'Sarrismo': An ex-banker is revolutionizing Italian soccer AP ROME (AP) — He reads Charles Bukowski, wears retro spectacles, and hunches over to … “San Paolo was completely full. We wanted to support him, to explore the philosophy behind his football, and we decided to use a Soviet-style rhetoric that perfectly fits to his personality. Three sarristas manage the Facebook page, as well as a Twitter account, @sarrismofficial. "La bellezza, senza dubbio, non fa le rivoluzioni. They explain to us that when they started the page three and a half years ago, “Sarri was already criticised for not using his whole squad. Sarri’s Chelsea play Cardiff on Saturday (3pm) hoping to extend their winning start to the season to five games. It sits somewhere between Pep Guardiola’s positional play and Jurgen Klopp’s heavy metal football. And it was wonderful.”, And they attached a video of Sarri sending his regards to all the, you can buy our magazine or subscribe for a year here, JAMIE CURETON IS THE LAST OF THE GOAL HANGERS. I know. He won and changed the entire world of football with his footballing philosophy. Sarrismo became a cult page for Napoli fans as they enjoyed exciting football under Sarri’s management. “His philosophy of play, the 'sarrism', won the much sought after entry among our neologisms.”. There’s nothing new about it. They are known as. But regardless of what happens, Sarri’s most fervent supporters will always back him. "They are two geniuses who help the evolution of this beautiful sport.". This is how, in a message to their followers, they described their brief encounter: “Today Il Comandante has welcomed at Cobham a small delegation of our Central Committee [Ed note: this is how they describe themselves, the admins of the page]. But then Juve won a match against Inter and Napoli lost against Fiorentina the following day,” they recall. “The Scudetto dream was over.”, Still, fans turned up in numbers for their last home game against Crotone. Tough defeats away against Bournemouth (4–0) and Manchester City (6–0) intensified an already existing tension from the fans. First trophy of the season for Maurizio Sarri. They are known as sarristas, faithful defenders of sarrismo, a term that was included in the well-regarded Italian Treccani Encyclopedia last September under the following definition: “The football idea advocated by the manager Maurizio Sarri, based on speed and offensive propensity; by extension, the interpretation of Sarri’s personality as an expression of the soul of the city of Naples and its football fans.”. It is more direct to the famous tiki-taka style of Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona. Higuain transferred to rival Juventus for an Italian-record 90 million euros ($100 million) and could — broken hand permitting — face Napoli on Friday in what is being billed as a potentially decisive match in the title race. They post images, press conference videos, reflections, open letters, and they have even organised events for, to meet up to discuss the man they refer to as, Gianmarco Volpe, Fabio Piscopo, and Claudio Starita—all in their 30s—are the three admins of Sarrismo. —in fact, all Napoli fans—will fondly remember their team’s efforts. Part of the mystique surrounding Sarri is that he toiled in relative obscurity in the lower divisions and provinces of Italian soccer for decades before finally reaching the top division in 2014 via promotion with Empoli at the age of 55. With Chelsea now banned from making any new transfers, it will not be easy for him. Sarri wants to win but also pursues beauty: the path is more important than the destination. We met up with other, before going to the stadium. Who knows if this will be a turning point: if Sarri will be able to reconquer Stamford Bridge. Ma viene un giorno in cui le rivoluzioni hanno bisogno della bellezza" (Albert Camus, L'uomo in rivolta) They are mainly Italian football fans who fell for him: both for his style and his personality. It was in Sarri's first season at Napoli that Gonzalo Higuain resurrected his career by scoring 36 goals to break a 66-year-old Serie A record. We decided to be those 18. A victory for Napoli would be a massive achievement for Sarri — and for "Sarrismo. They post images, press conference videos, reflections, open letters, and they have even organised events for sarristas to meet up to discuss the man they refer to as Il Comandante. Sarrismo had popularised the hashtag #FinoAlPalazzo (which can be translated as ‘to the palace’, another reference to their extended revolutionary metaphor) and in one pregame interview, Sarri even used that expression himself. Sarri, however, has been responsible for transforming players like Dries Mertens, Lorenzo Insigne and Jose Callejon into world-class strikers. The manager has proved a hit at Stamford Bridge, winning his first four games in the Premier League. This story has been corrected to show Sarri was promoted to the top division in 2014, not 2012, and that he was 55, not 53. When Napoli handed Sarri his first elite job in 2015, he wasn't even the first choice of club president Aurelio De Laurentiis. Despite the general praise from fans and pundits regarding his football tactics, Sarri has not managed to impress Graeme Souness so far. They ended up losing in the title race, but all sarristas—in fact, all Napoli fans—will fondly remember their team’s efforts. Sarri rarely lasted long in one place, often fired after only a month on the job for clashing with club ownership. “Napoli had won the match against Juventus at Turin, a result beyond any expectation. And a few weeks ago, a small group of sarristas met him at Chelsea’s training ground in Cobham.
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