As usual, it was Jorge Valdano who put it best. “Under Santi Solari’s impeccable suit,” he wrote, “there’s a ball that’s covered in mud.”
Solari reads Nietzsche but it is football he knows best. He has no experience some might say, but he has spent a lifetime in the game, inheriting ideas and learning from his family.
Solari’s father, Eduardo, was a player and so was his uncle Jorge. His brothers Esteban and David play, as does his nephew Augusto.
When Jorge and Eduardo retired in the mid-1970s they founded Renato Cesarini, a club and football school in Rosario that counts internationals Javier Mascherano and Martin Demichelis among its graduates. Between them, Jorge and Eduardo also coached teams in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, USA, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia and Spain.
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