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“My childhood dreams” – Amorim ‘prophesied’ coaching Milan almost a decade ago

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Ruben Amorim will be the next head coach for AC Milan, but he has always known that he wanted to manage the club in the future.

Amorim’s name has been on the rise for a few years now and whilst his stock took a hit with Manchester United, there can be several arguments made that it was not a fair representation of his ability as a manager.


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Nevertheless, he will be given a new opportunity in Serie A to re-establish himself as one of the more exciting younger coaches in the world.

It is also a fresh start for Milan, who are going back to square one, quite literally. However, they are doing so with someone who loves the club and has seen it at its highest.

Amorim’s Milan dream

Indeed, in 2017, Amorim told Tribuna Expresso that he had spent his childhood watching the Rossoneri and hoped to coach them in the future, as Calciomercato.com relays.

“I’m happy. Because as a child, I loved watching Benfica and AC Milan. I remember watching AC Milan videos with Maldini, Baresi, Gullit, Rijkaard, Savicevic… My childhood dreams were to play for Benfica and AC Milan. I achieved one. Now I have to be a coach for the other.”

He is about to fulfil his own prophecy and that chance is rare.

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4 Comments

  1. I can only wish him the best. If the club chose him then they must give him their full backing and support or else he will fail miserably like Fonseca.

    Some players need to be sold though and I wouldn’t have a problem with Milan selling Leao, Tomori, and Gimenez including all the other dead wood players like Estupinan, RLC etc.

  2. Well… Most people (me included) are expecting him to bring Milan into relegation battle instead of the scudetto fight so I guess he doesn’t have much to lose here.

    1. That’s a very dramatic view, he didn’t have the best time at united but who did? The amount of world class managers drowning there. We can’t use them as a measuring tool. The truth is that Amorim is a question mark, Sporting have not been the same since he left so there are also signs he can be a valuable tool for a club.

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