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Welcome to the very first Football Italia live show. I'm Lorenzo Bettoni. I'm joined today by Richard Hall. First news of the day, Richard is back from holiday. Welcome back. >> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah, in this lighting it makes me look red. I didn't burn, I promise. I'm not like the England team. >> [laughter] >> Uh no, it's getting coming back though. I mean, end of the World Cup and then bang, straight into uh what feels like straight into a a new season. So, I'm really really looking forward to it. It's a lot going on. >> Yesterday there was the World Cup final. There are a few Serie A angles that I'll be taking on with Giancarlo Rinaldi later on here on the channel. Uh just a brief comment on this, Richard. Uh deserved victory victory, I would say. It's a shame that Spain have no Serie A representatives in their team. And I feel it's it shows a little bit the state of Italian football currently, unfortunately. >> Yeah, a little bit. But, at the end of the day, you know, it was a deserved win from Spain. I think we can definitely say that. When you look at the statistics, um so, it's ending what was a very long but very good World Cup. And um yeah, everyone will be focused back onto club football um probably as of now. >> It's a shame also that Lautaro Martínez wasn't involved after scoring against England in the final. He didn't uh he didn't play a single minute mostly because, I think, of the red card shown to Enzo Fernández cuz otherwise he would have been one to to focus on for the second half or at least for extra time. >> Yeah, I mean, look, from an Inter perspective, any minute he doesn't play is always good for Inter. But, um no, he did [laughter] I thought I did I did feel sorry for him. He looked gutted um at the end. And you can understand it because you would have thought maybe there was some um chances potentially, you know, for him to do something if Fernández doesn't get sent off, especially with his, like you said, a goal against England. So, yeah, it was um it was a shame for him. >> Let's move quickly to the news of the day, Richard, cuz as I said, it's the first day of the Football Italia live show. Uh we've got our first comment already, so ciao to all of us all of the of the subscribers and not so subscribers following us. Uh big news of the day coming from Sky Sport Italia. First, not long ago, they released an interview with FIGC president, Giovanni Malagò, saying that it won't take long before Italy appoint a new head coach. But, there is another even bigger news coming from Sky and released just a few minutes after the Malagò interview, which is Maldini and Leonardo met Pep Guardiola in Barcelona this past weekend to offer him the Italy job. 100% the news of the day here in Italy. It's coming from a big broadcaster, big media outlet such as Sky Sport, so Guardiola is a name that has been in the frame since the Azzurri failed to qualify for the World Cup. We spoke about Italy coaches, potential Italy coaches, in previous episodes here in the channel. I think it's an exciting news whether it's going to go all the way until the end and Italy will appoint Guardiola remains to be seen. Still very hard, I think. But, it's an exciting update that we got from Sky here. >> [snorts] >> Yeah, it's huge. As huge as any football if it comes through and if you remember when we spoke about it on the channel, we looked at Mancini, of course, you know, and others Conte. And one of the things that we we didn't really go into depth on was Guardiola. Probably because he's been this almost mythical name, but when you look at the Azzurri, when you look at Italian football, Guardiola just seems out of reach a little bit. Even now as the news is breaking, there's a question marks over salary. There's question mark, you know, you start thinking of all the reasons why not. But I think when you have Maldini, Leonardo meeting him in Barcelona for the first time now it's oh, this is this could be something. It's quite real. With that added to the fact that the statement's been made that there will be some news in the next couple of days. Um it does give a little bit of hope for the Azzurri. We'll go into what that means for Italy later probably, but I think one of the things that we probably from the first statement that came out it did look as though it was again, what about the salary? You know, we still have this on the books. We still can't you know, can we shoot for the stars almost? Can we do this? I need to confirm with Maldini and Leonardo. It was only 2 weeks ago. All these different things. But then this comes out and it just looks as though Italy do well are heading down that channel very very rapidly. So it would be really interesting to follow that story over the next couple of days cuz it would be huge for Italy. >> I'll take you some through some of the Malagò quotes to Sky Sport Italia which again were released before the news