Massimo Cecchini – Inside World Football https://www.insideworldfootball.com For the Business of Football Tue, 18 Apr 2023 04:27:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.16 A new coach and the battle for the presidency https://www.insideworldfootball.com/2016/04/14/massimo-cechinni-new-coach-battle-presidency/ Thu, 14 Apr 2016 07:57:09 +0000 http://www.insideworldfootball.com/?p=91440 After the seemingly endless rumors came the official announcement: at the end of the next European Championship the coach of the Italian national team will not be Antonio Conte. It is no surprise. The offer from Chelsea (about €21 million for three years) was too good once it arrived, while the not so good prospects for the Blues (Italian national team, not Chelsea) were not helped by Serie A giving the coach too little room for maneuver in preparing the team.

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Massimo Cecchini: The battle of the rankings La Battaglia del Ranking https://www.insideworldfootball.com/2016/01/22/massimo-cecchini-the-battle-of-the-rankings-la-battaglia-del-ranking/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:48:31 +0000 http://iwf.dev.kickdigital.co.uk/2016/01/22/massimo-cecchini-the-battle-of-the-rankings-la-battaglia-del-ranking/ It is a country with a rich history, a history emblazoned with glory and noble victories, though at present the Italian national team performances are a little ‘see-saw’. The Italian Football Federation look at their trophies and their world position and are struggling to understand what’s going on.

Since coefficients were introduced to calculate the positions of the countries in the rankings – useful, for example in drawing up the groups for the final stages of World and European championships – Italy and its great football tradition is finding itself placed in unappetising bands,

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Massimo Cecchini: Conte’s Euro challenge at risk of being derailed by due process https://www.insideworldfootball.com/2015/09/25/massimo-cecchini-conte-s-euro-challenge-at-risk-of-being-derailed-by-due-process/ Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:50:04 +0000 http://iwf.dev.kickdigital.co.uk/2015/09/25/massimo-cecchini-conte-s-euro-challenge-at-risk-of-being-derailed-by-due-process/ Simply writing that Antonio Conte, coach of Italian national team, risks a process, it could have a wrong meaning. It would be easy to blame this on a wrong formation, or a federation not happy with the results, or public opinion not satisfied with the way the team is playing its football. However, it is none of these. We are talking about a real legal process, as the coach of Italy in early July was indicted by prosecutors in Cremona,

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Massimo Cecchini: Tavecchio faces a dangerous decision https://www.insideworldfootball.com/2015/07/22/massimo-cecchini-tavecchio-faces-a-dangerous-decision/ Wed, 22 Jul 2015 07:25:42 +0000 http://iwf.dev.kickdigital.co.uk/2015/07/22/massimo-cecchini-tavecchio-faces-a-dangerous-decision/ The setting is certainly fascinating and the event promises to be a media heaven. But, as ever, the danger is in the ambush that lurks around the corner. On July 28, in Milan, under the “world” banner offered by the Milan Expo, will be the draw for the calendar of the 2015-2016 Serie A season, which will open on the weekend of August 22-23. But should we be so sure?

Of the draw taking place there is no doubt,

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Massimo Cecchini: Italian football violence, ping pong responsibilities https://www.insideworldfootball.com/2015/05/04/massimo-cecchini-italian-football-violence-ping-pong-responsibilities/ Mon, 04 May 2015 08:20:59 +0000 http://iwf.dev.kickdigital.co.uk/2015/05/04/massimo-cecchini-italian-football-violence-ping-pong-responsibilities/ We confess to feeling a bit embarrassed talking about violence in Italian football. Even though the circumstances are always different, they are all reprehensible, and trigger debates that are very similar and, for this reason, very embarrassing.

