Legendary Italian health coach Gian Piero Ventrone, who has been a part of Antonio Conte’s workers at Tottenham for the previous yr, has died abruptly on the age of 61.
In keeping with Italian media, the health guru – whose notoriously gruelling regimes earned him the nickname ‘The Marine’ in his homeland – handed away on Thursday from acute leukaemia.
Ventrone had been seen within the Tottenham dugout as lately as three weeks in the past for the north Londoners’ win over Leicester Metropolis, with the information rocking the membership.
A press release from Spurs on Thursday confirmed: ‘We're devastated to announce that health coach Gian Piero Ventrone has handed away.
‘The 61-year-old joined the membership in November, 2021, as a part of Antonio Conte’s backroom workers, having beforehand held roles at Juventus, Catania, JS Suning, GZ Evergrande and AC Ajaccio.
‘As loveable off the pitch as he was demanding on it, Gian Piero rapidly grew to become a vastly widespread determine with gamers and workers.
‘He might be tremendously missed by everybody on the membership and our ideas are along with his household and buddies at this impossibly unhappy time.’
Regardless of his demanding health classes which left gamers gasping for breath and even vomiting, Ventrone was vastly widespread throughout the dressing room at Spurs and was seen as a father determine by most of the gamers.
Ventrone’s strategies had been thrust into the highlight in the summertime, when his notorious operating drill – which sees gamers run 42 lengths of the pitch after a full coaching session – went viral as Tottenham stars corresponding to Harry Kane and Son Heung-min collapsed to the ground in exhaustion.
Son had a very shut relationship with Ventrone and praised the Italian after he bagged his hat-trick towards Leicester final month, having shared a hug with the coach on the pitch.
‘He's a killer however I've a extremely, actually good relationship with Gian Piero,’ stated the South Korean. ‘So clearly his English isn't excellent, typically he's coming along with his telephone and translating into English from Italian.
‘It means so much. Not as football-wise, I feel life-wise he provides me a lot recommendation, which I'm actually grateful.
‘He has been so useful, giving me all the time a giant hug in robust occasions and even nice occasions he has all the time been subsequent to me and each workers.
‘Even at present earlier than we left the coaching floor, the resort, we had a few minutes of getting a pleasant dialog which made me actually snug and actually grateful.’
Ventrone made his identify with Juventus, spending a decade on the membership between 1994 and 2004 – a interval which noticed the Italian giants win the Champions League with a workforce that really featured Conte.
Explaining his strategies, the health coach beforehand stated: ‘Let’s make clear a fundamental idea: tougher coaching doesn't imply higher, in any other case we might practice the gamers just like the Marines. It’s easy, we practice them like particular departments and after two days there isn't a one left on the pitch.’
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