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My English translation of TuttoJuve’s transcript of Conte and Chiellini’s press conference before Bayern match on 4/9/2013 http://www.tuttojuve.com/?action=read&idnotizia=135588
Q: What is the mood of the team?
Conte: ” We have the right mood. We are in good spirits, it was helped by fact we won in league, we confirmed our position at top of standings, and now we face the return match of quarterfinals against a team that is certainly very strong, that proved it’s strength in first match. From our side we have desire, joy, serenity in facing this return match, but there is also the will and knowledge that we will certainly play a different match than first leg”
Chiellini: “There is a strong desire to do well, we have great enthusiasm and we want to play a great match, we believe and we want to make it until the end. When it’s over we will make an assessment, but we will certainly leave the field with no regrets, knowing we gave it all. We know we are facing a great team, but we also know we can do well. We certainly want to live a beautiful evening”
Q: Antonio, did the first match tell you something about your team or Bayern that you didn’t know? Also did that match show the difference between the two teams. You said that there is a difference of budgets that creates the gap. Or, like Chiellini said after the match, that difference was so large because Juve did not play up to it’s potential.
Conte: “The first match certainly confirmed what we knew, what we saw, a very strong team, with great technique, but also a team that is very athletic and physical. So we had a confirmation that Bayern is a very strong team and is certainly amongst the favorite to win the Champions League. I repeat the concept that Bayern is a team that has worked in these years to be where it is. It is a team that is always shining, in the past 3 years it made the Champions League final twice, so it is a team that in all these years had the opportunity to work and to arrive to very high levels, both on the field and as a club. We, I repeat, started a new journey: this is the second season- since as far as I am concerned this journey started when I arrived- and it’s the first season that we participate in Champions League after many years of difficulties, many years that for many reasons Juventus had to build something that was destroyed, and this is the gap: we face a team that worked very much in these years to arrive where it is, while we have just started our journey. It is inevitable that if we want to find a sky scraper that is already built, that sky scraper would be Bayern. We are building and maybe we are half way through the effort, maybe one third, since we still have to work a lot. This is the gap that exists, but we are serene because this is to be expected, then tomorrow we will have this match. I am certain the difference between us and Bayern is not what we saw in first match”
Q: Do you expect a certain reaction from Buffon, Pirlo and the more experienced players that were heavily criticized? You know what Beckenbauer said about Buffon. Could it hurt his pride? To Giorgio I want to ask what have you seen from Buffon this week. Did you joke about it, how did he take it, seen that he said it was his worst game in Champions League?
Conte: “We know we played a poor game, everyone, so from our side there is a great desire, will to play a different type of game. We know we are facing a a very very strong team, but we also know that we can do a lot better than what we showed in Germany. So from this point of view, I am serene and calm, I know my players have a desire to show what we didn’t accomplish in Germany. We will see what happens tomorrow.
Chiellini:“I believe Gigi (Buffon) wasn’t really impacted by Beckenbauer’s words, it has been discussed a lot in last few days, but for the players, managers, Bayern’s coach it is a closed subject so our desire is to think of this match and we can’t wait to be on pitch tomorrow”
Q: I wanted to know from Antonio, since you often asked for the pit in the stadium and tomorrow it will certainly be there, if in these cases the coach has to also work to make sure players aren’t tense, seen that there is the risk the fans can push team too far. I wanted to ask Giorgio if there can be this danger of being too stimulated from the crowd and attack too much at beginning..
Conte: “I begin by saying that there must be great joy within us and in the Juventus fan, seen that after a lot of time we return to living the eve and some matches of really high level, like the match tomorrow of the quarter finals with Bayern Munich, we must not forget this ever, not us and neither the fans. So it is great to be here, it’s great that we will play return match against an excellent team and this certainly makes us very happy, our crowd needs to give us strength, enthusiasm, desire, we need to pushed by our crowd, our fans that are finally a type of air they haven’t breathed in awhile. We cannot forget this, because if we remember this, we will give a little bit more, if someone forgets it then we will not have right conditions”
Chiellini:“Certainly in the city, with our fans we can feel this desire to accomplish this task, we can smell it in center of town, because many remained here since Saturday and you can feel it just by walking around. However, we are used to handling pressure and we certainly there will be great desire and the crowd will helps us play a great match, with great enthusiasm, but I believe it would lunacy to just attack for the sake of attacking, giving them a chance to counter attack. So, we will certainly play our match, but I don’t think there is a danger (of being too aggressive)”
Q: Bayern’s coach praised Juventus, its style of play its players. He said Juve is capable of changing the impossible to possible. Do you believe he says it out of fear?
