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Head Coach Joe Montemurro explains that everything is done in service of the football with a view to creating a winning team.<\/p>\n \n \n \n

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By John Portch<\/h6>\n
Joe Montemurro, the Head Coach of Juventus Women, explains that the team\u2019s President, Andrea Agnelli, wishes he had done things differently with the team.<\/h6>\n

\u201cI remember going to a dinner with the owners and sponsors and I was sitting on the same table as Mr Agnelli, and we had a chat,\u201d Montemurro tells the Leaders Performance Institute.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said that one regret he has in life is that he didn\u2019t start the women\u2019s team earlier because he thinks Juventus is a little behind the top teams because he didn\u2019t start five or six years earlier. That probably gives you an understanding of where the club sits in the landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hope of both Agnelli and Montemurro is to see Juventus Women match the success and reputation of the men\u2019s team. Since entering Serie A in 2017, the club has won the scudetto in five consecutive seasons and the aim for the future is to sustain that success<\/a> and build a team that can compete regularly for the Uefa Women\u2019s Champions League.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a saying at Juventus \u2013 \u2018fino alla fine\u2019 \u2013 which means \u2018go to the end\u2019 or \u2018fight to the end\u2019,\u201d says Montemurro. \u201cThere\u2019s another one: \u2018vincere non \u00e8 importante e l\u2019unica cosa che conta\u2019, which means \u2018winning isn\u2019t important, it\u2019s the only thing\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latter was uttered by former Juventus striker and second-highest scorer in the history of the men\u2019s team, Giampiero Boniperti, at the inauguration of the Juventus Stadium in Turin in 2011.<\/p>\n

Such thinking explains why Juventus Women turned to Montemurro in the summer of 2021. He has more than 20 years\u2019 experience as a coach, In 2019, he led Arsenal Women to their first Women\u2019s Super League title in seven years and, before that, claimed back-to-back W-League championships with Melbourne City Women in his native Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of the club\u2019s growth and development was to bring in someone who has a bit of experience in Europe who can take the club to the next level,\u201d says Montemurro. \u201cWe\u2019ve instilled a methodology of play, which is mine. I have moulded it with some good things here in Italy and if you watch the game you\u2019ll see a very identifiable style of mine. There\u2019s been no real handbook that says \u2018this is the Juventus style\u2019 but it\u2019s about representing the club in the right way with the values it has; the level of class with which it struts around in Italy and Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou feel Juventus, you feel the history, you feel the weight of wearing this jumper and that\u2019s a great thing. It\u2019s where you want to be in football and I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Montemurro is also driven by the desire to \u201ceducate\u201d the women\u2019s football landscape in Italy. \u201cIt\u2019s not behind but women\u2019s football in Italy still has a long way to go to find its place.\u201d The 2022-23 season will be the first that Serie A Women is fully professional. \u201cI want to create something that a lot of clubs can use as a template to say \u2018this is how we will grow and get better so the game grows\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has been afforded the space to innovate as there has been buy-in to his ideas across the board. \u201cEverything I\u2019ve brought forward or we\u2019ve brought forward as a group to get better and better and better, we discuss it and look at it, and most of the time it\u2019s actually \u2018hey, I think that\u2019s a good idea, we could do that\u2019. And we\u2019re sometimes talking about little things. Travelling two days before instead of one day before. The ability to innovate, and they\u2019re so open to being this global brand that they\u2019re looking at being the best and being creative. I really like that because it gets my mind ticking to be better and better and better. How can I be better? How can my staff be better? How can everyone around us be better because the club will give you that support but they\u2019ll also say \u2018look, it\u2019s not the right time to do this because of this or that\u2019. There\u2019s never anything discounted.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Juventus Women senior team and academy are closely aligned, as one might expect, but there is also alignment between the women\u2019s team and the Juventus men\u2019s under-23s. \u201cWe work very closely together and follow similar processes to the senior men\u2019s team,\u201d says Montemurro, who likes his multidisciplinary team to be football-driven.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first thing, and I did it at Arsenal and I did it at Juventus, is to make sure that football is at the core of everything that we do because that\u2019s what we\u2019re judged on. It\u2019s funny, because in the word \u2018football\u2019 the latter part of the word is \u2018all\u2019 so I flash that word up and say \u2018it\u2019s all of us\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can then give the base to the medical staff to say, \u2018OK, we\u2019re playing X amount of games, we play this way, we know that we need players who are very good in small areas, they can recover because we play a short passing game\u2019 \u2013 I\u2019m using a very broad example \u2013 \u2018so we need to focus on those things and get players who need to get aerobically fit as part of the game\u2019. They can look at that. The sports science department or the S&C department then look at the football as the base of everything we do. So all of our warm-ups are based on the methodology of the football.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis whole idea of \u2018footb-all\u2019 is as corny and clich\u00e9d as it comes, but it\u2019s important. In the end, I\u2019m just trying to create a football culture. All the other stuff is irrelevant. And I think you get buy-in. When the methodology is clear, when the way you want to play is clear, then the doctors understand, the nutritionists understand, and everyone understands what we\u2019re trying to achieve in the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n

