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CorSport – Conte vs Allegri: The Two Most Titled Coaches in Serie A Meet Again! A Comparison of Their Numbers…

Massimiliano Allegri and Antonio Conte will face each other as opponents on Sunday evening at San Siro, with one leading Milan and the other Napoli. The match kicks off at 8:45 PM, marking a journey back in time interrupted on October 6, 2013. That was the date of their last encounter: in Turin, at the Stadium, Antonio was leading Juventus and Max was with Milan, ending 3-2. In July, eight months later, in 2014, their worlds would be turned upside down: Conte would leave with a mutual termination after winning three consecutive championships, and Allegri, dismissed by the Devil in January, would become the coach of Juve, winning five more consecutive titles.

And here begins another story filled with numbers and triumphs, tactics and technique, passion and champions, cunning and strategy: Milan-Napoli will already be a very important match for the league standings, as it will be a clash between the top-ranked team with a perfect score – Napoli, 12 points – against one of the two second-placed teams trailing by 3 – along with Roma. It will also be a clash between the cannibals. The most titled in Italy at the moment. The two coaches who have dominated the Serie A scene without rivals over the last fifteen championships, winning eleven titles from the 2010-2011 season to the 2024-2025 season and writing recent history. Allegri opened with Milan and Conte closed with Napoli. In between: Max was a five-time champion with Juventus from 2015 to 2019, as mentioned, and Antonio won four more with Juve from 2012 to 2014 and with Inter in 2021. A tyranny interrupted by only four: Sarri with Juve (2020), Pioli with Milan (2022), Spalletti with Napoli (2023), Simone Inzaghi with Inter (2024).

Their respective victories alone would make the night at San Siro incredibly fascinating, but there is much more. It is clear: Conte's Napoli has suddenly, or at least ahead of schedule, become the team to beat, managing the dual commitment with the Champions League, and Allegri's Milan is in full evolution after two years of disappointments and even without Europe. And for the rest, almost everything with Juve in the background: the reign of the Lady lasting eight consecutive years with them at the helm; the Allegri-Conte succession in the summer of 2014, with Antonio deciding to end the relationship at the start of the training camp due to disagreements over future plans despite three consecutive titles, and with Max continuing the streak and taking them to eight; Conte's speech at Vinovo rallying the Juventus players chasing the league-leading Milan, saying that "if others want to win the title, they must bleed until the last day." He would win, with Juve.

Two fierce, two passionate, two pragmatic coaches, two strategists, two masters of the field. Two winners, each with their own methods. Allegri is second in Serie A appearances behind Gasp, 510 to 603, and Conte is seventh with 245. They also boast the best points average: 2.26 for Conte and 2 for Allegri. So much football. Yet, they haven't crossed paths in twelve years. Since 2013: the year Benedict XVI renounced the papacy and Francis arrived; the year they righted the Concordia at Giglio, the re-election of Napolitano at the Quirinale, the Boston Marathon bombings, and Schumacher's skiing accident. In total, considering Conte's two stints in the Premier League and their respective breaks, they have faced each other nine times as coaches in all competitions, with Antonio remaining unbeaten on seven occasions, winning the last three. Before time stopped: on Sunday, it will be a pleasure to meet again. And to find them: after all, they are the history of the last fifteen years of Italian football.

Carlo Gioia

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