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Ronaldo, Berlusconi, Francisco Franco and Ruud Gullit: Capello's ten famous phrases
Fabio Capello, a football icon, reflects on his career and figures such as Ronaldo and Berlusconi, while also tackling controversial topics such as Spanish politics and Calciopoli.
Eighty years of Fabio Capello. Protagonist of the last four decades of football, since the early nineties, when he started from the most prestigious bench in that period, Silvio Berlusconi's Milan. "My adventure at Real Madrid ended with a phone call from Berlusconi who asked me to return to coach Milan. I owed everything to him and I couldn't say no to him."
“If you want to score you have to hit the target.” One contested sentence was the one about Spanish politics. "Francisco Franco left a legacy of order. In Spain everything works and works well, there is education, cleanliness, respect and little bureaucracy." Oh God, that's not always the case.
"I'm for total technology. In all sports, from rugby to basketball to tennis, there is technology. I was eliminated from the World Cup with England for a goal or no goal. You work for two years and after a mistake like that you go home. It's an important thing."
"A club has the right to take whoever it wants: if a fan doesn't like it, they won't go to the stadium that season. Well, in Italy the fans, and organized support in particular, have too much power."
"I am of the opinion that the more you whistle the more you make mistakes. The English meter is better, in this sense. In Italy, slow motion is analyzed too much to justify or condemn the team's performances. And as long as there is discussion about minimum contacts, simulators are justified."
On Ronaldo. He showed up in Madrid who was 96 kg, I asked him to get to 88-90. There was nothing to be done. He was a great player, but a negative leader for the group. We sold him in January and the environment in the team changed completely: we managed to recover nine points from Barcelona, even if the media impact was enormous.
More on Ronaldo. "I remember that Silvio Berlusconi called me to ask me how he was. I told him that he didn't even train and that he really loved parties and women, so signing him would have been a mistake. The next day I saw the headline in the newspaper: 'Ronaldo in Milan'. It was a lot of fun."
About a possible invitation to dinner. "Ruud Gullit said he would never go out to dinner with her." The answer was: "I wouldn't go to dinner with Gullit: I would have to pay."
On Calciopoli and the 2010-11 victory by the Rossoneri. "Moratti says that the 2006 Scudetto is his? And I say it's mine. I still have the medal at home, no one took it away from me. This is Milan's second "real" title, because last year was also a balanced tournament. In the previous ones, however, there was no competition for Inter."
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