Walter Sabatini And Zdenek Zeman: two personalities from Italian football who don’t get along particularly well. The manager, interviewed by the Corriere della Sera: “I send him a hug, but there isn’t much to clarify. It was a disappointment to realize that I was right: his famous silences are due to the fact that he doesn’t have much to say. As a coach, however, I have seen him do things of the highest level.”
Throughout his life, Sabatini has seen death up close: “True, in 2018. But the twenty-day pharmacological coma torments me. Retirement? Never, I have to die first and that won’t happen either. Football has devastated me, but I still have to take and give something.”
The chat moves on to the great managers of Italian football. Among whom Sabatini does not mention Giuseppe Marotta: “I have felt affection for him, since our common days in Varese. But I’m not his admirer: I’m a provocateur, he always fixes everything. I resigned about twenty times, he would never have done it.”