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Tanel · 30-04-07, 04:13 PM

Tursk With Fans (Part 1)

Turin, 29th of May 2007 - Gazzetta gives you the full lenght two hour online interview where Torino's manager Tanel Tursk answered to different questions from fans. This is part one of the interview.

"After such a succesful season, aren't you interested in coaching much more important team? Such as Juventus or Real Madrid?"

"I never thought of going this season. I've stated that my goal is to make Torino a succesful team, we took our first step. towards it with this season. And to be honoust, it's not so appealing for me to be in the tight fight fom promotion to Serie A where Juventus currently is in Serie B."

"Was it Elvis Abbruscato whom we saw yesterday to go out with your girlfriend?"

"I've got no information about that. You have to ask Elvis. He is a great dude and I've got a great girlfriend, they'd make a lovely couple."

"How is your relationship with people from Juventus (players, staff, board, etc)?"

"My raport with them is unexistant unfortunately. I exchanged words with few Juventus players after our cup games. I like Boumsong a lot, he screws things up around there. I've tried to contact him, but I cannot recieve him. They are using some kind of private SIM card there in Juventus, referees have one too."

"After [Marco] Di Loreto, [Stefano] Fiore, [Gianluca] Comotto etc, are you planning to sign more ex-Firoentina players?"

"It all depends. There are many ex-Fiorentina players or those who are in Fiorentina that I'd love to see in my team. They are a great team, so great players have gone through them."

"Do you like Italian beer?"

"It's a really pathetic attempt of beer they make around here. In Italy there isn't the right climate to make beer, Italy is wine country. I hate wine though."

"How far do you expect your team to get in the Champions League?"

"I obviously want to advance from the groups. Champions League is a tournament I know very well, you need to time everything for the knockout stages, the form etc. You cannot make a single mistake as it costs you a fortune. I'd say my sight is on the quarter final, but it all depends on the opponents. If we'd get Barcelona in the first knockout stage, I'd be happy just to have a chance to play them."

"We may be black sheep"

"Is your team ready to challenge Inter for Lo Scudetto?"

"No, it isn't. Next season we'll try get another similiar position like this one, then we can go for Scudetto. We've got one team that is great, Inter and for example Juventus, Fiorentina, Roma and Milan have got induvidually better options than we have. But we benefited on the team spirit this season, if the mentality is right and the big ones are having a bad season, we may be black sheep.

"Are you going to bring in some stars, or you prefer to invest in promising youth?"

"We don't have the money to bring in big stars, though one or two bigger names that can make a big difference for club like ours will definately be on my plans for the next transfer season. We obviously need to look for the youth aswell, I'm doing that and the scouts are too. We've already got young players like Rosina, Zuba, Schiavi who have got great potential."

"Do you think it'll be hard to keep your star players? Above all Elvis [Abbruscato]."

"I've gotten a promise from the guys that they'll stay atleast for next season. Elvis is a hot name in the world of football after this season, no doubt. But I have a great raport with him and so do the fans, we even resigned his contract bit earlier until 2012! He is still in his mid-20's so it isn't such desperate move to secure him."

"Can Elvis [Abbruscato] repeat his fantastic season?"

"He can and he will. He took the feet from the gas at the end of the season while the youngsters were playing, but he'll get even better over the summer."

"What will you do with the ageing players?"

"It's a situation we're always closely following. It's a bad term to call someone ageing, different players reach their peak and start going down at different times. We're bringing some fresh young blood to the team already, though until the older ones continue to play good, the only thing I'll do with them is putting them into the starting line-up.

"Is it true that [Francesco] Totti is a queen?"

"Totti isn't a queen. I disagree with that opinion. He has got too much temper for a queen, I'd say he is a young princess."

"Which areas of your team are you going to strenghten?"

"All, hopefully."

"When did you started to feel that this season could be so succesful?"

"Somewhere in mid-december. We were playing great from the start, but couldn't find consistency. Then we got things right and the results started coming. Since then it was 'never look back' for us."

"Did you expected Elvis [Abbruscato] to became so huge?"

"No. He was good in the pre-season training and that Coppa Italia hattrick was a hint for us, but his start to the Serie A season was slow and I was becoming worried about our strikers, until Elvis changed the gear."

"Is it true you have good relationship to [Luciano]Moggi?"

"It is true. His son is, or actually was, my agent until recently. He is a close family friend of ours. He used to come into our house to fix our phone-lines. My dad was a referee."

"How many of Toro player will make it to Euro 2008?"

"I hope to see many of them. I think [Elvis] Abbruscato will be there with Italy for sure, and [Simone] Barone is a certain international aswell. I'll get some new players aswell, they may happen to be in a national team which gets to the Euro's aswell. I'd say there'll be around 6-7 Torino players in Austria-Switzerland."

"Is it true that your players are training diving?"

"We have to go with the modern flow of football. Once a week we have a thirty minute diving practice, yes. We are trained by a 3-time diving Olympic gold medalist Klaus Dibiasi. We practice different technics, I think now you can't even understand that we dive."

"Is [Giuseppe] Pancaro bald?"

"He does have few hairs in front, so not. Though I don't know are they real."

"Are you going to do formation/tactics changes going into next season?"

"I don't think so. Maybe we'll try out some defensive changes in the pre-season, but time will tell."

"She is great in bikini!

"Do you consider [Giuseppe] Pancaro's fiancee [Vincenza Cacace] beautiful?"

"She is great in bikini! I swaped with [Giuseppe] Pancaro in our "Torino players swap their bed partners" night."

"Did [Giuseppe] Pancaro ever told you how he managed to get her?"

"They met in the cosmetic section of a shop in Rome. She was looking for nail polisher, Giuseppe wanted something to polish his head with."

"Do you like Juventus?"

"I like Juventus, they are my favourite team in Serie B. There are few problems with their team, though you'll see more when I finish my 1000-page book about Juventus faults."

"Would you ever accept their job offer?"

"Unfortunately, I have a clause in my contract that says that in case I ever go to Juventus, I must give Urbano Cairo a blow-job and I cannot do that."

"Would you rather sign [Alessandro] Del Piero or [Francesco] Totti?"

"I'd take Totti hands down, don't like either of them that much though."

"Is [Raffaele] Schiavi the next [Alessandro] Nesta?"

"He could be, I have faith in him. He needs to give 100% of himself and he may become a worldwide known defender like Nesta without a doubt. Though he reminds me more of [Fabio] Cannavaro or Marco Materazzi."

"Do you think you'll be Toro's 'Ferguson'?"

"Hopefully yes, I already had a long career with U Cluj in Romania. I don't mind another such era of greatness."

Part 2 coming up later tonight