In an extensive interview in ‘El Mundo’ during the Laureus Awards gala, Fabio Capello He has made it clear that, although he denies it, he is an anti-guardiolist. “No, no, at all. I value a lot to Guardiola As a coach, he has done wonderful things. I have lived three revolutions in football, one every 20 years or so: Cruyff Ajax, Milan de Sacchi and Barça de Guardiola. I have no problem saying it”start saying.
The former Italian coach, who had PEP at his orders in Rome, says “We do not discuss anything. He came to tell me how I had to do my job and I replied: ‘Put on running and then talk.’ I was on the field and I was not going to get him before people who had many things better than him. Without more. There the debate is over”. Then, he does not bite his tongue and attacks Catalan: “Do you know what I don’t like of Guardiola? His arrogance”.
Capello, during the laureus awards
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Capello gives free rein to what he thinks: “The Champions that won with the City was the only one in which he did not try anything weird in the decisive matches. But all the other years, in Manchester and Munich, on key days he always wanted to be the protagonist. He changed things and did inventions to say: ‘The players do not win, I win.’ And that arrogance has cost him several Champions. I respect him, but I see that clear. In addition, although that is no longer his fault, he has done tremendous damage to football”.
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Asked why it is what makes him think that he has hurt football, he replies: “Because everyone has spent 10 years trying to copy him. That has been charged Italian football, which has lost its nature. I said: ‘Parada now, you don’t have Guardiola players!’ In addition, the absurd idea was imposed that playing well was just that. Touch, touch, touch, touch, touch, touch, touch … Now in Italian football the goalkeeper plays the ball! A disaster and also a boredom that has frightened a lot of football people, just see the highlights. Why are you going to see 90 minutes of horizontal passes and passes without fighting, without races …? Luckily football is changing. It has changed it, the first, Spain by winning the Eurocup with two ends and playing fast”.
