Coach Mancini on Tg1: "What would Vialli say? I think he’s very happy.”

“Italy will have to be a national team that will play well. They will play in attack, they will be offensive, like we did a few years ago. I think the boys are there, we just need to find a bit of calm because it hasn’t been easy.” Words from the new Italian coach Roberto Mancini, on TG1, after the official presentation to the press at the FIGC.

Not before having apologized for his farewell three years ago: “It was a mistake, because for me the national team has always been the best. It’s like when you lose the love of your life in life, it means that you did something wrong. No matter how good you were before, you lost something important and therefore you have to do everything you can to recover. If I had spoken more with president Gravina, this probably wouldn’t have happened and everything would have gone on normally.”

In the new work team, apart from president Malagò, there will also be Claudio Ranieri. “It will be a perfect collaboration, we will definitely get along because our goal is to win, to do well. Young people? This idea has never been lacking, so much so that we have had around 50 young players make their debut, so this won’t be a problem.” Finally, a thought for Gianluca Vialli: “If he had been there perhaps nothing would have happened, we would have moved forward and perhaps we would have won something else, but at the moment I think he is very happy too”.