de laurentiis: “too many 20 teams”
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Asked about Italy’s failure to qualify for the World Cup, Aurelio De Laurentiis identified the recipe for restarting: “My feeling has been clear for ten years. It just makes me smile, we in Naples have a beautiful expression that my father always used: ‘A folliella mmano ‘e criature’… That is, the toy is in the hands of the children. Finding scapegoats is of no use. In Italian football everything has been dormant for years, nothing moves because by moving nothing everyone gets by. The moment is not tragic, provided that everyone becomes aware of it and starts from scratch. 16 teams, fewer games, more time to train the national team, paying the players who go to the national team to the clubs that loan them, total insurance in case of injury: this in my opinion is the necessary restart.” A passage also on Malagò and the possible revolution of the FIGC: “Someone like Malagò, a great professional, is someone who can give rather than take, also being endowed with a certain humility. Unfortunately in the world around us many want to be there to take. If from tomorrow morning we started again with Malagò, in my opinion we would be strong again within two years.”
