Italy, Zeman tackles Mancini: “Football today is money but he could have left earlier”

Zeman on Mancini’s sudden change of bench from Italy to Saudi Arabia. The Pescara coach does not spare criticism.

Debut day for the new one Italian national team led by Luciano Spalletti, with the Azzurri playing against North Macedonia this Saturday at 8.45pm. An opinion on the sudden departure of the former coach, Roberto Mancini, Zdenek was asked Zeman, an institution of the Italian benches and today at the helm of the Pescara. These are some of his statements reported by lacasadic.com:

“I think Mancini made the choice that everyone would have made, today football is money and you go where you can get more. In that situation, However, seeing as there are qualifying matches these days, he could have thought about it before, because I know he also had offers from other important national teams, and don’t wait until the last moment. I say this for Italian football.”

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