that Maldini and Leonardo had met Guardiola in Barcelona last weekend. First of all he spoke about the appointment on of Maldini and Leonardo. We know the negotiations have been ongoing for a couple of weeks before they actually agreed to take the job and again it's something that we discussed previously here on the Football Italia channel. What Malagò said is over the past 2 weeks I've had six to eight video calls with them, Maldini and Leonardo, during which we discussed everything and the topic we talked about the least was the financial and contractual side of things. He will talk again about the financial side of things regarding the new potential new coach as well. Malagò also revealed that Maldini and Leonardo went to Coverciano which is Italy's training center in Florence, not too far away from where I'm now. Um they took pictures of the training center. They took the first few informations and then they accepted the the offers well from the Italian Federation. So now they are in charge. They have to pick a new coach. There have been a lot of rumors, many names thrown there by um by Italian media. Guardiola is one, Pirlo, Conte, Mancini. Conte and Mancini were especially linked at the beginning before the actual Malagò tenure started. Um now it's uh it Last week it was more going towards Pirlo. Then uh Um I will tell you what Malagò said about Pirlo and Conte. For now I can say that he confirmed that they are not the only ones who are being who are being considered by the Federation, by Maldini and Leonardo. He said the final decision will be a shared decision. Honestly, if you just think about the names, I you can't think about a better option than Guardiola, can't you? >> No, not at all. I think again, for me with Guardiola, and we'll come into this later on, it's the I'll be so interested on the length of the contract. Because the potential here with Guardiola is huge. In the sense of, you know, what he can instill in the national team, what he can do as a almost a model. He could start to reshape Italian football, never mind just the national team. So there is a huge elements of that. Now, you know, if this is one of those situations where, you know, they they I can't see anything else but that long-term contract. And when you compare that to And listen, I said, you know, I'm a big fan of Mancini. Him coming back in, you can see that safe pair of hands almost. Conte, you know what you get. Obviously, the Pirlo option is a bit bit different. There's probably more debate on that we could have, but Guardiola there is a standout option. Um and what he would be able to give the national side. So, again, when you see what the with the rest of them, and this is only my opinion, of course, it you look at coaches who can look at the next 4 years and help the national team progress. When you look at Guardiola, for me, it becomes a much bigger picture in Italian football. Um and we can see the how the the teams domestically they start not only changing the way they play in some respects cuz we saw that in Italy just from uh sorry, in England with the way that Man City transformed the league in the way that Guardiola played and the culture that he put in, but also into the point of if Guardiola does come in here, he will be looking for certain types of players to come through. Will it change the fact of the way Italy look at the youth products? It's a huge much bigger picture with Guardiola. So, it's a really exciting time. >> To be fair, Guardiola spoke before the weekend saying that uh he needs a break, basically. So, he said he's currently not looking for a new um a new job, but of course, Maldini and Leonardo are well aware of that, but still made the trip to uh Barcelona, which makes us uh somehow uh hopeful that they will manage to actually convince Pep Guardiola to uh to get the job. Um a few more quotes from uh Malagò. Uh he said, "There is no conflict whatsoever over the head coach, but the idea of sharing the decisions start from the principle that everyone has to be on the same page." And then again, to those who say we should simply appoint a big big name figure, my first question would be, "Is that Is that person even interested?" The second is "What demands or expectations would they have?" And then "Would those demands be compatible with our financial situation?" So, yet again, it's not just a matter of uh project for Guardiola and for the Italian national team and for the federation, but it's also a matter of money and this is something that obviously can't be overlooked because I mean, Guardiola is probably the best coach of his generation, one of the best if not the best of all time and so you would assume that the wages are not those that just a regular coach would get. >> Yeah, massively. I mean, you can't expect him to do what he did when he just went to Brescia, you know, and just decided to leave his giant hair. You know, do you a favor again. Um yeah, look, it's going to be a big a big move money-wise that