Conte: “We certainly thanks Heynckes for his nice words. I hope that tomorrow, in the press conference after the match he can say “I told you so”
Q:” Starting with the Ribery episode, who was chastised by his own coach for his foul on Vidal, and going with your experience as a player, can you think of a match you can associate this with tomorrow’s match?
Conte:”No, honestly I can’t think of other matches. I believe the first match demonstrated from their end great attention, great ruthlessness, great intensity, they truly did everything they were supposed in everything. We hope to be a little lucky with the episodes, I am referring to the second goal scored on offside and the missed red card for Ribery. I hope in that sense we will be luckier”
Q:The fact that there is a lot of insistence- you did before first match and today as well- on remembering where Juve was and where it is now, gives the impression that what you accomplished in the league gives everyone the excuse to always expect great performances. Therefore it would be a disappointment in case you get eliminated. Then after the match against Pescara you said Vucinic needs to understand he is a great goal scorer. Is this the match you expect more from Vucinic?
Conte:”I tend to underline our journey because often and willingly the media speaks of Juve for years (unclear phrase IMO). Just today I heard on TV “It was many years we hadn’t seen such a bad Juve” and I say: how many years do you mean? It has been 18 months that we are working and this proves it is easy to forget. When I say these things, I say them mainly for the media because they often think everything is easy, instead winning in life and those who talk about winning have never won anything in their lives, they don’t even know how that begins. That is why from my end there is always this desire to remind that there is a journey to follow, that we are ahead of schedule, that we found some shortcuts because we worked hard and that we find ourselves doing something extraordinary in playing in quarterfinals of Champions League, where only two years ago we weren’t even playing in Europa League. So it is important to me that to underline this because some forget this, and sometimes I think they do it on purpose. Regarding Vucinic, I repeat what I already said: he needs to believe in himself, he needs to understand he is a striker that can arrive to 20 goals and has to believe it, he has great attributes”
Q: What is the strategy to ovecome the 2 goal deficit against Bayern? I am not saying score 3. Is Chiellini right when he says we shouldn’t just go all out in attacking? Or do you need to do something crazy?
Conte: (laughs) “We will certainly try to play a very different match from first leg. We studied that match in a detailed manner, we certainly have to give more on the pitch than in first leg. Maybe it was the atmosphere, the level of the match, a little bit of everything that made us cautious. Therefore we will try to play a match worthy of Juve, the type of game that we have accustomed people in last 18 months, while knowing we are facing a very strong team , maybe the strongest Bayern ever. But this doesn’t scare us, it charges us even more to try to accomplish this great feat”
Q: Do you think it could be Quagliarella’s night, since sometimes you need something crazy? You also get the impression Anelka gave up?
Conte: “I hope it is the night of every Juventino, not just one in particular. I hope so since we need many, we need the team, we do not need the individual, because I believe in the concept that it is difficult for the individual to make a team win if there isn’t the entire collective to help his qualities. Therefore tomorrow I hope that all of Juve’s players will have a great game and will be fulfilled. Regarding Anelka, absolutely not. Anelka had some problems to his calf, it is since the eve of Pescara match that he hasn’t practiced with us, since he had some family issues. He practiced in the days we rested, Sunday, and he felt some physical problems. I did not get the impression, and I hope none of my players give me the impression they are giving up”
Q: One thing to Chiellini, in these 18 months in which you have completely changed your way of playing, I do not remember ever seeing an opposing team pressing the defenders as much when you were starting your actions. If this was one of the things that gave you difficulty in Munich and if this is one of the things Conte refered to, so one of the things you studied from first leg and so is this one of the keys to change return match..
Chiellini: ”They were certainly very good at pressing us at the back, but in the end not just on the 3 defenders, but they also blocked our passing lanes. I believe the issue was the rhythm and intensity they brought compared to us in first match, because they run in a different manner, many of those situations where we struggled, I believe would have been different (unclear phrase). We watched the game together, but honestly I believe many of us had seen it individually as well. We certainly know and we are preparing in a way to counter their pressing, but we had also done so in first match. We will need a different attitude”
Q: Transfer Period?
Conte: ”I repeat the concept that I will be grateful to this group of players for the rest of my life, in every way, because we were able to do something extraordinary in a short period of time, winning in Italy the Scudetto last season, a Super Cup and to arrive to quarterfinals of Champions League, and to be in the running to win also this season. So I will always be grateful to this group of players, they gives me joy and satisfaction in every way. Then eventually, these other discussions can be had at end of season with the club with whom I have a very honest and blunt relationship, we will evaluate the plans to have: advancing or not advancing in Champions League”
Q: What is the mood of the team?
