“Technically we are a country that no longer produces talented players.” Paolo Maldini gets straight to the point when talking about Italian football, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, and identifies the youth sectors as the main problem of a movement that has struggled for years to produce players capable of making a difference. A situation closely observed during the years spent in the Rossoneri youth teams by his sons Christian and Daniel: “Something is not working at a systemic level. My sons saw it in Milan’s youth teams: it’s all about tactics. If a boy has talent, it’s a problem.”
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The path, according to the former captain, should be reversed. First the ball, then the tactics. But the reconstruction should also concern the professional system. The former defender proposes “rules that would push Italian players to play in Serie A, B and C teams,” while acknowledging the limits imposed by European regulations. And he points out another weak point: the training of coaches. “Today a coach who follows kids between 10 and 14 years old earns one thousand euros a month, he has to have a second job — his words — We have to help them, because that is the decisive age”.
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These are ideas that Maldini would have liked to bring inside the Federation as well, in the role of technical director of Italy. The project, however, stopped before it started after the break of the “relationship based on trust” with the FIGC president Giovanni Malagò. Now the task passes to Claudio Ranieri. Maldini recognizes his value: “Having a figure like Ranieri is a plus, something exceptional.” But he warns: “The work to be done is enormous.” The issue, however, remains broader than the National Team. Because if Italian football wants to become competitive again, it must first find its players again.
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