Italy coach Roberto Mancini sent out a message following the 5-2 defeat to Germany, warning ‘this process will see some good things and others not so good.’
The CT is under fire after the humiliating Nations League result in Monchengladbach last night, which saw the Azzurri drop down from first place to third in the group.
They had until now impressed in the competition using very experimental and constantly-changing sides to beat Hungary 2-1 and draw with both Germany and England.
“What we started a few weeks ago is a new process that will see some good things and others not so good,” warned Mancini in a social media post.
“We need to still grow in terms of confidence, but we’ll do it all together as a real squad. Forza Azzurri.”
The Nazionale are relaunching after the EURO 2020 triumph and then failure to qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Numerous young players have been given their international debuts over the last four games, including some like Willy Gnonto and Federico Gatti who have never even played in Serie A.
The Nations League group phase will conclude in September with Italy-England and Hungary-Italy, at which stage Mancini hinted he will start to bring back some of the first choice players.
Quello iniziato qualche settimana fa è un nuovo percorso che prevede cose fatto molto bene e altre meno.
Bisogna ancora crescere nella consapevolezza, ma lo faremo tutti insieme da vero gruppo.
FORZA AZZURRI 🇮🇹 pic.twitter.com/4rQi9ri27J— Roberto Mancini (@robymancio) June 15, 2022
My Manager! Forza Mancio!
The Lega Calcio and these Owners and Team Presidents have betrayed you. Down to 33% Italians is simply not sustainable. You can catch lightning in a bottle like the 2019-2021 but its not something to rely on.
Until Italian players stop being a novelty in their own league, this is the reality. Sorry for repeating myself.
And Part 3 because FI site ìs bad at allowing messages through that I have to break it up…
My only complaint was not cracking heads sooner. In retrospect, the old guard needed to feel the urgency. I only blame Mancio for babying them along and maintaining calm.
Part 4…. cause FI is gonna FI. Never change, bro.
Maybe they needed to play with
Part 5…
One pointy
Part 6.
dress
Part 7
shoe up their shorts.
Sooner or later I’ll know the censored word…
nice play Brandon.
can you puzzle me this?:
not sure i hear brasil or argentina supporters complaining about their domestic leagues [even though i know they are made of citizens of the respective nations in the main]. that said, when you look at players making up their national teams they are all european based. hopefully i spelled out my meaning without the need to go on otherwise i too will suffer the FI syndrome
Seria B has 67% Italian talent playing at club level. Perhaps the FiGV needs to look at them even more closely.
@ Brandon … you are correct. Seria A club management and ownership have betrayed the Nazionale prospects. Disgraceful!
Agree here. Mancini did so well to win Euros. He deserves another shot until the next World Cup.
RG,
If I understand you correctly, I don’t think South Americans mind it at all when it comes to their National Teams that they are all or mostly all European-based. I know when Carlos Tevez was playing in Europe he was still admired more by Boca Junior fans because he used to play for them and was still considered one of them. I know this for a fact that in World Cup 2006, Messi (who had already been in Spain for about a decade moving there early teens had a mere fraction of supporters from Argentina than Tevez.
I know a Brazilian who looks at his National Team and if he doesn’t recognize a European-based player will find out who he used to play for back in Brazil before he made the jump. This guy doesn’t watch the European leagues just the Paulista.
Also,
I guess some supporters may not like the fact that their clubs sell their best players for money. They likely know they have to survive and have gotten used to it.
Trust Mancini. He started this same process choosing players from lesser clubs and serie b teams. He gave these players awareness, which no doubt the big clubs will come in and buy A few from this current pool of Italian players.
As a Milan fan, why aren’t Milan going in for Cancelleri or Gnonto? Too young? Give them a chance, they have to be better than Daniel Maldini.
They are. And the ex-Captain Azzurro knows it but nepotism.
Everyone has an opinion about Balotelli!!
Right!!. I’m sorry but Italy will never see a centre forward with that amount of talent.
An absolute X factor for the game.
I’m sure Italians will except anyone who can score outside the box.
@Anthony if he has so much talent why has he never had a 20 goal League season, even though he’s played for several huge clubs AND was the penalty taker at basically every club he’s ever played for?