Maurizio Crosetti: "Adani? I would draw a pious veil"

At the microphones of CRC, radio partner of SSC Napoli, during the “Calciomania” program, Repubblica correspondent Maurizio Crosetti spoke. “Italy has not reached the knockout stage of a World Cup since 2006. Yesterday’s defeat, however, is not like that of 2010, where we also rightly sinned by excessive gratitude to the senators who had taken us to the roof of the world. To go to the World Cup, it is not enough to have good moments now and then, you have to be much stronger than that. Should they have deployed the “coach” in front of the goal? We did, but it had broken windows and punctured tires. The coach is not enough to park it, you need to know how to drive it.”

“There was a moment of exaggerated exaltation by the commentators after the goal, especially by Adani on whom I would draw a veil. However, our goal came from a duck by the opposing goalkeeper. Bastoni’s out-of-time intervention brought the team to its knees, making us play for more than 80 minutes in 10. But we should not reduce everything to the occasionality: the referee made a mistake, but we did not stay at home either through his fault or Bastoni’s fault.”

“We have technical, temperament, structural and, above all, systemic limitations, which in other sports are not there. Among other things, an exit by Gravina in which he called other sports amateur sports, where, according to him, it would be easier to plan and win than soccer, bothered some people a lot.”

“In these hours the name of Giovanni Malagò is the one most talked about to go and replace Gravina, but in my opinion it would be a mistake to think that choosing the right personality will be able to save the system. The problem is not the president of the League, but the League itself, everything has to be re-founded.”