On 7 November, Genoa announced Shevchenko as the club's new manager, the first club in the coaching career of the "Ukrainian Nuclear Warhead". And shevchenko's choice of assistant coach is still familiar to Serie A fans - Mauro Tassotti.
Tassotti's playing career is well-known in Serie A, playing for AC Milan for 17 seasons, fully experiencing Milan's rise from the second division to the European hegemony.
After retiring from retirement, Tassotti became the coach of the Milan youth team and was promoted to assistant coach of Ancelotti in the 2001–02 season, thus beginning a two-decade career as an assistant coach.
Ancelotti and Tassotti on the pitch are both Saki's right-hand men, bringing countless championship trophies to Milan. This time, the two continued to work together in the coaching bench, and finally won the Champions League twice, and witnessed Shevchenko and Kaka win the Golden Globe Award.
Ancelotti left Milan in the summer of 2009, but Tassotti remained firm in his position, continuing to support the next Milan manager, Leonardo. Leonardo had no coaching license at the time, and his record in the opening stage was sluggish, which once produced rumors of dismissal, but Tassotti assisted the young marshal to quickly resolve the crisis of trust.
Leonardo parted ways with Milan after only a year in charge, after which the Rossoneri chose Allegri, who had succeeded in Cagliari, as manager, while Tassotti was also an assistant coach, who helped the new manager quickly adapt to the new club. In the 2010–11 season, Allegri won the league title in his first season in charge of Milan.
With the Milan squad aging and financial constraints, Allegri's Milan career came to an end in early 2014. After the head coach left the class, Tassotti took on the role of interim manager, leading the team to a 3-1 victory over Spezia in the Coppa Italia, followed by an old acquaintance Seedorf.
Facing Seedorf, who hurriedly hung up his boots and taught him, Tassotti helped him quickly complete the role change, and the two worked together to play a five-game winning streak in the league, but ultimately missed the European seat. At the end of the season, Seedorf left the class, and Tassotti remained in the Milan coaching bench, waiting for the next manager.
The next head coach will be his acquaintance, Filippo Inzaghi. The Milan youth manager took over the whip quickly after Seedorf left. From competing in the same game to becoming a mentor and apprentice to working together, Tassoti still has to help his juniors who have just entered the coaching position to adapt to the job as soon as possible. But this time they all failed, Inzaghi had a difficult start, failed to reverse the decline in the middle and late part of the season, and was eventually sacked by Milan.
Tassotti's teaching assistant career in Milan came to an end. The new manager Mikhailovic brought in his own coaching staff, which also means he will not choose Tassoti as his assistant coach.
This departure from Milan as a teaching assistant is also seen by many as the beginning of Tassotti's transformation. Because Tassotti was 55 years old at this time, he had been in a coaching position for almost 20 years after retiring, and he had never officially been a first-team manager except for a few interim managers.
However, Tassoti still chose to be an assistant coach because another former disciple had sent an invitation.
In the summer of 2016, Shevchenko officially became the coach of the Ukrainian national team, and he quickly invited Tassotti to join his team as assistant coach. The two worked together for five years to help Ukraine reach the final of the European Championship. This summer, he successfully broke through in the group stage of the European Championship and defeated Sweden in the quarter-finals to help Ukraine advance to the quarterfinals of the European Championship for the first time in history. After the European Championship, Shevchenko left the national team, and Tassotti followed.
Shevchenko took office in Genoa, and Tassotti remained with him. Although he has been coaching for 5 years, shevchenko is still a novice at club level, and how to help him quickly adapt to this new job has become Tassotti's task.
Nowadays, Ancelotti has long been famous, Allegri has become the top coach in Italy, Inzaghi has gradually grown in the coaching position, Tassoti has to wear glasses in gray, and the only constant is still his frown and cover his mouth to advise the head coach in the game.
In a world where everyone is vying for the protagonist, Tashotti, who is always willing to be a green leaf, is undoubtedly an "alternative". In those years, when the Milan manager was in a deep crisis of dismissal, there were always fans who would call for "turning Tassotti around". But with the passage of time, The odds of Tassotti becoming the head coach are getting smaller and smaller, and the name of "gold assistant coach" is still loud.