frisko said:
1) I don't like the philosophy "play bad, get the result". Juve does that and they're free to do so. But I think it's rubbish and I was ashamed of Italy during Euro 2000, they were just disgraceful and they gave Italian football a very bad reputation.
I'm not saying that we should play bad. I'm saying that I don't mind if Italy play bad.
The critics can take their "Italy is anti-football" opinion and shove it up their arse.
2) Italy has played terrible football during major competions, always. We are known as the Catenaccio Team, which basically means that we defend with 10 men and we try and steal a goal. The only sparks came from one man, Roberto Baggio, who managed to make us dream at USA94. Handoyo, you say: who cares, we need to win, no matter how. Well we don't even do that! We haven't won anything since 1982! We defend and defend, then we crash out on penalties. And what do we do after? Moan, moan, moan. And then we play exactly the same in 2 years time.[/quote]
Yes, and let's hope the trend stops with Lippi.
As far as I can remember, Lippi wasn't a very defensive coach at all. He's balanced IMO.
frisko said:
3) Lippi has won one Champions League on penalties against Ajax in 1996. His international record with Juve is all but impressive. Juve has been struggling in Europe with him, always, getting to many draws, and crashing out.
I beg to differ. Lippi reached the CL final 4 times, winning it once. Don't look at the fact that he lost 3 finals. Look at the fact that he's able to take a team to be the second best in Europe for 4 seasons. There aren't many coach with a better record!!!
frisko said:
4) If Greece plays defensive, I understand. They haven't got major talents, only decent players. We went to Euro 2004 playing with Totti, Del Piero, Cassano, Vieri...for what?? So Cannavaro can play long balls looking for Vieri? In the national team we play the same football that teams in the bottom half of the table in serie A play. Is that good? No it's not.
But that was Trap.
This time, it's Lippi.
frisko said:
5) I just made some comments about Lippi and about the national team in general, if you don't mind. The fact that the subject of the thread is Lippi doesn't mean that I can't SLIGHTLY wonder off topic, right?
Oh.
Yeah. Of course.
We can talk about Italy NT in general. So, all in all, like you, I think Italy has under-achieved over the last decade or so. And Italy's long ball defensive tactic in Euro 2004 certainly didn't work. But, that is why Trap is sacked and Lippi is hired. I don't like the Trap, but not because he is defensive, but because he don't win with Italy. Let's hope that with Lippi it will change.
Let me pop a question for you, do you mind if we are branded anti-football but we won the WC 2006???
Handyo