Conte: ” We have the right mood. We are in good spirits, it was helped by fact we won in league, we confirmed our position at top of standings, and now we face the return match of quarterfinals against a team that is certainly very strong, that proved it’s strength in first match. From our side we have desire, joy, serenity in facing this return match, but there is also the will and knowledge that we will certainly play a different match than first leg”
Chiellini: “There is a strong desire to do well, we have great enthusiasm and we want to play a great match, we believe and we want to make it until the end. When it’s over we will make an assessment, but we will certainly leave the field with no regrets, knowing we gave it all. We know we are facing a great team, but we also know we can do well. We certainly want to live a beautiful evening”
Q: Antonio, did the first match tell you something about your team or Bayern that you didn’t know? Also did that match show the difference between the two teams. You said that there is a difference of budgets that creates the gap. Or, like Chiellini said after the match, that difference was so large because Juve did not play up to it’s potential.
Conte: “The first match certainly confirmed what we knew, what we saw, a very strong team, with great technique, but also a team that is very athletic and physical. So we had a confirmation that Bayern is a very strong team and is certainly amongst the favorite to win the Champions League. I repeat the concept that Bayern is a team that has worked in these years to be where it is. It is a team that is always shining, in the past 3 years it made the Champions League final twice, so it is a team that in all these years had the opportunity to work and to arrive to very high levels, both on the field and as a club. We, I repeat, started a new journey: this is the second season- since as far as I am concerned this journey started when I arrived- and it’s the first season that we participate in Champions League after many years of difficulties, many years that for many reasons Juventus had to build something that was destroyed, and this is the gap: we face a team that worked very much in these years to arrive where it is, while we have just started our journey. It is inevitable that if we want to find a sky scraper that is already built, that sky scraper would be Bayern. We are building and maybe we are half way through the effort, maybe one third, since we still have to work a lot. This is the gap that exists, but we are serene because this is to be expected, then tomorrow we will have this match. I am certain the difference between us and Bayern is not what we saw in first match”
Q: Do you expect a certain reaction from Buffon, Pirlo and the more experienced players that were heavily criticized? You know what Beckenbauer said about Buffon. Could it hurt his pride? To Giorgio I want to ask what have you seen from Buffon this week. Did you joke about it, how did he take it, seen that he said it was his worst game in Champions League?
Conte: “We know we played a poor game, everyone, so from our side there is a great desire, will to play a different type of game. We know we are facing a a very very strong team, but we also know that we can do a lot better than what we showed in Germany. So from this point of view, I am serene and calm, I know my players have a desire to show what we didn’t accomplish in Germany. We will see what happens tomorrow.
Chiellini:“I believe Gigi (Buffon) wasn’t really impacted by Beckenbauer’s words, it has been discussed a lot in last few days, but for the players, managers, Bayern’s coach it is a closed subject so our desire is to think of this match and we can’t wait to be on pitch tomorrow”
Q: I wanted to know from Antonio, since you often asked for the pit in the stadium and tomorrow it will certainly be there, if in these cases the coach has to also work to make sure players aren’t tense, seen that there is the risk the fans can push team too far. I wanted to ask Giorgio if there can be this danger of being too stimulated from the crowd and attack too much at beginning..
Conte: “I begin by saying that there must be great joy within us and in the Juventus fan, seen that after a lot of time we return to living the eve and some matches of really high level, like the match tomorrow of the quarter finals with Bayern Munich, we must not forget this ever, not us and neither the fans. So it is great to be here, it’s great that we will play return match against an excellent team and this certainly makes us very happy, our crowd needs to give us strength, enthusiasm, desire, we need to pushed by our crowd, our fans that are finally a type of air they haven’t breathed in awhile. We cannot forget this, because if we remember this, we will give a little bit more, if someone forgets it then we will not have right conditions”
Chiellini:“Certainly in the city, with our fans we can feel this desire to accomplish this task, we can smell it in center of town, because many remained here since Saturday and you can feel it just by walking around. However, we are used to handling pressure and we certainly there will be great desire and the crowd will helps us play a great match, with great enthusiasm, but I believe it would lunacy to just attack for the sake of attacking, giving them a chance to counter attack. So, we will certainly play our match, but I don’t think there is a danger (of being too aggressive)”
Q: Bayern’s coach praised Juventus, its style of play its players. He said Juve is capable of changing the impossible to possible. Do you believe he says it out of fear?
