Prandelli, enough with football: “The bench I dream of is the one in the park with my grandchildren” – Football

He had already slipped away now Cesare Prandelli officially says no more col soccer. A sport that creates more and more pressure, too many for the coach from Orzinuovi. “The passion remains, a great passion. I’m doing very well, everything else passes. I always receive requests, but at the moment the bench I’m dreaming of is the one in a park with my grandchildren to enjoy life with them. Just train” , he told “Radio Anch’Io Sport” on Radio1. His last bench in 2021, his second adventure in Florence.

Prandelli: “Vlahovic is strong, Juve need him little and badly”

Months, those in Tuscany, in which Prandelli had time to understand the talent of Dusan Vlakhovic and launching him in spite of the difficulties of the Viola team. The Serbian considers him a second dad and for this reason the coach took the liberty of commenting on the moment of crisis the attacker is experiencing. Against the Sampdoria he made a mistake even from eleven meters. “Penalties can be missed, but the reaction he had in the 15 minutes following the penalty spot mistake was that of a great player. He didn’t lower his head, he tried to score in every way, he was unlucky in two situations, but still contributed to the fourth goal of the Juventus. I think he’s a very, very strong player, I think it’s more a team problem: if you have a player like that you have to finalize more, but especially when you go on the outside it’s not that you have to make feints and counter-feints, so it becomes very complicated for a striker.”

Prandelli: “National team in crisis? The projects I proposed in 2010 are needed”

At the end of March theItaly will face England And Malta in Euro24 qualifying. The coach Roberto Mancini he called up Mateo Retegui and Andrea Compagno, strikers unknown to the general public to try to solve the goal problem. Prandelli, who was coach of the National from 2010 to 2014, he has clear ideas on the subject: “The years go by, but the arguments are always the same, the time has come to take the situation in hand and try to understand what the federation can do. In those years we were involved in the projects, we have also made proposals, but we have been somewhat rebounded. At an international level we are very competitive up to the age of 19, the data is sensational: our national youth teams achieve very important results. From 19 onwards, the majority of these players is lost: either because the big teams choose foreign players, or because our boys feel more pressure than their foreign peers. We have made some proposals: one was to create a national team, after the Under 21, who could participate in the Serie B championship. I think it’s still a very valid proposal.”