Di Canio: "Mentality in Italy since the '70s, Lewandowski former from Bar Corallo"

Former striker Paolo Di Canio celebrated the PSG-Bayern Munich match in an interview with La Repubblica. According to the former player and now Sky commentator, history was made in Paris: “I saw and reviewed one of the most beautiful matches ever, players like that in Italy we cannot afford them.”

“After twenty hours, I’m watching it again on the train. The ball-and-foot runs of forty meters, the choices made and then changed at two hundred an hour, the total control: it was pure cinema. What movie does it remind me of? Godzilla versus King Kong. Strong, agile creatures, giving it to each other without calculation, with constant twists and turns,” continued Di Canio, who then lashed out at the criticism that came from Italy.

“Defenders under indictment? But what were they supposed to do? It’s 1970s reasoning. We Italians think we are the wizards of defense, then Bayern scores 10 goals in two games against Atalanta, Psg scores five against Inter. We are just envious. From us there are those who get excited about Lukaku and Leao, with all due respect.”

Di Canio then commented ironically on rumors of a possible arrival of Robert Lewandowski to Juventus or Milan: “We are waiting for Lewandowski, at 38 years old. It reminds me of when Serie C players, after retirement, used to come and play at Bar Corallo, in Quarticciolo, my neighborhood in Rome. We’d see them and say, “Damn that’s cool, oh!” But that’s the beginning of the end. In the 1990s the Ballon d’Or were won playing in Serie A. We slipped out of great soccer.”