Conte: “We certainly thanks Heynckes for his nice words. I hope that tomorrow, in the press conference after the match he can say “I told you so”
Q:” Starting with the Ribery episode, who was chastised by his own coach for his foul on Vidal, and going with your experience as a player, can you think of a match you can associate this with tomorrow’s match?
Conte:”No, honestly I can’t think of other matches. I believe the first match demonstrated from their end great attention, great ruthlessness, great intensity, they truly did everything they were supposed in everything. We hope to be a little lucky with the episodes, I am referring to the second goal scored on offside and the missed red card for Ribery. I hope in that sense we will be luckier”
Q:The fact that there is a lot of insistence- you did before first match and today as well- on remembering where Juve was and where it is now, gives the impression that what you accomplished in the league gives everyone the excuse to always expect great performances. Therefore it would be a disappointment in case you get eliminated. Then after the match against Pescara you said Vucinic needs to understand he is a great goal scorer. Is this the match you expect more from Vucinic?
Conte:”I tend to underline our journey because often and willingly the media speaks of Juve for years (unclear phrase IMO). Just today I heard on TV “It was many years we hadn’t seen such a bad Juve” and I say: how many years do you mean? It has been 18 months that we are working and this proves it is easy to forget. When I say these things, I say them mainly for the media because they often think everything is easy, instead winning in life and those who talk about winning have never won anything in their lives, they don’t even know how that begins. That is why from my end there is always this desire to remind that there is a journey to follow, that we are ahead of schedule, that we found some shortcuts because we worked hard and that we find ourselves doing something extraordinary in playing in quarterfinals of Champions League, where only two years ago we weren’t even playing in Europa League. So it is important to me that to underline this because some forget this, and sometimes I think they do it on purpose. Regarding Vucinic, I repeat what I already said: he needs to believe in himself, he needs to understand he is a striker that can arrive to 20 goals and has to believe it, he has great attributes”
Q: What is the strategy to ovecome the 2 goal deficit against Bayern? I am not saying score 3. Is Chiellini right when he says we shouldn’t just go all out in attacking? Or do you need to do something crazy?
Conte: (laughs) “We will certainly try to play a very different match from first leg. We studied that match in a detailed manner, we certainly have to give more on the pitch than in first leg. Maybe it was the atmosphere, the level of the match, a little bit of everything that made us cautious. Therefore we will try to play a match worthy of Juve, the type of game that we have accustomed people in last 18 months, while knowing we are facing a very strong team , maybe the strongest Bayern ever. But this doesn’t scare us, it charges us even more to try to accomplish this great feat”
Q: Do you think it could be Quagliarella’s night, since sometimes you need something crazy? You also get the impression Anelka gave up?
Conte: “I hope it is the night of every Juventino, not just one in particular. I hope so since we need many, we need the team, we do not need the individual, because I believe in the concept that it is difficult for the individual to make a team win if there isn’t the entire collective to help his qualities. Therefore tomorrow I hope that all of Juve’s players will have a great game and will be fulfilled. Regarding Anelka, absolutely not. Anelka had some problems to his calf, it is since the eve of Pescara match that he hasn’t practiced with us, since he had some family issues. He practiced in the days we rested, Sunday, and he felt some physical problems. I did not get the impression, and I hope none of my players give me the impression they are giving up”
Q: One thing to Chiellini, in these 18 months in which you have completely changed your way of playing, I do not remember ever seeing an opposing team pressing the defenders as much when you were starting your actions. If this was one of the things that gave you difficulty in Munich and if this is one of the things Conte refered to, so one of the things you studied from first leg and so is this one of the keys to change return match..
Chiellini: ”They were certainly very good at pressing us at the back, but in the end not just on the 3 defenders, but they also blocked our passing lanes. I believe the issue was the rhythm and intensity they brought compared to us in first match, because they run in a different manner, many of those situations where we struggled, I believe would have been different (unclear phrase). We watched the game together, but honestly I believe many of us had seen it individually as well. We certainly know and we are preparing in a way to counter their pressing, but we had also done so in first match. We will need a different attitude”
Q: Transfer Period?
Conte: ”I repeat the concept that I will be grateful to this group of players for the rest of my life, in every way, because we were able to do something extraordinary in a short period of time, winning in Italy the Scudetto last season, a Super Cup and to arrive to quarterfinals of Champions League, and to be in the running to win also this season. So I will always be grateful to this group of players, they gives me joy and satisfaction in every way. Then eventually, these other discussions can be had at end of season with the club with whom I have a very honest and blunt relationship, we will evaluate the plans to have: advancing or not advancing in Champions League”
