Antonio Conte is one of the most successful Italian coaches, at least in recent years, because if we look 20-30 years before, managers like Carlo Ancelotti or Fabio Capello are certainly better. But in the last decade (or more), former Juventus footballer won a lot of trophies. Even in his second managerial job, which was Bari, he won the Serie B trophy and got them promoted. While he took Siena and Atalanta while they were struggling for relegation and couldn’t win anything, he won trophies with Juventus, Chelsea and now Napoli. The only team with whom he failed was Tottenham. Conte was there from November 2021 until March 2023 and didn’t won anything.Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte have both won trophies at every club they’ve managed except for one.Tottenham Hotspur. 😭🤣 pic.twitter.com/aym0UEJT1Y— FootballFunnys (@FootballFunnnys) December 8, 2024 One of the reasons was certainly the club’s mentality, since they haven’t won a single trophy for ages and still were considered a big club. Coming from Juventus and Chelsea and having won titles before, that mentality, which was also adopted by the players was not something he liked. Speaking for Sky Sport Italia in the in-depth Buffa Talks interview, he explained one of those situations.“That was certainly a difficult year. I arrived at Tottenham in November with the team ninth in the table, in the first year we beat Arsenal to the Champions League spot. For Tottenham, you must understand, qualifying for the Champions League is practically the same as winning the Premier League title. I remember at the end of the game with Norwich, there were celebrations in the dressing room. I called my staff over and told them, we’d better not get used to this sort of celebration, meaning we shouldn’t be celebrating Champions League qualification as if it was the Premier League title. We were accustomed to celebrating for very different things” he said.Brentford’s wizzard is now Spurs coachThere were also other things, more personal, which also added to the Conte’s overall performance in London, which was average.“I had signed a contract for a year-and-a-half, to see what situation I was getting into, but all sorts of things happened that year. Ventrone died from leukaemia that took him away in the space of 15 days. That was an incredible blow, emotionally and psychologically, because we had such a strong bond. In the same period, Gianluca Vialli died. I’d seen him a month earlier, along with my wife at a restaurant. He seemed calm, but there was also the sense something was not right. Sinisa Mihajlovic died around then too. I started reconsidering my priorities. My family was in Italy. I started to wonder how much it was really worth it, to sacrifice time with friends and family, when you could face tragedy or simply not be here, from one day to the next. It wasn’t a crisis, but it did make me change some of my priorities” he revealed. In the end, Conte left ‘by mutual consent’ and Spurs needed a coach like Ange Postecoglou to win them the Europa League. But he was recently sacked too.FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP 2025Sunday03:00: (3.40) Al Ahly Cairo (3.70) Inter Miami (2.05)19:00: (1.01) Bayern (17.0) Auckland (60.0)22:00: (1.90) PSG (3.85) Atletico Madrid (4.10)Monday00:55: (2.65) Palmeiras (3.30) Porto (2.70)05:00: (1.95) Botafogo (3.45) Seattle (4.00)***odds are subject to change***
