The unexpected resignation Roberto Mancini of the Italian football team left the bench less than a year before Euro 2024, this is due to disagreements between the coach and the President of the Italian Federation (FIGC), Gabriele Gravinawho, according to the coach, did not want him to remain in charge of the team.
“When I arrived, I turned down more lucrative opportunities, I made a decision and it was the most important job of my life. I won the European Championship, it won’t be much, but we won it. If Gravina had wanted to, she would have stopped me. He didn’t do it,” Mancini says in an interview with the newspaper. Republic.
“I just needed a sign, he didn’t give it to me. The truth is he didn’t want me to stay, and that’s been the case for months,” adds the former DT, who is very hurt at being “stabbed to death” for his decision.
Mancini, who could soon sign a million-dollar contract to lead Saudi Arabia, is reportedly taking “full responsibility for the decision” according to the country’s press.
I didn’t hide. I spoke to President Gravina and tried to explain my reasons.
In his opinion, Gravina “in those months should have given me peace of mind, he didn’t, and I quit.”
Should I have done this before? May be. But I left the team 25 days before the next game, not three. And I think I’ve always been right, all these years.
“Have you ever seen a federal president change the staff of a selector? Gravina has been wanting to revolutionize it for a year now. I let him know that I can’t, I can put a maximum of a couple of numbers, but I can’t deprive myself of two people from the working group that worked and won the European Championship. In any case, I could replace the employee,” he explains.
The truth is that “for a while he thought the opposite of what I thought, but then why interfere in the affairs of the headquarters? What does it have to do with? At that time he had to send me away,” he says.
Finally, he stated:
Instead, he took the opportunity because some of my employees had expired contracts and he toyed with that. Of course, I could have been tougher, but I thought that he would figure it out on his own.
(According to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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