You don't leave there National football team with an email. There is a way and a way to say goodbye. The one chosen by surprise by the coach of the Italian national football team was the worst and reveals all the narcissism and infantile hysteria that have always characterized Roberto Mancini, as a footballer and as a trainer. Mancini won a lot: league titles in Italy and England and will be remembered forever for the triumphant conquest of the Europeans from London. But the way he took his leave with an email and with a sibylline motivation (“Personal choice”) on a hot August Sunday will not be remembered as an example of style. The elegance of his late friend Gianluca vialli it was anything but.
Paul this morning I condo told in Repubblica that Mancini had been tired and above all demotivated for some time, perhaps since the day in which his Italy had sensationally failed to qualify for the World Cup. An unbearable disfigurement for a lucky but successful coach. And one can also understand that the scent of Arab money did the rest and finally convinced him. But there is way and way. Down from the tower.