is. Whether if Guardiola wants a break cuz you mentioned that came up and also whether that works out in the um the financial year for Italy if the Azzurri, sorry, for what they want to do, you know, would it be an option to delay that appointment till 2027? You know, we don't know. But it certainly looks I think when you weigh that up and if you listen to the quotes without that information from Sky, for me it looks like Guardiola is probably a little bit further away. When you see that they met Guardiola and had those initial talks, it I can't see personally, although it is Italy, why they would send, you know, obviously Maldini and Leonardo to meet with Guardiola if they didn't think they could hit at least an attractive bracket to bring him in. Otherwise, the that whole thing is operation is futile. So, yeah, it's it's interesting again, but then it like I say, he isn't the only option. Uh there are others as well. >> There are other options as well and uh the philosophy behind choosing the next coach I think is an important one. The last video I did with uh Adam Summerton last week discussing we got actually got two on Italy, one specifically on Pirlo as well, two different from last week. In one of these episodes I said, either you go big or you pick a name that is not I mean, not well known, but it's somebody who knows the federation inside out. It's not a big name, not because De la Fuente did what he did with Spain national team winning the Euros and winning the World Cup. But that's a pathway that you don't see in Italy. A coach that comes through the the federation, goes through under 17, 18, under 19, and then into the senior team after actually developing all these players at an international level, and then some of those have made the big leap to the senior team winning the World Cup as well. This is something that Malago again mentioned in today's interview. He said Lionel Scaloni, Luis de la Fuente had a fairly modest playing career. Mentioned that Scaloni, especially Scaloni, he played with Lazio, he played with Atalanta, but he was not a top defender status. De la Fuente inherited Spain after iconic manager such as Luis Enrique came through Spain's system and coached many of those players from the under 21 and younger age groups. What does that tell us? Regardless of the individuals, first you need organization and methodology right. So, one interesting thing about the Maldini role here would be which direction are we taking? Are we going through a Spain model where the teams train all in the same way from the younger ages until the senior team, or we going towards a pathway where you focus more on the single player development? You coach them and you teach them certain things technically much before than tactically. Like the tactical side of things should come into play later on. Which direction Maldini wants to give is also a big decision that he has to take, but this is a long-term thing, while the short-term things is uh you go big and you get Guardiola or you get somebody else. If it's not Guardiola, who would you go for? >> Well, this is just before we go there. >> Not necessarily a name, not necessarily a name, but you can just say a profile. >> No, no, from from my point of view, I think that the two could be the same with Guardiola. Say for instance, um it go cuz it because it's Guardiola, then I think you automatically are going to get a cultural change. I think that, you know, the way he will look at playing will have to integrate cuz let's not forget he's not coached national side before. So, from my point of view, you know, it's a different element of club football here. Uh but what he will want to do is make it so that that culture for him, that Italy play football uh he is an Italophile, he will want to put that culture in. So, you are actually, I think, if you went for a lesser coach, let that's the wrong word, lesser coach, what I mean is you take someone like No, but you know, if you took a Pirlo on board so Yeah, yeah, it's clear, it's clear. If you got the in someone with the influence to have the stature of the name to be respected in his opinion, and also can try and do what, like you say, De Francesco or Scolari or Gareth Southgate did in England for instance, you know, try and change the the structure and the way that those people players move up, you can definitely get that with a Pirlo. I don't think with Guardiola it just means that he's going to coach the first team. I think automatically by having him, that cultural change will come through. However, saying that, you take those two and I think that maybe the likes of Pirlo, the likes of Guardiola the Guardiola, that's what you'll get. You'll just get a a plus version with Guardiola in some respects by some some way. I think the biggest problem you have maybe it's not so much as a bigger name, but if you went for a Mancini or a Conte, you are just going to get almost more of the same. And I think we're going to see much more in the