CAPELLO: WHAT NEXT?

After Capello’ s resignation from English National team was accepted by FA board, one question makes the night of all football fans sleepless: which decision is Capello going to take? Unfortunately the response is still unknown. Not  good news for all football fans forced to remain with their eyes wide open thinking about Capello’ future. Anyway I feel that the solution of Fabio’s case is closer than you might think. In particular  it’s one simple argument making me feel optimistic:  Capello is a rational man - he comes from Pieris a town near Udine where the people, living near the mountains,  are used to being pragmatic and making concrete decisions. Because of this  it seemed strange when Capello resigned as England’s coach. It makes me think that Capello has another opportunity in his pocket. He isn’t the type of person that takes instinctive and irrational decisions. When he made up his mind about resignation from English National team, it’s because he knew something more about his future. I’m sure. Something better than participate at European cup with England almost without a chance to win. Unlikely something is still obscure for us. So we try now to put the puzzle pieces of Capello’s future in the right position.

Once vanished the chance for the Italian trainer to be hired by Anzhi- the Russian team that eventually decided to take on the Dutch coach Guus Hiddink -  two or three concrete options still remain. I think that the traces we have to follow take our search to Italy. Also because of the unwillingness to learn new languages that Fabio showed in England. But to convince me more that the next future of Capello will be in Italy was specially the last statement he released: “My future won’t be in Italy”. As when some years ago Capello said: ”I will never work as Juventus’ coach”, and the year after he became the new Juventus’ coach. Capello often says the opposite of what he thinks. So , I think, the first rule that we have to follow if we want to solve this puzzle is not to give importance to Capello’s statements. In fact Capello sometimes disguise as Pinocchio. 

Regardless what he says, we have to pass to analyze the first option for Fabio: It’s Rome. At Roma’s club  his reliable collaborator Franco Baldini works. At Roma they could recompose the couple that won one “scudetto” in 2001. However this possibility at Rome would be good just for the next year when probably Luis Enrique, actual coach of Roma, could go back to Spain. But to make me doubt regard this eventuality is the limited economic availability of the  yellow&red club that prefer betting on young and cheaper football players for the next future . By the way, another rule we need to follow to solve this puzzle is: Capello goes where money are. So I think Roma is not a concrete possibility. Juventus, instead, would be a good option. First of all because Capello is a big friend of Andrea Agnelli, Juventus’ President. Second because  the black and white club seems to be back to the former glory: thanks to the new “Juventus Stadium” the club is richer and the team is fighting to win the next scudetto. But the problem is represented by the fact  that the new coach Antonio Conte is doing a great job and the corporate structure is complete. So realistically there aren’t available roles for Capello in Juventus.

In my view the third option is the most concrete: this possibility for Capello this time is called Inter. The club of Milano is in crisis. The team is collecting defeats and the actual coach Claudio Ranieri is a dead man walking. If Inter doesn’t  pass the turn in Champions league against Olimpyque Marseille, in fact, Capello could immediately take the place of Ranieri on Inter’s bench. I think Fabio could be the right man: tough and a decision maker like Mourinho, he’s able also to cover the role of the sport director Marco Branca who’s  still at Inter just because he’s a good friend of Massimo Moratti’s son, Angelo Mario. But In Italy many people seems not to believe in  this option because of the opposition of Inter’ s supporters. They don’t like Capello because of his past at Juve, their biggest enemy. But I don’t believe supporters can be a hindrance. Rather the only real problem can be restrained in this question: “Is Moratti willing to invest again a lot of money in the “nerazzurri” club?” if the answer is positive, Capello will be the next coach of Inter, maybe already in this seasons. Unless Chelsea is thinking of him as well…