Chiellini Plots Managerial Career After Retirement
Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini has revealed he wants to try his hands in management when he retires from football.
At 37 years, Chiellini is in the twilight of his career but he still has one year left on his Juventus contract.
There have been reports that he will like to wind down the rest of his career in America's Major League Soccer next season.
Chiellini has already announced that he will retire from Italy duty next month but his club career remains undecided.
The former Fiorentina man however knows what he wants to do when the time comes for him to hang up his boots, with a place in the dugouts his preferred choice.
He told La Stampa: "As long as you are a footballer, you are focused only on that. And until today in my head I have always been a 100 per cent footballer, when you do this job it can only be like that.
"Certainly in the future I would like to have a managerial path, in which to enhance the wealth of experience I have gained over the years and make it available in a new context."
He added: “I would like to take care of what surrounds the pitch, but it goes beyond that, but first I would have a lot to study. I know the sport well, but it is not enough to do well as a manager.
"About Continassa [the Juventus training complex] I know everything, even where there are cobwebs, but what happens in the office I have a superficial idea.
"The experience I'm having with Sport Horizon helps me, but you can't improvise it."
Chiellini has made 23 appearances in all competitions for Juventus this season.
With 116 caps for Italy, only Gianluigi Buffon, Daniel De Rossi, Fabio Cannavaro and Paulo Maldini have made more appearances for the four-time world champions than Chiellini.
