Recently, Cannavaro, who is celebrating his 50th birthday, gave an exclusive interview to the Italian media "Corriere della Sera", in which he specifically talked about his desire to return to coaching, but only because he has too little coaching experience in Italy, so he is not interested.
It is undeniable that Cannavaro's coaching ability is indeed not high, but aside from the level factor, the cruelty and ruthlessness of his treatment of the former Chinese club he coached may be the fundamental reason why major professional clubs now respect him.
For example, Cannavaro talked about his last coaching experience so far, which was Serie B side Benevento, although only 3 of 17 games won was really bad, but the coach was still able to easily find the excuse that his former club did not buy people in the winter window, did not give himself small gifts, and let himself bear the pain of being a good woman who was difficult to cook without rice.
Regardless of Benevento's poor results, whether it is because the club's top management is not a dime, or whether it is because the team is not competitive, and Cannavaro, who has coached a giant team, cannot give full play to his coaching skills, Cannavaro is cruel and vicious to the former club's "claim" methods.
At the beginning of 2020, Tianjin Tianhai, which had just been thrillingly relegated, could not be solved because of the rupture of the capital chain, and still fell in front of the entry threshold of the Football Association that year. The reason why it was impossible to raise enough access fees with the help of a potential new owner was not only the chaotic atmosphere created by the president and senior management of the Football Association at the time, but also largely because the salary arrears of the team's former coach Cannavaro could not be resolved.
In the 2017 season, Cannavaro led the Chinese Super League newcomer Tianjin Tianhai to win the third place in the league and qualified for the AFC Champions League. But afterwards, because Ka Shuai was favored by Guangzhou Evergrande, and Tianjin Tianhai also fell in love with Sosa, who had a higher level, Cannavaro and Tianjin Tianhai broke up peacefully through friendly negotiation.
Ka Shuai did not delay Tianhai to hire a higher-level coach, and Tianhai did not prevent Ka Shuai, who still had a contract, from climbing another high branch. But when Tianhai suddenly fell into trouble two years later, Cannavaro seemed to take advantage of the danger and described the friendly breakup at that time as the former owner's injustice to him.
When he left Tianhai, he was simply fired by Tianhai, and the other party failed to pay him the termination fee according to the regulations.
It is worth mentioning that when Cannavaro was coaching Evergrande, he was still in the middle of the Chinese Super League, and took advantage of the opportunity to return to Europe to participate in the senior competition, and attended a hearing in which Tianhai's former foreign aid Modeste sued his former club for salary arrears. It can be regarded as a way to successfully negotiate for wages maliciously, and it can be done in a way that can be done to the fullest.
It is unknown whether Cannavaro, who drove Tianjin Tianhai to a dead end, did not get the termination money that should not have belonged to him, but it is certain that Cannavaro is still using his usual tricks to harm Chinese professional football clubs, and has not changed in the slightest.
In 2021, due to Evergrande's debt crisis, the Guangzhou team, which has been renamed, and Cannavaro terminated the contract amicably through negotiation. Although Cannavaro's contract has not yet expired, at that time Cannavaro said that he was giving up 15 months of salary and bonuses in a high-profile way, which will be more than 24 million euros (about 179 million yuan) plus taxes.
This matter was not only written in black and white in the announcement of the Guangzhou team, but also reflected in an exclusive interview with the local Italian media. But who would have thought that when the Guangzhou team, which had been relegated to the Central League three years later, was also facing an access crisis like Tianhai in 2020, Cannavaro, who never wanted to waste any money-making meeting, made another move.
According to current media reports, the chances of the Guangzhou team gaining access to the Football Association are quite slim, even if the ecological environment of Chinese football has improved, but because Cannavaro insisted that the termination of the contract between the Guangzhou team and himself was unreasonable and legal, and the other party owed him money, the Guangzhou team is also facing the same desperate situation as Tianjin Tianhai.
Is it shameless? Unscrupulous? The answer is undoubted, but in the face of Cannavaro's almost rogue unreasonable demands, because of the support of FIFA, it is the Chinese club that is injured every time, and it will face an inexplicable and helpless ending.
In the face of such a brazen person, the only thing that can make Chinese fans talk about comfort may be the deteriorating coaching credibility behind Cannavaro's malicious salary demand. In response to a question from Corriere della Sera about why he had not been able to receive an offer from his new club for a long time, he attributed it to "his lack of experience coaching at a local club". This is true, because all of his coaching experience has been done overseas except for Benevento.
But as the saying goes, if you don't know what you don't know, you can't do anything unless you do, in the era of the Internet with interconnected information, Cannavaro has set off a bloody storm in China, and European football cannot be kept in the dark. For such a coach with limited ability and character problems, even if it is a low-level professional league, I am afraid that he will not dare to throw an olive branch easily.
Similar to Cannavaro's situation, Rooney, a famous player in English football, has long been famous all over the world as a player, but it is a mess to pick up the coaching whip. Even so, Rooney's many more invitations to native and native languages than Cannavaro speaks volumes. Even if Rooney is fired by Birmingham this time, his reemployment prospects may be much more optimistic than Cannavaro's.