Giampiero Ventura has “a fierce desire” to get back into football, but admits “my Italy adventure was over a minute after losing in Spain”.
The former CT suffered the ignominy of being the first man to fail to take Italy to a World Cup since 1958, and he has broken his silence after being given an award by the city of Sarezzano.
“I’ve just returned from something that was bigger than me,” Ventura explained.
Giampiero Ventura has “a fierce desire” to get back into football, but admits “my Italy adventure was over a minute after losing in Spain”.
The former CT suffered the ignominy of being the first man to fail to take Italy to a World Cup since 1958, and he has broken his silence after being given an award by the city of Sarezzano.
“I’ve just returned from something that was bigger than me,” Ventura explained.
“Then I paid in a rather violent way for this last exclusion [from the World Cup]. In football there is never a single person who wins, but nor is there a single person who loses.
“There are always so many truths, and when they come out everything will be much clearer.
“I have a fierce desire to start again for a simple reason: I need to give answers now and I want to give them, because 35 years can’t be cancelled out by two months.
“My adventure was over a minute after losing in Spain. I want to recover my 35 years, because I earned them on the pitch and the only way to do that is not with polemic or statements.
“The only way to do it is through football and results, and what I have the presumption of being able to do.”