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Article: 'Best players don't always make up the best team'; Marcello Lippi is the only man to have managed both a World Cup and a European Cup-winning team.He spoke to Glenn Moore about his football philosophy and the lessons the English game could learn from it.(Sports)
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- The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- Article date:
- March 30, 2008
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"Marcello Lippi is one impressive man. Looking into his eyes is enough to tell you that you are dealing with somebody who is in command of himself and his professional domain. Those eyes are sometimes burning with seriousness, sometimes twinkling, sometimes warily assessing you - and always they are alive with intelligence. Nobody could make the mistake of taking Lippi lightly." From Sir Alex Ferguson: Managing My Life.
One of the reasons Sir Alex Ferguson has been so successful is his ability to read men. When it comes to Marcello Lippi, the only manager to have won both the World Cup, with Italy in 2006, and the European Cup, with Juventus a decade later, ...