After Italy missed the World Cup, there were many Italian Italian celebrities who boosted the morale of players and fans and believed that everything would be better, but there was a fact in front of the Italian national team.
In yesterday's article, Tan Qiujun mentioned that in order to cope with the World Cup play-off, Mancini summoned a total of 33 international players to the training base, that is, he was worried about injuries, resulting in no one being available, after being eliminated by North Macedonia, there were 7 players in the Italian team, who had returned to the club for various reasons.
Immobile was very decisive
It is believed that Italy's number one striker, Inmobile, has broken the defense after this defeat, he is fed up with every loss he has to carry the pot, and winning the European Championship has also satisfied him, he will bid farewell to the Italian national team.
But it should be noted that the 33 Internationals in Italy can be said to be extremely scattered, they are from 17 clubs, the teams that contribute the most international footballers are: Roma, Lazio, Juventus, but they only contributed 4 people in total, and there are 8 players from 8 different clubs!
That's a huge conundrum for Italy and Mancini, how to pinch players from so many different regions and different leagues into one whole.
No wonder no one in Italy wants Mancini to leave
Of these 17 clubs, only 4 are foreign, providing 5 players for the Italian national team, which means that the Italian team is relatively dependent on domestic teams.
However, here's the problem: in the statistics of foreign media this season, most of the 20 teams in Serie A have become "mercenary legions", that is, the number of foreign aid in the team is far greater than that of local players.
First of all, let's talk about the current top four of Serie A as a case:
Ac Milan are currently at the top of the Serie A list, but more than 74% of the players in their squad are foreign players, and less than 30% are Italian players! There are 27 players in the ac Milan first team, only 7 players have Italian citizenship, including Italian three-goal Mirante, as well as Gabia who can't play, Romagnoli, who may leave the team, and the indispensable Little Maldini.
AC Milan's Serie A appearance schedule
Of the 11 players who played the most, ac Milan only had 3 Italian players on the list, and ac Milan was not alone, and the top four Serie A teams were not much better.
Napoli's first-team, currently in second place, has 25 players and six Italian players in total, and it goes without thinking that they also have several players who are barely able to play: 21-year-old defender Alessandro Zanoli, who has only played 37 minutes in total this season, and 22-year-old goalkeeper Malferra has not played.
There are three players who can appear in ac Milan's 11-man squad, 28-year-old striker Politano, 30-year-old striker Insigne and 28-year-old defender Di Lorenzo.
Third-placed Inter Milan
Inter have 8 Italian players in the 27ers' squad, but of the 11 players, only Barrera and youngster Bastoni can be in the top, in addition to the 39-year-old three-goal Cordaz is basically a number, 34-year-old center-back Rakinoa played a total of 321 minutes.
Inter Milan also have 32-year-old Damian and 33-year-old D'Ambrosio, and the Mesozoic generation is not very rich.
Juventus, with a 26ers first-team squad, has more "intentions", a total of 11 Italian players, but it should be noted that Juventus' second and third goals are Italian, and this is also inseparable from their efforts to find talented players, such as Juve's young striker Moise Keane on loan at Everton (many news indicate that Juve are ready to retire from the 22-year-old Italian international).
According to statistics, of the 20 italian teams, only 2 teams, the number of local players can account for the majority, respectively, empoli, who is currently ranked 13th in Serie A, who accounts for 38% of foreign aid; while Genoa, which is still in the relegation zone, their number of foreign aid accounts for 36.2% of the whole team! In this big list, only Genoa's 35-year-old goalkeeper Siguri was selected for the big list!
All four teams are Italian managers
Pioli of ac Milan, Allegri of Juventus, Spatile of Naples, inzaghi Jr. of Inter Milan, all of them are Italian coaches.
Although the number of Local players in Serie A teams is insufficient, which is not the fundamental reason for italy's defeat in the play-offs this year, Liao Qiujun believes that this fact is indeed one of the straws that crushed the Italian team to some extent.
It is no wonder that after the Italian team was eliminated, many Italian celebrities called for a fundamental reform of the Italian youth training to improve the survival rate of the youth training, and although the naturalized players can help Italy solve some problems, they cannot solve all the problems.
As for why Italy has so many coaches, Liao Qiujun also said his own conjecture: on the one hand, Italy is conservative and prefers to appoint its own coaches, in the top ten of Serie A, only Roma (Portugal's Mourinho), Verona (Croatia's Tudor) are non-Italian, in addition, in addition, of the 20 teams in Serie A, only 5 coaches are non-Italian coaches.
The Italian team, looking relatively conservative
Secondly, the appeal of serie A to top coaches is indeed declining, because in recent years Serie A has not performed well in European competitions, and it is very easy to lose important stars, which has also caused a large number of local coaches to find a way to participate in the top league.
But it should be noted that there are not many famous Italian coaches, but the current Italian national team coach selection is limited to coaches such as Cannavaro and Ranieri, which is indeed a bit strange, which may prove that the italian national team's coaching position has a certain gap compared with the salary of The Serie A coach.
Looking at the news in 2021, Tanqiujun found that Mancini had renewed his contract with the Italian national team that year, and the annual salary was increased to 3 million euros, and according to previous reports, Allegri returned to Juve with an annual salary of about 9 million euros, and Pioli, who was once the lowest annual salary in the top four of Serie A, is basically similar to Mancini.
The appeal of Serie A is disappearing with the decline of wage levels, and if Serie A does not take this opportunity to improve the living environment of youth training, the situation of the Italian team in the future will not be too wonderful.
The happiest thing is that under the persuasion of the Italian Football Association, Mancini seems to have the hope of staying, but it should be noted that he has not completely cut off the channels for the club to contact himself, Mancini may still leave the team, and the Italian national team wants to get back on track, it must be promoted to youth training!