Del Piero: “Football in Italy is boring because the level is lower. Mancini? A bad figure”

“The data is clear. The Calcium in Italy it has become boring, because the level has dropped, compared to the past. The strongest, the greatest, came to play here, everyone wanted to compete here. Now the strongest, the greatest, go to play in the Premier League, in La Liga, even in France or Germany. Not here”. Word of Alessandro Del Piero, interviewed by Walter Veltroni for the “Corriere della Sera”.

“This is true for us. But in England football is not boring. In my opinion other factors also count in this disaffection. First of all the irruption of technology. Telephones, video games have a level of satisfaction of the need for entertainment incomparable to that of my childhood. The digital society makes us live better, but it takes away our creativity”.

“On the speech Mancini I can only say, living abroad a lot, that, in general, we really made a bad impression – added Del Piero -. There is a desire on the part of the Saudi world to have their say on football: they are organizing, they have incredible funds and this, let's face it, helps their project. Sometimes it is really difficult to say no, other times you can succeed. It depends, it also depends on what each person is looking for".