During his leading article for today’s edition of Tuttosport, Xavier Jacobelli commented on the end of the relationship between the Arab Football Federation and Roberto Mancini: “An ancient Arab proverb warns: ‘All the camels in the desert are not enough to buy you a friend’. Roberto Mancini could paraphrase: all the camels in the desert are not enough to buy you a Competitive national team. Above all, if twenty players you call up to Saudi Arabia are regularly on the bench in the Saudi Arabian championship, since each team of the same can field ten at a time (…).
One thing was the bitter disappointment that Mancini caused to millions of Italy fans when he left at the turn of August, fifteen months after the Macedonian shock and in full pursuit of qualification for the European Championship; a decision which for the fans themselves sounded like a betrayal, despite the reasons given by the interested party.
Everyone is the creator of their own destiny and has the right to build it, aware that in the country of 60 million ct many would like to be in your place and, also for this reason, they judge you according to what you do, on the bench and when you don’t sit on the bench. bench. Another matter is to ignore the reasons for the flop: first of all, they have their roots in the bulimia of foreigners that afflicts the very rich Saudi league, to the detriment of the Saudi national team.”