ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “It is not all the fault of the ct, it is evident. It has its responsibilities, but it is not a problem of federal president or coach, but of culture and system. We always do nothing. After 2006, we went out in 2010 and 2014. Then we didn’t qualify for three World Championships in a row. The last European was very bad. There was only the parentheses of the European won, the classic exception confirming the rule.” Giampiero Ventura, host of “Radio Anch’io Sport”, acquitted Gattuso after Italy for the third time in a row failed to qualify for the World Championship.
“Every time we find ourselves talking, explaining. The criticalities are structural, the government must intervene, not only the federal one. Everyone has their own recipe. An account is to say and an account is then to do so. From Italy-Sweden of 2017 nothing has changed,” Ventura insists, on the bench of the National precisely in the shooting that denied the blue pass for Russia in 2018. “We were eliminated from Sweden, then fifth to the World Championship – remember – The attack was personal, we had to find a scapegoat. But it’s part of the past. Of course, he has engraved on my choice of detachment. It was violence in some cases also free.”.
If I’d get a hot potato like the National one? “Absolutely not. I wouldn’t have taken it even when I took it. After a very short time, I realized that I had made the wrong choice and it was a time when I could make different choices, even very interesting. But it’s useless to cry. There were no assumptions then, there are no today. Whoever sits on the blue bench will encounter objective difficulties.”.
Ventura understands what Gattuso is going through, “I’ve been there too, you feel responsible for not achieving the goal. The important thing is that, in his heart, he knows he has done the most. I advise him to repay the work he has always done. With the conviction that this with the National was a bad road accident, but that can happen in the world of football. Next ct? I think it’s the last of the problems. Whatever the ct, if it is not put in the conditions of working at best, will always work in this context of difficulty. In 2006 we won because we had a generation of phenomena. Today this generation is not there. We must first create the assumptions that a ct can radically affect.”.
In this regard Ventura reveals that, like Baggio, he had presented a report to relaunch Italian football. “I thought there was a need for different behaviour. The buildings are built from the foundations, not from the attic. Once, young people played 4-5 hours a day, every day. They played in the street or in the speakers. If these spaces are no longer there because society has changed, we must create new ones. In the centers they must be trained and paid trainers-educators, who do not have the goal of winning the tournament, but to create and grow. After creating and growing, there must be no dispersion: the transition from spring to the first team is too big in Italy”. Ventura cita Vergara, that “it has always been in Naples, but it would not have played even a minute and there had not been all the injuries that Naples had this year. The same Pisilli has long been known, could have much more minutes on the shoulders and legs.” But not only:
“Once we lived only and exclusively of technique. Today often in the youth sectors the ambition of the coach is not to grow a talent, but to achieve a goal in order to get out of the youth sector and to make way in an individual way. It is necessary to change attitude, the way to propose and propose”.
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