To summarise briefly the event of the past few days. During the Turin derby some ultras from Juventus launched two bombs in the form of grenades, injuring a dozen people. Before the game, some fans were attacked and Turin fans damaged Juventus’

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Massimo Cecchini: The Parma case Il caso Parma https://www.insideworldfootball.com/2015/04/10/massimo-cecchini-the-parma-case-il-caso-parma/ Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:29:12 +0000 http://iwf.dev.kickdigital.co.uk/2015/04/10/massimo-cecchini-the-parma-case-il-caso-parma/ If it was not a true story, the so-called Parma Case could make you laugh (or cry). Take a Serie A club, with a significant history (their roll of honour includes one Cup of Cups, one UEFA Cup, two UEFA Super Cups, three Italian Cups, one Italian Super Cup), located in one of Italy’s richest geographical areas and see if you make it fail, but not at the end of the season – this unfortunately actually happened to important clubs like Florence,

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Massimo Cecchini: Una telefonata a tradimento: Il caso lotito https://www.insideworldfootball.com/2015/02/23/massimo-cecchini-una-telefonata-a-tradimento-il-caso-lotito/ Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:11:28 +0000 http://iwf.dev.kickdigital.co.uk/2015/02/23/massimo-cecchini-una-telefonata-a-tradimento-il-caso-lotito/ Ennio Flaiano, uno dei più famosi sceneggiatori del cinema italiano (basti pensare la collaborazione al capolavoro di Federico Fellini, “La dolce vita”), parlando dell’Italia amava recitare questa battuta: “La situazione è grave, ma non seria”. Ecco, la si potrebbe riproporre senza problemi nel descrivere il momento del calcio italiano, che sta attraversando una nuova crisi istituzionale.

Tutto ruota attorno alla figura di Claudio Lotito, presidente della Lazio e (soprattutto) braccio operativo della Lega di Serie A all’interno della Federcalcio,

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Massimo Cecchini: Antonio Conte – un uomo solo al comando, Conte – a lonely command https://www.insideworldfootball.com/2015/02/09/massimo-cecchini-antonio-conte-un-uomo-solo-al-comando-conte-a-man-in-command-only/ Mon, 09 Feb 2015 10:12:28 +0000 http://iwf.dev.kickdigital.co.uk/2015/02/09/massimo-cecchini-antonio-conte-un-uomo-solo-al-comando-conte-a-man-in-command-only/ Non è bastato il gesto della scorsa settimana – rinunciare allo stage per la Nazionale – per farsi ascoltare dai padroni del calcio italiano. Dopo le decisioni della Lega di Serie A del 6 febbraio, Antonio Conte è sempre di più un uomo solo al comando, dove ormai è doveroso mettere l’accento più sulla parola “solo” che su quella “comando”.

Il braccio di ferro ormai è noto: il commissario tecnico dell’Italia – visto il basso livello attuale del nostro movimento –

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Massimo Cecchini: L’Europeo? E’ Uno Corsa Contro Il Tempo The Euros and a race against time https://www.insideworldfootball.com/2015/01/18/massimo-cecchini-l-europeo-e-uno-corsa-contro-il-tempo-the-euros-and-a-race-against-time/ Sun, 18 Jan 2015 23:35:35 +0000 http://iwf.dev.kickdigital.co.uk/2015/01/18/massimo-cecchini-l-europeo-e-uno-corsa-contro-il-tempo-the-euros-and-a-race-against-time/ Ricordate i lamenti alla fine del Mondiale brasiliano? Ricordate i buoni propositi? “Mai più una vergogna di questo genere: ora occorre che tutti lavorino per ricostruire il calcio italiano”. Ebbene, ad appena sei mesi di distanza dalle belle parole (a pensarci bene, assai simili a quelle udite dopo il Mondiale sudafricano del 2010), sembra di leggere un discorso di Giulio Cesare vecchio di ventuno secoli. Tutto, o quasi, dimenticato.

Se non ci credete,

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Massimo Cecchini: Stade Sicuri? I Club Paghino https://www.insideworldfootball.com/2014/10/24/massimo-cecchini-stade-sicuri-i-club-paghino/ Fri, 24 Oct 2014 07:19:26 +0000 http://iwf.dev.kickdigital.co.uk/2014/10/24/massimo-cecchini-stade-sicuri-i-club-paghino/ Vuoi vedere che la combinazione tra violenza negli stadi e crisi economica potrebbe provocare novità impreviste?

A dare la scossa è stato un tweet del premier Matteo Renzi che ha cinguettato così: “Gli straordinari delle forze dell’ordine impegnate negli stadi devono essere pagati dale società di calcio, non dai cittadini”. Il brivido che ha percorso la schiena dei club – dalla Serie A alla Lega Pro – è stato forte almeno come la sorpresa iniziale.

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