Page "Vittorio Pozzo" Paragraph 1

Affectionately known as Il Vecchio Maestro ( The Old Master ) and described as both an Anglophile and authoritarian, Pozzo's time as national coach coincided with the period in which Benito Mussolini governed Italy and it has been written that Pozzo was a beneficiary of that era in that he was able to command a type of control over players not permissible in the aftermath of that time.