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Juventus coach Allegri: Italian football needs to trust their stars

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri believes something needs to change in Italian football if they're produce top individual talent.

Allegri says there's too much focus on tactics in Italy.

"Some people want to turn football into a science, but there's nothing scientific about it. It's a show, and shows are performed by artists.

"We can talk for hours about organisation and patterns of play, but players win you matches.

"If you have [Lionel] Messi you're practically starting the game 2-0 up. It's the same with [Cristiano] Ronaldo.

"If it's tactics that make you win, then why did Real Madrid spend €100m on Bale on the transfer market?

"In Italy if you go to see a game, mark the formation on a piece of paper and then fall asleep, when you wake up an hour later the players will be in exactly the same positions as before.

"If you have people like [Zlatan] Ibra[himovic], [Clarence] Seedorf, [Andrea] Pirlo, [Carlos] Tevez, [Alessandro] Nesta, Thiago Silva or [Leonardo] Bonucci you've got to put your trust in them."

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