“I said it in 2014.” On Spalletti and the World Cup…

“Is the national team considered a burden? Forever. When I became coach, the League had organized the Super Cup in Japan when there was a friendly match for the national team. Already 15 years ago there were no healthy relationships. The first thing is to get the FIGC and the League to agree. Enough talking, enough digging things up, we need to understand how to make this movement grow. When the national team is there everyone becomes a fan, before no one gives a damn. And 50 million people become coaches. Why are we unable to get involved before these events to arrive prepared“. Thus the former coach Cesar Prandelliguest of ‘Radio anch’io Sport’ on Rai Radiouno on the crisis of Italian football and the failure of the national team at the European Championship.

Italy and the next World Cup

“Failure to qualify for the next World Cup? There is a risk. When we were eliminated in 2014, in a press conference I said: ‘but are we sure that in the next few years we will go there?’ We already had data that showed a very negative trend in perspective: a great deal of competence and great resources up to 19-20 years of age, we are competitive at a world level but then we have an incredible gap, for years. We are unable to propose players to the first team, to make them grow, to give them a strong moral strength and therefore we lose them. Perhaps the Federation must do something more, it must try to make the boys grow at home. Some journalists called me after a few years and said: ‘at the time we made fun of you but we should apologize’. But it’s not that I’m a fortune teller. Our crisis starts when we are young, we continue to be in crisis and this is the time to act, to put forward proposals, to create a pool of people who want to give something to football. Contracts are not needed, what is needed is the will to do something“, added the former coach ofItalia.

Shoulder pads:

Subscribe to Tuttosport