The former Argentine midfielder at Milan Football Week: “Fifa would take one who knows about football and not only of politics. Mancini was wrong to leave the national team, but maybe there will be time to return”
The third edition of the Milan Football Week, which started today from City Life (the conclusion on Sunday 15), also saw one of the greatest midfielders from the late 9000s as Juan Sebastian Veron among the protagonists. The Argentine, a great friend of Italy (played with the shirts of Sampdoria, Parma, Lazio and Inter winning a championship with the biancocelesti and one with the Nerazzurri), at the microphone of Mimmo Cugini has retraced the years of his career: numerous trophies with us but also in England and in his Argentina, where he concluded his career at the Autudiantes. “For South American football has always been a reason for life, a religion. Now even from us, even from us he commands the business and the passion is less and less. But football is always very popular, at every latitude. We have grown on the street and this gives advantages when you are on the field. I would like to Fifa? It would take one who does not only know about politics but also of football: today the games are too many, the world championship is also enlarged.” Veron also played in Boca Juniors, the team that was also of Diego Maradona. “I played with him, I lived with him some moments and for me it was a dream, since I grew up looking at his games. Finding him by side was incredible”.
The adventure in a
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Then the arrival in Italy. “The first team was Sampdoria in 1996, I did not speak Italian and I didn’t know what was waiting for me. When I entered the locker room I seemed little to be a small one in the presence of great players. I learned them how a professional player had to be performed. After I made a goal to Milan I understood what he wanted to say football in Italy, where then there were great champions. precision and power on punishments “. The trophies in Italy for Veron arrive with the transfer to Parma. “In those years there were the seven sisters and Parma was part of it: he had a great squad. There was also a nice environment and in those conditions it is unlikely that trophies do not arrive”. Then the transition to Lazio, with the “daring” Scudetto against Juve stopped in Perugia. “That Lazio deserved to win the championship, we celebrated it when they were still on the pitch. We were in the changing rooms and listened to the news from Perugia with the radio. Then we heard the scream of the Olimpico and understood …”. Further on, here is the transfer to Inter: “Roberto Mancini wanted me because he knew me and knew what I could give him. From there the cycle began that brought numerous badges and ended up with the Champions League 2010”. Mancini himself was a sort of guide for Veron. “He has always had the coach’s nature and then he showed that he can do it. I don’t know why he left the national team. He had won a European and then failed to qualify for the world championship, but it is very difficult nowadays to build a team at the national team level. Sometimes you don’t make the right decisions and his in my opinion has not been. But maybe there will be time to return to the blue … they all knew that Roberto would not be a great coach, For Simone Inzaghi of whom I didn’t think honestly that he would become so good. ”
Ouch Inter
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Inzaghi himself who left Inter after the debacle in the Champions League final to embrace Arabia. “We must never underestimate the details, the PSG perhaps at the beginning of the European adventure did not steal the eye. The spotlights, once they arrived at the semifinals, were focused more on Inter and Barcelona than on the PSG. In my opinion, the Inter came tired at this appointment, with too much pressure and never saw the ball. He had won the Scudetto perhaps would have gone differently”. A hint of Veron to our national team is inevitable, disastrous last night in Norway. “There is a problem of players from you. Before there were Pirlo, Totti, Del Piero and one like Morfeo barely went on the bench. Today is no longer so. If you go to the World Cup? I don’t know …”
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