milan to Juventus showed the importance of the motivation for a football player. Could you tell us about that moment and the mental aspect? Motivation is everything in football, as in life. I spent ten years in A.C. Milan and in the last year I stopped for four months due to an injury and that never happened before in my entire career. People began to say that I was finished, that I couldn’t