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He was installed as the Ligurians’ Chief Football Operations Officer during the summer and to say it has been a baptism of fire would be something of an understatement.
“I learned the day after I arrived that the coach (Vincenzo Italiano) wanted to leave! So, we haven’t stopped working from the first day.This is probably the first break we’ve had,” he adds, alluding to the international break.
“But I’ve been very happy to find an environment in which everyone has a great desire to work, and this makes me smile.I’m very happy here and I’m very satisfied with how it’s gone until now.”
He’s certainly pleased with one of the first, and most significant, decisions he made to date: hiring Thiago Motta as Italiano’s replacement. It was certainly a bold choice on Pecini’s part.
The former Barcelona, Inter and Paris Saint-Germain is only 39 and his first job as a head coach, at Genoa, ended with him being sacked after just three months in charge.
Motta, though, is an intriguing and innovative character, who cheap football shirts replica previously made plenty of headlines by advocating a 4-3-3 formation that could be interpreted as a 2-7-2 during his time in charge of PSG’s Under-19s.