sense of the development etc. So, it will be very, very different, but it realistically is going to look like with Guardiola here. Um I think you would see a seismic change in in what Italy has to do and how they think about playing football. >> I've got an interesting comment here from one of our followers. If Italy had played like Argentina with zero shots on goal and none at all until the 117th minute, people would never stop talking about it until the end of time. That's I have to say something. That's something I thought for the in the semi-final as well if Tuchel was Italian. Tommaso Tuchello, maybe. >> [laughter] >> If it was Tommaso Tuchello, that would have been different. I mean, English media were quite furious with Tuchel anyway. >> Yeah, they were. I mean, they they thought that he'd shut up shop too early and should have tried to persist a little bit, but that's by the by now. Yeah, look, I do think with it again, it's cultural, isn't it? I think if Italy had to play like Argentina is Infinity Droid Army's mentions there, you know, and has zero shots on goal, you know, we've seen Italy win that way. So, you know, it depends on which I want to know which way he means. Does he mean he's going to be spoken about in a bad way or a good way? Because it's >> In [laughter] a bad way. >> Yeah, you could say Italy as well, you know, in the past we could say, you know, "That was a great >> At least we had some shots on target. At least we had some shots on target. I have to say when I when I watched the when like 2026 2006, 20 years ago, sadly, when we won the World Cup, I was I mean, I was totally transformed by the game and I couldn't I couldn't really analyze the game. I was barely not even 18, but I thought it was a fairly balanced game. When I watched the highlights the day after and still continue to watch those highlights, I'm like, man, >> [laughter] >> lucky. That was not a hell of a performance, but yeah, again, we we matched that strength of the France national team and it came out a very different a very different type of game. Yesterday was really one-sided. I mean, it's there's Tony Kroos wrote an Instagram on Twitter football won and I really feel the same way cuz so so deserved. It's so deserved from from from from Spain. >> Yeah, I think so. But I do I do agree with the comment. I think that Italy would have been chastised absolutely for that. Um as as many other teams would have as well, you know, so again, over in the UK, a lot of people were saying it's a win for football. Um so, yeah, but I I unfortunately, you know, I think people have been chastising Italy in a different way anyway cuz they're obviously not even making it was a unfortunate, so. But anyway, >> We have another couple couple of nice comments here. We got Alessandro saying if we got if we if it's Guardiola, we are so back. All the Serie clubs will buy into his philosophy and football DNA. Uh There are there are different views on this. Uh for example, one thing that Fabio Capello keeps saying is that the uh trying to copy Guardiola has ruined Italian football because we don't have the same quality. I think this is more something that uh doesn't really has like I think we need to copy Guardiola not in terms of the way he plays, but more in the way that he thinks we we should develop young players. For example, Barcelona >> Exactly. >> nine players from La Masia, the Barcelona youth sector, >> Yes. >> in the World Cup final. >> Yeah. >> So, I think it's more it's more the long-term view than the way that you have to make the team play right now. >> Completely. I think you're going to get a bit of health. I think when you look if we go back to what was it now? You might correct me here. Around even 2017, you looked at the coaches like Sarri and Spalletti and you started to play a different way. Like it does in any country, it catches on. You know, Guardiola's influence does catch on because of what he's achieved and the way he plays. People I mean, it drives me insane sometimes if I'm honest. You know, I don't watch a lot of English football, but when you do, it's one thing seeing Manchester City or Arsenal playing out from the back in these wonderful little compact triangles and moves. It's really different when you see Norwich City or Stoke City do it. You know, and there's no reason that teams in division two should be doing this. So, it is different, but this comment about Guardiola saying that the the clubs will buy to his philosophy. I'm more I think there will be an adaptation. I think it will be a massive massive move, so people will buy into this in some respects. However, I agree with you hugely that it's more about and we talked about this when we talked about Mancini and Conte about how Italy starts looking at the youth systems and generating the best out of those youth young talents that they still do have but don't seem to achieve anything after whether it's under 15 to 17 level. And they get lost in Serie B and Serie A cheap ou