ROMA – It was 2014, and Cesare Prandelli’s Italy had just been eliminated from the World Cup in Brazil after defeat against Uruguay. Fabio CaressaSky commentator, offered a consideration all-round on the Italian football crisis. Feel it ten years later, it remains very currentThe Roman journalist photographs the moment perfectly, reading the future with absolute lucidity. “It is important to have new ideas that are outside of old and stale politics – stated Fabio Caressa – but is it possible that football has to live in a world that doesn’t exist? We were great producers of footballers. Let’s go and look for them in Pozzuoli, in Southern Italy, in Veneto”.
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“Why are Italian players undervalued compared to foreign players, what is the reason? – Caressa was still asking himself in connection with the Milan studio – don’t we have quality players in Italy anymore? Have we suddenly forgotten how to play football? No. Do they teach football schools how to mark a man like they taught Billy Costacurta? No. Nowadays in football schools they say: you’re big, you play with the good ones, you’re small, you play with the bad ones.: anyone who has children in soccer schools, sees it. And they make these choices to win small championships and make a career as coaches. It’s the system that doesn’t workEither we change it now, or Let’s get ready to live the next ten years as we have lived the last eight”. It seems like a prophecy, it is a very lucid analysis by someone who loves and knows football.
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