🔥 From Mancio and Trap to Allegri-Sarri again 🔙 when managers come back | OneFootball

In Italian football, coaches often return to where they have already left their mark. Massimiliano Allegri and Maurizio Sarri are the most recent examples: the former returns to Milan after a decade since the separation that followed the 2011 Scudetto and his dismissal in January 2014, while the latter takes over Lazio again just over a year after his departure.

They are not the only ones to sign the encore: Claudio Ranieri has stepped on the Roma bench three times, Walter Mazzarri has had two adventures in Naples, Arrigo Sacchi and Fabio Capello have lived a double cycle at Milan. Also, Juventus has welcomed Marcello Lippi and Giovanni Trapattoni several times, while Luciano Spalletti returned to Roma and Roberto Mancini to Inter. Zdenek Zeman has returned to several clubs, including Roma, after years.

The theme of returns is thus confirmed as a common thread in Serie A, between stories of success and new challenges.

👔 Allegri and his return to Milan

Massimiliano Allegri returns to the Milan bench, over ten years after the separation that followed two trophies, including the 2011 Scudetto.

Already the protagonist of a double cycle at Juventus – the first from 2014 to 2019 with five Scudetti and two Champions League finals, and the second from 2021 to 2024, concluded in May – Allegri now returns to the club where he won his first tricolor as a coach.

🔵⚪️ Sarri at the helm of Lazio

Maurizio Sarri finds himself back at Lazio after leaving the biancoceleste bench last season.

A return that re-proposes the rivalry that had opposed him and Allegri in the run-up to the 2018 Scudetto, when they sat on the benches of Napoli and Juventus.

🟡🔴 Ranieri's third time at Roma

Claudio Ranieri has experienced three returns to the Roma bench, to which he added a fourth assignment as a manager.

After the almost-Scudetto of 2010 and the brief parenthesis of 2019, the last return in 2024 revitalized the environment, bringing the team to Europe and narrowly missing the Champions League.

🔵 Mazzarri and the second time in Naples

Walter Mazzarri returned to Napoli in the 2023-2024 season, after the first experience from 2009 to 2013 with the "three tenors" Cavani, Lavezzi, and Hamsik, a third and a second place in the league, the 2012 Coppa Italia, and a European campaign interrupted by Chelsea.

The second cycle, however, ended with his dismissal.

🔴⚫️ Sacchi and Capello, the returns to Milan

Arrigo Sacchi returned to Milan in 1996-1997, failing to replicate the wonders of his first cycle, which ended with triumphs and trophies.

Fabio Capello, on the other hand, was recalled by Berlusconi in 1997-1998 to revive the team after Sacchi's second cycle, but for him too, the return ended with a disappointing tenth place.

⚫️⚪️ Trapattoni in three decades and Lippi's second time at Juve

Giovanni Trapattoni coached Juventus from 1976 to 1986, winning fourteen trophies. He returned in 1991 for his third decade in bianconero, adding a UEFA Cup to his palmares.

Marcello Lippi led Juventus from 1994 to 1999, winning three Scudetti and the Champions League. After an experience at Inter, he returned to Turin in 2001 and won two more titles until 2004.

🔵⚫️ Mancini's second time at Inter

Roberto Mancini returned to Inter in 2014, after having coached them from 2004 to 2008 and starting the cycle that Mourinho would bring to the treble.

The second experience ended with a fourth place, after an illusory first half of the season.

🟡🔴 Spalletti and Zeman at Roma

Luciano Spalletti returned to the Roma bench in 2016, after the first adventure from 2005 to 2009. In the second parenthesis, the giallorossa team finished second.

Zdenek Zeman was the protagonist of returns to Foggia, Lecce, Pescara, and especially Roma. His second cycle in giallorosso, thirteen years after the first, ended with his dismissal in February.

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