Benitez: I hope to win all the time and don’t like teams that are satisfied with being ranked in the middle.

Hupu News, October 12, Istanbul night led Liverpool to a comeback victory over AC Milan in the Champions League final, which is still the highlight of Benitez's career. The legendary coach attended the Trento Sports Festival recently and said he was the real protagonist on the stage, but the story he told went far beyond that one night in Istanbul. He imparted football experience in Trento as if it were an Italian coaching training center. Through anecdotes and laughter he shared with the audience all that he had learned over the years of coaching, experiences formed in his beloved Italian league where he had learned from Capello and Claudio Ranieri in Serie A in the nineties.

Istanbul

"Liverpool fans still stop me when I walk on the street and tell me that it was the best night of their lives. I have to say that that game was so exciting. We had reached the final by beating Juventus and Chelsea, and then played AC Milan in Istanbul and finally won in that shocking comeback. The final in Athens two years later is still a regret because our team played better in the game but ended up losing. And in In Istanbul, we probably performed worse on the pitch but won. I've always believed that if you're successful in multiple leagues, it means you have value as a coach. But taking a small team through league promotion, as I have done three times, means you are a real coach. "

Inter Milan and

"At Inter Milan, I won two trophies, but I didn't like the way they let me leave in the end," he recalled. "There are 15 players in my team who are over 30 years old, and they have won many honors in their previous careers. But we did not make any signings, and later Moratti admitted that it was a mistake. In Naples, I felt special from the first day I entered the team. This experience was very good, and we succeeded in changing The mentality of the team. I don't like teams that are satisfied with being ranked in the middle: Under my leadership, Naples changed their mentality and began to try to win every game. "

Rumors with Juventus

Benitez also revealed that he might have coached Juventus in 2010. "I was in Liverpool at the time and had contact with Juventus. I was very interested, but in the end it didn't happen, but I would rather not say why. "

About his successor

Benitez believes that he has not seen his successor in today's football, although he has many players who later became coaches. One person he didn't expect to see coaching on the sidelines was Christian Chivu.

"As a coach, you can usually have a sense of which players will become coaches in the future when you are leading a team, but I really didn't expect Chivu to become a coach, but I think he will do a good job because he is smart and has a good team. "

Future plans

Benitez is now working with UEFA and is considering whether to return to the coaching bench, perhaps to coach a national team that inspires his passion. "But I want to play to win," he said with a smile. "There was a national team that pursued me to coach them in the World Cup, but I didn't like the idea of ​​going there and losing all the games and going home right away. It wasn't for me."