Roberto Mancini, bitter confession about the national team

Roberto Mancini, bitter confession about the national team

Roberto Mancini gave a lengthy interview to 'Il Giornale' on the occasion of his 60th birthday, in which he indulged in a bitter confession about the National Team: "Leaving the National Team "was a wrong choice, which I would not make again. That strong relationship of trust I had with the Federation had mutually broken down. If I could go back I would approach everything differently. If Gravina and I had talked to each other, explained, clarified, things probably would not have turned out that way.

"To coach feeling that the confidence on your person wavers, believe me, is not a good feeling – added the former coach -. It does not guarantee you can work with the right serenity. Despite this, I reproach myself for not having approached it with more clarity. Between me and Gravina there's always been a relationship based on great esteem and dialogue. And the time that perhaps it was necessary to speak clearly, it è was not done".

Shortly after resigning as coach of the Azzurri, Mancini accepted a proposal from Saudi Arabia: "I do not deny that, for a coach, the proposal of such a high amount of money puts you in crisis. Però it was not è decisive. It affected, but it wasnè t just because of that that I left the bench of the national team".

Recently, the coach from Jesolo è has been approached to the Roma bench: "I have never been contacted, no call from the management. If there had been the conditions of a nice project to carry on together, I would have said yes". 

"I want to raise the World Cup, I still have an unfinished business. When I became ct of the national team, I declared my two goals: to win a European Championship and a World Cup" Mancini commented on his future.