Italian Challenge for the Australian Championship. Alino Diamante, 38, won with his Western United team. Decisive for Neroverde coached by John Aloisi (two seasons with Cremonese in the ’90s) to qualify for the final with a Melbourne Victory semi-final win over Fabrizio Camaratta, Biancoblo assistant coach, Francesco Margiotta, former Chievo striker, and Joshua Bryant, ex-Empoli, Fiorentina and Como.
Camaratta has just returned home, after a busy and satisfying year alongside Australian football giants such as Victory coach Tony Popovic, but at the end of the month he will be back on the pitch: pre-season and a ‘luxury friendly’, on July 15, in front of a hundred thousand spectators, against Manchester United.
“It was a great experience – he says – football in Australia turned out to be more advanced and up-to-date than I thought before I got there. Our team, which we won the National Cup and finished second on the Premier’s Plate, will be the semi-finals of the A-leagues on Title and playoffs for the AFC Champions (eliminated by Iniesta Kobe, ndc) Competitive to do streak B Dr. Popovic Great coach, tireless worker, goes straight into the goal and only looks at the pitch The drills are sophisticated, intense and involve a lot of work with the ball. We played really good football, with 4-2-3-1 where the attacking wings were real strikers.In the end, we lacked the details to get to the bottom and win the title: in the semi-final we were eliminated by Alino Diamante, Western United, who won after It’s a scudetto. I am delighted to have another year of contract with Victory and to be able to continue this great experience.”
Camarata is not just a “second”: Popovic entrusted him with work in the offensive stage of the team and they are in constant synergy, in training and in the match. “The choices are obviously always up to him, but he has created a wonderful human and professional relationship. We understood each other from our first phone call, a year ago, when I was still in Albania… I have to say my thanks to my friend Vincenzo Grella (former Parma midfielder, Today in the technical staff of the Australian Federation, ndc) to introduce me to Popovic and Australian football. Incredible fact, with super organized clubs, modern and functional structures, great fans and followers: I have traveled a lot so far, but this is at the moment the most beautiful adventure of my career as a manager. The future On the 27th we will start training, then we will play a luxurious match against United and the Championship Cup. The tournament will start in October, but it will stop during the World Cup.”
Successful group trips Kamata: Russia (Grozny, Chechnya), Oman, Albania, Australia. Is it possible that no one will take him in Italy? At C, they offered me a seat, but then they asked me: ‘Do you have a sponsor? “Instead of submitting to these games, I prefer to train in a football school….”
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