The coach, fresh from salvation with the Sardinians, spoke at the Serie A Festival in Parma. No doubts about the national team: “Complicated group, but I trust Spalletti.” And on the last season: “Many memorable matches, but the ones that didn’t let me sleep at night were those of Cagliari. I wouldn’t change them for anything”
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Also Claudio Ranieri among the guests of the Serie A Festival in Parma. The coach, who said goodbye to the clubs but left the door open to a possible national team, commented on the commitment that awaits the Azzurri at Euro24, inserted in the group with Albania, Croatia and Spain: “Hard group, it won’t be easy but I have a lot of confidence in Spalletti. We must let him work calmly, the press above all must not ask for the impossible. You can’t make ends meet straight away, he’s putting seed in the players’ soil and I hope he can do well. Maybe not in this European Championship, but looking to the future he will be right”.
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A very long career, which began in 1986 at the helm of Vigor Lamezia and ended (at least for now) with the salvation of Cagliari: “If I had had some good agent, a relative who would give me a hand, I would also have been able to do something more. I have always adapted to different realities, the coach who has no possibility of choosing must do so with everything. In some teams I couldn’t choose, that was there and you had to work with that, making the most of it. First of all I had fun, a lot: for example I didn’t know Spanish, English, French, I had to learn them”. In 2016 the success in the Premier League with Leicester: “I arrived there with a team that had survived in the last month. I studied the whole squad, I really wanted to return to England, and I changed several things, for example the formation, from 3-5-2 to 4-4-2. Along the way I managed to insert players who had joined Kanté is also in form. Bocelli called me before Easter, told me that we were doing something exceptional and that he wanted to come and sing with us. At Leicester we won against super powers, but Cagliari remains in my heart and I won’t exchange that feat for anything”.
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“Magnificent players in Cagliari. I didn’t fake my resignation”
The one that has just ended was a season with ups and downs: “I had some magnificent players, I never had to scold them in training because they were going at three thousand an hour. But they didn’t perform in the game, perhaps they were convinced that just because I was on the bench they would have been saved. After the defeat against Lazio I told my collaborators that I was leaving. I spoke to the players, I told them they would need electric shock. Two, three and others stood up and told me to stay. It wasn’t a preordained move, I don’t know how to pretend”.