Montemurro also encourages his staff to prioritise their CPD with one request. \u201cOne of the things I tell each department is to stick within the football. CPD is very important, but make yours the best department in the world. Make it the best medical department in the world, make it the best analytics department. It\u2019s your baby, make it you<\/em>. I\u2019m here to help you, obviously we\u2019ve got certain pre-requisites week-in week-out that we need to do, but if you\u2019ve got the opportunity to go and watch a game or watch some training and bring something back and do something, absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Leaders Performance Institute asks Montemurro about the biggest changes he has observed in football coaching in recent years. His answer is informed by his work at Juventus. \u201cThe top coaches are able to ascertain a level of hierarchy and respect, but also have a more human aspect. The head coach isn\u2019t that far away from everything that\u2019s happened. I think it\u2019s becoming more, I don\u2019t know if this is the right word, but more human in terms of the understanding of the player-staff-head coach connection and ascertaining the end goal. Everyone\u2019s more in it together.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think coaches are still just starting to understand that ultimately they have to make decisions but the decisions are more informed through processes. Obviously our scope of work is broader now. We are involved in every aspect of the game. I don\u2019t think it can be left to say \u2018I\u2019m just going to go on the park and Sunday\u2019s my day or game day\u2019s my day\u2019; now it\u2019s really important that everyone\u2019s involved in that. The staff and everyone is involved in how we go forward but obviously with your eye on top of it. I think there\u2019s just been a more human factor and I think that the top coaches are usually empathetic to the wellness and wellbeing of their staff and players. I think that\u2019s been a big change. It\u2019s not just a job any more \u2013 it\u2019s a lifestyle. You\u2019re spending so much time here and you have to make it the best place it can be, and I think we as head coaches \u2013 or I am anyway \u2013 are more concerned about the welfare and wellbeing of your staff and players. That results in performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

What of the coach of the next ten years? \u201cI think the coach of the future is one that will need to understand the sports science, S&C, sports medicine. I just think it\u2019s going that way and I think we need to have a broader understanding of every little bit because, ultimately, if you\u2019re not involved in the market, I know you\u2019ve got scouts and analytics, the scouting and analysis departments do a lot of that work for you, but if you don\u2019t understand the background of the player you\u2019re investing in or the staff that you\u2019re investing in, then how do you deal with them when they\u2019re going forward? They may have had a bad experience at a club and they\u2019re coming into another situation. How do you deal with that?<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the coach of the future will be more educated and understanding of all the other disciplines involved and I think with that will come a new wave of innovation in how we see the game and how we approach the game tactically. It\u2019s already happening with a lot of clubs; the Brentfords and their \u2018Moneyball\u2019 approach. [Bayern Munich men\u2019s Head Coach] Julian Nagelsmann with the big screen next to his training pitch. The level of coaching is going to be so high because everyone\u2019s going to have a great understanding of the discipline that innovation is just going to go to the next level.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe coach of the future is very exciting,\u201d Montemurro concludes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t see it because I\u2019m an old man, but definitely I\u2019ll watch this space from the beach in my holiday home, wherever it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n <\/div>\n

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