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Gabriella to ,” said Barrett Gross “Her extensive experience with Italian design brands has allowed her to hit the ground running Her insight and expertise have had an immediate impact on the many significant marketing opportunities currently in development building on the tremendous success we’ve experienced since our founding in 2019.” Vivaldi previously served as the marketing manager for Moroso a manufacturer of couture Italian upholstered furniture she oversaw the international brand’s US and South American territories helping to launch the company’s Madison Avenue showroom in New York City Vivaldi also currently serves as a board member for the not-for-profit Soho Design District supervising their digital and social media marketing Signup for your daily digest of industry news and trends Some of the forms and images on this page may not work correctly with this enabled Please disable your ad blocker for this page Find the ad blocker icon installed on your browser This icon is usually located on the upper right side of your screen You may have more than one ad blocker installed Click the icon and disable the ad blocker for this website either by following prompts or clicking your browser’s “refresh” or “reload” button Home Accents Today covers the major domestic home furnishings and gift markets manufacturers and distributors with the most comprehensive “first look” at trends Sign up to get exclusive industry information delivered to your inbox Italy players scattered like a kit of pigeons outside the Doge’s Palace in Venice’s St Mark’s Square carefully calibrating his aim in preparation for a free kick eight of his team-mates divided themselves into two lines of four and positioned themselves in front of the Poland wall The crowd in Gdansk turned and looked at each other quizzically Poland goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski was confused too spitting in his gloves and wondering what on earth was going on one of the blue walls broke up like a dandelion hit by a gust of wind One sprinted back towards Pellegrini and called for a pass the others turned on their heels and dashed into the Poland penalty area Pellegrini ignored them all and his curling shot struck a Polish head rather than the back of the net A goalless Nations League game last October seemed destined to turn into one of those memory orbs from the Pixar film Inside Out that fade and ultimately get dumped for those who recognised a signature in Italy’s unorthodox set-piece scheme Manager Roberto Mancini had just tipped his hand Only one man could be responsible for such a creative and outlandish routine — an agent of carefully choreographed chaos by the name of Gianni Vio In The Athletic’s big read on the cultural revolution behind Italy’s revival where a data-integrated approach and the new progressive core values behind the national team were distilled like the pomace that goes into making the finest Marolo Now the time has come to fly like one of those winged lions in St Mark’s whose football team merged with Venezia back in the 1980s which explains why the best jersey in football last season had a slice of orange running through it like an Aperol spritz great innovation in Italian football tends to come from frustrated bankers It was like that with Maurizio Sarri at the Banca Toscana and so it was with Vio at the Mestre branch of Unicredit The pair bumped into each other while doing a course at Italy’s Ivy League coaching school in Coverciano on the outskirts of Florence a mythical place that also doubles as the national team’s headquarters for his little black book of 33 set-piece routines but Vio who also began coaching at the bottom of the Italian football pyramid The thesis Vio wrote when completing his coaching badges was entitled: “Set pieces: the 15-goal striker.” It drew on his work at amateur level in Serie D and a set of gemelli identical twins who used to play under him at Il Quinto di Treviso a team from a part of Italy more famous for growing radishes than the risk and reward of a smartly-taken corner or free kick In the lexicon of Italian football, gemelli del gol are usually a couple of prolific strikers whose partnership is so close they might as well be related. A good example from back in the day is Ciccio Graziani and Paolo Pulici at Torino or the guys Vio works with now with the national team He had two brothers no one could tell apart and put them in front of the goalkeeper at attacking set pieces Defenders were momentarily at a loss as to which of them was their man and the twins’ job of ignoring the ball and staring at the goalkeeper weirded them out Variations of it were bafflingly effective and the anecdote highlights the extent to which Vio designs specific set plays around personnel and psychology When a Venetian newspaper recently asked him to disclose his secrets “All I’ll say is you need to analyse the players that you have and find solutions tailor-made to their skill set There are players whose reading of the game is special you can bet he’ll find a way to get on the end of it Timing is the most important thing when it comes to finishing off a set piece.” as exemplified by the disorientation a set of identical twins caused a back line cannot be underestimated either and in 2004 Vio partnered