Spending two years at Celtic and retiring after spells at Hamilton Academical and St. Mirren, Massimo Donati loved Scotland so much that he stayed.
Now a technical coach at Kilmarnock where he works with Alex Dyer, the 38-year-old Italian is preparing their club’s clash against Neil Lennon’s side at the weekend.
Amid the work he has to do, Donati found some time to have a chat with Mediagol in Italy about how things are going in the north of Great Britain, where he is ‘pursuing’ their dream of becoming a manager.
Still, he has to work his way up before as nothing tends to be handed to anyone, and that start with Saturday’s clash against Celtic.
He said: “It will be a game of suffering because Celtic have players on another level and therefore it’ll be a complicated game where we’ll have to chase our opponents so much. Their individual and collective quality is very high”.
Donati added that Kilmarnock’s current goal is to ‘reach the top six’, and with the side currently in seventh, four points behind Hibernian, that’s entirely feasible.
There will be hope the club can take advantage of Celtic’s midweek travelling as they went to Denmark to draw 1-1 against FC Kobenhaven in the Europa League on Thursday.
