New York Times highlights Farioli among Europe's top-rated managers | OneFootball

Francesco Farioli, FC Porto’s head coach, is featured in “The Athletic”, the sports section of “The New York Times”, which will use the international break to publish profiles of several highly rated coaches on the European stage.

As for the Dragons’ manager, the first profile to be released describes him as “the gentleman Italian coach thriving in Portugal”. “12 of the 20 Serie A clubs changed managers last summer. Yet all of them seemed to overlook one of the brightest talents in Italian football. Some may perhaps have accepted that they could no longer count on Francesco Farioli. (…) The traditional title contenders and the teams fighting for a place in Europe mostly opted for experience. The opportunities at Milan and Inter, for example, may have been seen as coming too soon for the 36-year-old Farioli. (…) It says a lot that Italy’s most modern and progressive coaches work abroad, and have done so for some time,” it reads.

“Even if Farioli’s playing model can be interpreted as typically Italian, it has been reshaped and updated to suit today’s football. (…) Farioli is in a category of his own, existing outside the culture of Italian football,” “The Athletic” also writes.

Regarding FC Porto’s path this season, the publication believes the Italian coach “has handled the ups and downs of this season well”. “What Italy has lost is, for now, a gain for Portugal. Farioli continues to flourish on other horizons,” it concludes.

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