Ventura on Italy outside the World Cup: “Mancini supported, I abandoned and the only culprit. I didn’t find it right”

Italy-North Macedonia like Italy-Sweden?

“In some ways, yes, but the context was completely different. Before the playoffs my national team was already contested. Yet I dated Sweden and Spain, but I don’t like making comparisons“.

On the moment of Italian football

“It stopped a bit on the level of ideas, it’s less fun. There was Gasperini’s exploit with Atalanta, then a few years ago Sarri’s Napoli. For the rest it does not seem to me that it is an exciting moment. We have difficulty in scoring and the strikers are criticized, but there is no Italian striker among the top 6 Serie A teams. We played for the qualification for the World Cup with naturalized players, a sign that something is wrong, it is evident. But we discuss it only after a failure, in a week we will be focused again on Juventus-Inter. Concrete reforms are needed, it is not enough to speakarne”.

“I don’t want to train anymore, but …”

“I don’t want to train anymore, but the ball is my life. I would be happy to bring my experience to some company. It was right that I devote some time to my family and I did. If an opportunity were to arise, I would be ready, competitive and determined. I’m not looking for a contract, I don’t care, I need adrenaline, I think I can still be useful“.