The new technical boss of the Turkish national team: Who is Vincenzo Montella?
Vincenzo Montella has many features to be successful with his tactical quality, great acting history, high-level coaching debut, knowing the player pool, the structure that does not compromise discipline while leaving his players free, and his good communication skills.
His profile as a football player, having risen to the Italian National Team and being very successful in a team like Roma, is enough for the players he worked with during his time as a coach to have great respect for him. Likewise, the fact that he has hosted three of Italy's big seven, such as Roma, Milan, and Fiorentina, in his coaching career strengthens this respect.
Montella is a coach who has made a difference in almost all the teams he has played for. The young coach, who spent a very good full season with Catania after the 2010/2011 season, where he was the temporary manager of Roma and did a good job in half a season, found his first big opportunity at Fiorentina. Between 2012 and 2015, he led Fiorentina to 4th place for three consecutive seasons. The next season, he finished the league with Milan in 6th place, but this could not be considered a failure in the league, where Milan finished eighth, tenth, and seventh respectively in the three seasons before that.
Vincenzo Montella Cavaliere (born 18 June 1974) is an Italian football manager and former player, who played as a striker. He is the current head coach of the Turkish national football team.
It is obvious that Montella could not demonstrate the success he showed in these clubs in Sampdoria, Sevilla, and his second Fiorentina period. But another fact about him in these three periods attracts attention. He took office in all three clubs after the season started. Therefore, he did not carry out the preparation period and transferred himself. We can say that just like Gian Piero Gasperini, Vincenzo Montella needs to do his own pre-season preparations in order to promise a certain success. The team with which he broke this streak is the Turkish Super League team Adana Demirspor, where he took over from Samet Aybaba after the season started and showed great improvement, especially in his second season. This success has already opened the doors of the Turkish national team for him and now a new adventure begins for the coach.
Defense is always very important for an Italian coach, and Vincenzo Montella is a coach who attaches great importance to compactness when the ball is with the opponent. Compactness, which Jose Mourinho often refers to, is a very important football principle not only in defense but also in attack and even in pressing.