with psychologist Alessandro Tettamanzi to co-author a book they titled That Extra 30 Per Cent “that’s how much set pieces can improve a team’s goal tally” a copy of the book ended up on Walter Zenga’s desk as the former Inter Milan goalkeeper is nicknamed was coaching Red Star Belgrade at the time he had always been fascinated by the challenges posed by set pieces particularly how his opposing teams tried to make his life as difficult as possible “A team takes 200 set pieces every season,” Zenga thought “Why would you waste 200 chances to score?” He found Vio’s contact details in the back of the book and sent him an email They began swapping ideas and Zenga was so struck by the value this Unicredit clerk was adding to his team that when he moved on to Al-Ain in the United Arab Emirates he flew Vio out so he could give his players a 20-day clinic on set pieces When Sicilian club Catania offered Zenga the chance to work in Serie A he was asked by the chief executive He’s called Gianni Vio and he’s a set-piece specialist’.” Lo Monaco was left reaching for the old cliche about goalkeepers being mad and the way Zenga tells it: “Only a nutter like me would ask for someone who worked in a bank and coached in non-League to be with me when I got my first job in Serie A Gianni used to fly down on Thursdays and leave on a Sunday “A 20-goals a season player can get injured,” Zenga said He manages to get players scoring who otherwise wouldn’t score.” Catania survived with 17 of their 44 goals (38.6 per cent) coming from set pieces and Vio might as well have been their top scorer Everyone’s favourite eyeliner then lashed the free kick inside the post Set pieces were Catania’s trademark and one of Zenga’s successors there checked Vio in at Fiorentina when he got the job at the Artemio Franchi “I’ve had lots of great specialists down the years,” Vio recently said But he enjoyed the purplest of patches by the Arno Gonzalo Rodriguez and Manuel Pasqual immediately got what we were trying to do.” Rodriguez in particular found his calling The Argentinian centre-back scored six times and played a big role in Fiorentina finishing fourth in 2012-13 with 40.3 per cent of their goals (29 of 72) coming from Vio’s inventions Vio has collaborated with AC Milan and consulted at DC United in MLS as well as Brentford and Leeds United in England he likes to say his job is being a grandfather “I was contacted directly by Mancini,” he said I started working (with the national team) last September.” It is as much a source of pride for Vio as it is for Zenga. “The goal Pessina scored (against Wales, in last weekend’s final Euro 2020 group match),” Zenga explained the attention is drawn to Alessandro Bastoni and Leonardo Bonucci who took up offside positions behind the Welsh wall That’s one of the things Vio wanted goalkeeper Danny Ward to be misdirected by the two centre-halves stepped back onside and the threat came from outside the box instead “He’d always send a man running past the first man on the edge of the wall,” says Zenga with Matteo Pessina catching out Joe Morrell to score the only goal of the game #ITA lead – and that's such a tidy finish from Pessina 👏 — ITV Football (@itvfootball) June 20, 2021 Mancini’s side came close to doubling their lead with another clever free kick Italy obscured Ward’s line of vision with not one wall but two The deeper wall then rejoined the main one and got to work creating the angle for Federico Bernardeschi’s shot One Italy player bent his run to draw his man away from where the versatile Juventus player wanted to shoot The other blocked a Wales defender so Bernardeschi suddenly had clear air between him and the goal just as Giorgio Chiellini was when his goal from a corner against Switzerland in the second group game got chalked off for handball “Gianni’s got so many moves,” former midfielder Davide Baiocco says while reminiscing on their time together at Catania “He likes the element of surprise and has lots of players co-ordinate their movement at the same time then make a counter-movement to come back onside and attack the same space again so I wouldn’t be marked in the seconds before our free-kick taker was preparing to hit the ball where Italy placed two lines of four behind the Bosnia & Herzegovina wall Knowing where they plan to go next is impossible for the Bosnians make a dash for a prospective rebound or run in behind to connect with a dinked ball over the top “Gianni studies his opponents hard,” Baiocco continues “He knows whether a team is better at defending the near post than the far post and who moves first.” could be the difference in Italy winning the Euros next month for the first time since 1968 seven-game tournament and set pieces can help decide it,” Zenga said Sat at his desk in Belgrade all those years ago he could never have predicted the doors a simple email might open Zenga effectively found Italy another striker not another Ciro Immobile or Andrea Belotti But someone who was busy crunching numbers at the Unicredit bank in a suburb of Venice Vio is another reason to bank on the Azzurri this summer (Photo: Ryan Pierse/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) James Horncastle covers Serie A for The Athletic. He joins from ESPN and is working on a book about Roberto Baggio. 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