“Today footballers are companies, we played for the shirt”

Ottavio Bianchiformer player and coach of Napoli and Atalanta, gave an interview to ‘Radio Goal’, live on Kiss Kiss Napoli: “Atalanta-Napoli? The players put on the show, not the coaches who at most give the directions. Now we play with sixteen players and the players make the difference. Often it is the substitutes who decide the matches, the starters and reserves no longer exist.

I modules? A coach cannot have just one module in mind, the protagonists are always the players. Atalanta has always competed in championships to avoid relegation, now it is part of the elite of world football and is no longer a provincial team. In Gasperini they also bought players who were up to par.

Kvaratskhelia’s farewell? That’s fine, but let’s not forget that a footballer today has the same turnover as a large company. It cannot be thought that today we play for the shirt like we did who were poor men in terms of salary. Today the footballer goes where it suits him and where it suits his agent”.

Belgium

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