Roberto Mancini is concerned about the situation of Italian soccer

Roberto Mancini took stock of the state of Italian soccer on Radio Laziale: “You have to see what years we compare it with, it is clear that it is no longer what it was until the 2000s. Those years there, from the 80s on, great champions came. If you compare with those years there, no. That is what Italian soccer is, always been important and difficult”.

“Why has there been this decline? Because other leagues, like the English one, take so much money from TV rights and can invest more. Stadiums are always full and new. This thing about stadiums does us no credit. Everyone in Europe has state-of-the-art stadiums and we don’t, it’s a shame. If they were better, they would be filled in all cities”.

Closing on Ciro Immobile, with denial about an alleged quarrel: “Never bickered, never left out. He always played with me, maybe not all the time but most of the times he did also because we had him and Belotti”.

“He was also one who scored the most goals. It is not easy to make them in the national team, the level is always higher because you meet teams with strong players”, concluded the’former ct.