Italy flop, Antonio Cassano: "Azzurri all poor, if this technician arrives it sucks"

Former national team striker Antonio Cassano in Viva El Fútbol harshly criticized the Azzurri after the bitter defeat against Bosnia and the third consecutive exclusion from the rainbow review. “When we drew Bosnia everyone was happy, me for one, who said I hoped not to go and catch Wales, who have a tremendous pace. Bosnia was going slowly, however, there was a problem: they had the ball, they had courage. In the back played the guy from Sassuolo, in the front played Dzeko in his 40s, and then the rest of the players, who knows them in Italy? No one.”

“In Italy these pseudo-great players, who earn a lot of money, are too easily passed off as phenomena. They judge mediocre or poor players with adjectives that are too big: they are poor. And they should not be ashamed of their elimination against Bosnia, because more they could not do. They are scarce. Of Italians who solve problems even in the national and international field with clubs there are very few, if any,” Fantantonio said.

“Do we understand that Italian players are scanty? They have no personality, they have no quality, they have nothing! Then they go and say attachment, this in soccer does not exist. If one has no quality … Only Donnarumma has kept us alive, the only champion we have. He made two beautiful potatoes. They shot 30 times on goal 30 times! Do we understand or not that Italian soccer is poor and Italian players are poor, goalkeeper excluded? People were not even inca…ta, they were disappointed.”

The Allegri ct hypothesis infuriates Cassano: “Enough still going after some failed coach who says: let’s play all behind, 1-0, the forts, the defenses. No more playing with five, the muzzle in front, the muzzle in back. Because Italy cannot be reduced to this crap! What Allegri says is crap. And they even want him as national team coach. Him and Mourinho, I hear. A disgrace, a disgust, people sucking up for two more passes, two more tickets, two more jerseys . They should be ashamed of themselves. People must be pissed off at them too.”