Mancini, honorary degree: “Confirms the social value of sport”

The Italian coach awarded the honorary title in Sports Sciences by the University of Urbino Carlo Bo: “The coach plays the role of team leader”

From our correspondent Matteo Dalla Vite

September 27
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“Well – smiles Mancio -: it was harder to prepare this thesis than a football match”. Sixteen pages, half an hour of reading in front of the stalls of the Sanzio theater in Urbino to see the delivery of the honorary Master’s Degree in Sports Sciences to Roberto Mancini who, dressed in toga and touch, tells his thesis entitled “Leadership, cohesion, team spirit, relational climate: how to build a winning team in sport “. Inside pages of memories and considerations and insights, the European champion coach remembers everything. And the Gazzetta is able to provide you with the pages he wrote.

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Firecrackers and penalties

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We remember the day of the final “when they woke us up at 2 am with the firecrackers in London, or the interminable 45 ‘journey to reach Wembley, an absurd thing”, but also the moment of choosing the penalty takers. “I put myself in a circle with the players – writes Mancio – I had already lived and thought that moment. I ask everyone who feels like it: I receive positive responses even from those who I would never have thought of. Here: if I had chosen coldly without taking into account of the emotional load of the boys at that moment, perhaps it would have gone differently. Instead it was an immense joy “.

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World Cup and Francesco

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In his sixteen-page thesis, Mancio also recalls John Nash’s revolution (the revolution of group dynamics) with respect to Adam Smith’s thesis, he recalls that “it is important to listen to everyone because everyone participates”, that “the first time I guys I told them that they were no less good than others and that all together we could do something nice “. There is a moment when the theater opens to applause when Mancio says “I still shiver to remember that night at Wembley.” At 5:20 pm Roberto Mancini becomes a doctor, with the degree conferred on him by the University of Urbino Carlo Bo and by Rector Giorgi Calcagnini, the Minister of Tourism Garavaglia is also present and outside the University itself there is a flood of adoring children. “I want to express my legitimate pride, because with this recognition of mine the value of sport on a social level is confirmed – this is the opening words of Mancio -. Today, more than ever, the coach carries out the task of a team leader: the game of football for technical, environmental, cultural and social reasons represents a case study for the management of a working group “. The gloss, then, occurs by quoting Pope Francis: “Sport when it is lived well is like a celebration”, concludes Mancio who on the 6th will play against Spain for the Nations League. “Calling up only 23 is tight on me, but unfortunately I will have to do this. The World Cup every two years? It is something to be evaluated well, because the charm of a 4-year wait is beautiful …”.

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