Milan will play away against Torino in the first round of Serie A on August 24 at 18:45 CEST (02:45 Beijing time). Head coach Amorim attended the pre-match press conference. This article is the fifth part of the press conference.
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Michael Como (Radio Lombardia): Hello, coach. In Italy, we are traditionally accustomed to having a "field director" or "team leader" in the dressing room and with the first team, responsible for day-to-day affairs and spending the entire day with the squad. However, in today's Milan, it seems we don't see this traditional managerial role in place. Instead, we have an owner with significant power to make decisions and implement them. The coach must communicate directly with the upper management. Can you share with us what it's really like when Gerry Cardinale visits Milanello? Because based on observations from fans and the media, his frequency of visits and attention to inspecting the training ground has increased significantly recently. Does this extremely close and seamless communication and coordination between owner and head coach make things even more challenging for you?
In my view, making everyone here deeply feel the heavy responsibility of wearing the red and black is the foundation of the team. For everyone at Milanello, serving Milan is paramount and essential. At our training ground, the work and responsibilities of each person are extremely clear and standardized, with no grey areas, so everyone knows their mission.
I want to emphasize that this is in no way limited to just the productive and smooth working relationship between Mr. Cardinale and myself personally. What's truly inspiring is the touching humility and warmth he displays every time he visits the Milanello facility—he spends considerable time there, and as he walks around the base, he naturally and respectfully starts conversations with our kitchen staff and shows genuine concern for every member of the logistics team working there. He is absolutely not limited to haughty conversations only with the first-team stars or the head coach. In my view, that is what true unity is all about.
For me, the most important and encouraging thing is that the entire team genuinely feels our owner is always close by, carefully attending to every detail of the club.If you speak in detail with Mr. Cardinale, you realize clearly that if Milan truly wants to embark on a long path to restoring past glory, we must build an organizational ecosystem behind the scenes that embodies expertise and a pursuit of excellence.
As for my responsibilities as head coach—they are always extremely clear and unwavering: to win tomorrow's match. So I will give everything to bring this beloved team to deliver an extremely strong and exciting performance on the pitch.
Pietro Barzano-Prota (Milan Vibes): Hello, coach, and welcome on behalf of all Milan fans! I'd like to discuss some tactical details with you. We observed during pre-season that with Samuel Chukwueze's tactical positioning, you're trying to replicate your ideas for developing Geovany Kuenda during your time at Sporting, or your strategy of using Amad Diallo during your time at Manchester United. Also, in terms of setup and balance in transitional play between attack and defense, does the current Milan have sufficient tactical flexibility to accommodate such an aggressive, even uncompromising super-attacking player to control this flank in actual matches?
This fundamentally depends on an individual player's willingness to work defensively, tactical sacrifice, and game mentality. Often fans and the outside world hold prejudiced views of Samuel Chukwueze simply because he possesses outstanding dribbling and breakthrough skills in front of the opponent's penalty area, then arbitrarily assume he is unable to perform quality defensive work on the pitch.
However, in modern football, defense is far more than just hard technical metrics like your tackling ability or interception angles. Defense is primarily about your mentality—do you have the determination to get back and help your teammates, the fighting spirit that isn't afraid of close battles. I believe Samuel absolutely possesses this strong character that allows him to meet challenges confidently.
Moreover, the more important point is that when we are in a defensive phase, it is absolutely a collective tactical arrangement requiring all 11 players to work together and defend uniformly. It is not a defensive task placed only on him. He makes remarkable progress in this every day—of course, he is not a traditional defender camping in defense.
I fully understand that in Italian football culture and tactical tradition, the outside world often conservatively views the wing-back position as that of a defensive fullback, more inclined toward stable defense rather than as an attacking winger creating problems in the opponent's territory.But the tactical idea I want to convey is that while we certainly want to build a solid defensive line, even more importantly, we aim to use extremely effective, suffocating possession to indirectly ensure strong defense on the pitch.
If we lose control of the game's rhythm and the ball, then in actual matches, even if we defensively pack 10 players in front of the penalty area, tomorrow's match will still become a painful situation where we depend on others. Therefore, my tactical approach requires players who can effectively suppress opponents with the ball and break their tactical lines. Samuel Chukwueze possesses exceptional talent in this tactical role. I believe in the recent strong match against Manchester United, he personally proved to the world that he also has high defensive performance and tactical discipline.
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