Fiorentina, Paolo Vanoli introduces himself: "I’m not afraid"

Paolo Vanoli, new coach of Fiorentina, introduced himself at a press conference. “I know that so’is Florence – he began -Because here has shown great growth over the years, the president has desire and perhaps it was destiny for me to accept this challenge. These challenges motivate me, they give me energy. And above all I am not afraid, I know it will be long and difficult, in fact I told the boys to keep a clear head. Because getting out of this moment takes a lot of work”.

“Let“s leave the January market alone– added the Viola coach -I have heard many things about the summer preparation: I do not want to compare myself to a person here who has done things for the good of Fiorentina, talking about this or the market would not be correct. Let us think about the next game, which will be important and difficult for us”.

“We have to work match by match, the league now has a different goal from the cup. The’mistake now would be to think about what we can do. Let&#8217s think game by game, in small steps: it&#8217s too important a message. Let&#8217s give ourselves small goals, otherwise we risk for the umpteenth time to go out. I told the boys, “We are down here. Maybe we are even good, but we are down here”. So now we have to put on our helmets. A first answer I had in Genoa, there&#8217s definitely a lot of work to do but I experienced teams that won, with players who didn&#8217t have the presumption of the winner. Now we work with this mentality, from humility: winners do this. This is a place that excites, now we look forward without looking back. We have to give something to our president and our fans, it takes great work, humility and awareness, with great lucidity”.

He then sent a message for the fans: “Today we have to be the ones to win back the fans. I said this to the players, because the fans are doing so much and it is up to us to win them back. How? With sacrifice, desire to conquer something, to get out of this situation. It is time to take responsibility, put our heads down, shut up and accept all criticism”.

On Gudmundsson: “He has to understand me, not the other way around. And also quickly. A little bit’ the same speech as Fagioli, they are important players and they were taken because they have quality, but you have to change mentality. Albert is a player we believe in, but now we are all in the same boat. You cannot look at the technical aspect, every player has to make an extra run for his teammate, starting with the forwards”.

Closing on the possibility of seeing the Kean-Piccoli attacking pair: “There’s an attacking park to exploit. It is like the talk of a three or four-man defense: I have to figure out how to put the attackers in a position to score goals, that is what matters. Piccoli and Kean have very similar characteristics, but if they make themselves available to each other in the future they could also play together. It is not the priority, they have to be good at playing on their own as well and make themselves available to the team”.