‘Don’t put me in a box’: Pellegrino Matarazzo’s extraordinary journey from New Jersey to Real Sociedad

Real Sociedad’s coach’s career reveals plenty about the man leading the proud Basque club to only their fourth Copa del Rey finalThere is a moment, about halfway through a long conversation about an extraordinary journey from New Jersey to Seville, when Pellegrino Matarazzo stops mid-sentence. “I keep using that word: ‘special’. I’m realising now that my English is terrible,” Real Sociedad’s coach says.So much so that when it finally comes to an end, after he has moved from management and mathem...