“Players were bombarded with a lot of information and didn’t understand what to do,” says Fabio Caressa
Speaking on his YouTube channel, Fabio Caressa commented on Italy’s debacle at the European Championships as follows:
“It was a humiliating match for our football, I don’t want to hear about excuses that there are no players and young people. We weren’t the oldest, do you want to tell me that Switzerland can fish from a wider pool of players than the Italians? No. This excuse doesn’t exist either. There’s been talk of new things for years and I don’t see them. I didn’t like certain things: it’s not that talking about resignations is blasphemy. It’s not running away. You can give them or be convinced that you can still do a good job, they’re not obligatory but you shouldn’t put resignations and running away together. Some have resigned in the past because they weren’t able to do the things they wanted to do”
“The problem of foreigners has been there since the Bosman Law, it is useless to continue to bring up this story. But with a careful view of the company accounts, some things can be avoided. I hope that with the new rules this problem will be mitigated, the problem of the market is that too much money leaves the circuit and it is an international problem. But the problem of foreigners exists in all nations, it is an open market and you cannot think of closing it to foreigners. Italy is not old but it is not so poor either. There is a problem in football schools, not everyone can afford it and then maybe a certain economic strength can help young people to make a career, it is unacceptable that there is a social criterion on this selection. We must do concrete things, as a system. When we lose, we all lose. Football schools produce footballers and not tacticians. We need to open a large parenthesis on philosophers, this philosophy of football that is a chess game has only brought damage also because small coaches want to be big coaches, they only talk about tactics and in football schools they no longer do technique and so we no longer have players. When we lose to Spain it’s because we never get Yamal and Nico Williams, in Spain they take care of the technique in the youth teams. We need scholarships, financial support, free federal courses”
“Is Spalletti fit to be the CT? Of course, he’s intelligent. But only if he adapts and he didn’t. That night of reflection he thought about whether to stay or not, he was struck by the fact that he wasn’t able to give his all. You have to work in a short time, there’s no time in the national team. You have to adapt to the new role, you work quickly and on other principles. You have to philosophize less and be more practical. You have to change your preparation, the athletic one didn’t work because it was badly calibrated also because it’s not a staff that has that experience. I hope he learns from his mistakes, a different working approach is needed. There were 10 defenders because we played with 3 and we didn’t play with 3. The players were bombarded with a lot of information and didn’t understand what to do. Then there was too much spectacularization, the 10 at Coverciano didn’t play. Then there was too much confusion in determining the values: but like Play no and then, I love Fagioli, but call up Fagioli who returned 10 days after the disqualification for betting? There is some friction, is someone who played 10 minutes useful to the national team? No and it was evident. Fagioli is a very good player but he is not a phenomenon, just say phenomenon after 10 games”
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