LORENZO Dolcetti is not your average EFL coach – far from it.

Colchester United’s latest coaching addition is the son of Juventus’s assistant manager, played in Italian football’s third tier and can speak five different languages.

Dolcetti is also combining the demanding roles of first-team coaching and analysis in a professional football environment, which is no mean feat in itself.

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“He’s an incredible boy,” said Colchester head coach Danny Cowley, who brought the Italian to the U’s last month having previously worked with him at League One club Portsmouth.

“He comes from a football family – his Dad is the assistant manager to Allegri at Juventus.

“He played in Italy to a good level and speaks five languages.

“He’ll be speaking in English to us, then someone will phone and he’ll be talking in Italian and then the next thing, he’s watching something in German and picking out all of the coaching points from a German coaching session!”

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Dolcetti has an impressive football background, growing up in Italy in professional academies such as AC Milan and Pisa.

His father Aldo is assistant to Massimiliano Allegri at Italian giants Juventus and played as a central midfielder for the likes of Pisa and Cesena in Serie A, during a successful playing career.

Having played at a good level himself, Dolcetti has since gained coaching experience in Italy and Australia, with his main expertise coming in training methodology, video analysis and individual development.

Dolcetti first arrived in England in 2016 to study at the University of Chichester and has gone onto gain a BSc in Football Coaching and Performance and an MSc in Sports Performance Analysis, along with a UEFA A and B qualifications.

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He has worked in the Premier League as Southampton’s first-team analyst and was also First Team Development Coach at Portsmouth for more than 18 months, before linking up with the Cowley brothers again at Colchester.

“For us, he coaches on the pitch and off the pitch,” said Cowley.

“Always with my analysts, I like them to be able to coach off the field.

“I think that’s really important, because you play a 46-game season, the games come thick and fast and you can’t always coach the players on the pitch, so we need to be able to cope well off the pitch with video analysis meetings, when we do individual work with those players but also, if those coaches can then coach on the pitch, we know that players learn by feel, by doing – that’s their best learning style.

“So, if they can coach on the pitch well, then this is such an asset to us.

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“I like my staff to be lean and mean; I don’t like to have a big group of staff and departments – I don’t think you can afford to, when you’re in the lower leagues.

“You need people to be a jack of all trades, I suppose and he sees the game really quickly.

“He coaches as well on the pitch as he does off the pitch.

“He’s a really good player as well – I always say to him ‘coach analyst/player’, because he wouldn’t be far off playing at this level.”