Zeman freewheeling: “Totti was the best I’ve ever coached. Today I like Milan”
In an interview with “Free”, Zdenek Zeman speaks in no uncertain terms about the situation of Italian football, also referring to his famous complaints regarding football “in the hands of pharmacies”, Calciopoli and football betting. To a specific question about Juventus, the former coach of Rome, Lazio and Foggia he affirms that he has not regretted his utterances at all: “If today there were the same problems as then, I would repeat exactly what I said at the time. I remember that in 1999, in my second year at Rome, we finished fifth with 21 points subtracted for strange referee mistakes. Now I’m out of football, as I said, and I hope that similar events or like the one that happened to Palomino, remain isolated facts. But they say things have changed. It is not so?”.
Zeman today he is 75 years old and lives between Palermo and Mazara, “now out of football that counts, I just have to see the sea even if I peek at it from time to time”. Retracing his famous training methods, Zeman reiterates that “the perfect physical preparation is the basis of the result that is obtained, then, on the pitch. Today I see some teams, even top ones, who train little. The players are tired after two runs, they put their hands on their hips. In England they run twice as much and train better “.
According to Zeman, in Italy “the players hold the ball too much and walk. They slow down everything. They don’t speed up, they don’t eat the pitch”, while in England “they run twice as much”. Zeman also remembers the ancient feeling of him with Beppe Signorihowever, specify that “the strongest player I coached in 30 years of football was Totti in Rome. He saw things on the pitch that others, although good, were unable to notice. Francesco trained well but he didn’t need it. “
With respect to the next championship, Zeman notes “the tendency to recreate a varied championship with seven sisters, as it once was: Juve, Inter, Milan, Rome, Lazio, Naples and Fiorentina. Among them Milan convinces me the most. He won by playing best of all, even if Ibra was little or nothing on the pitch. If he had merits, he highlighted them in the locker room “. As he heir to him indicates Italian, who” hhe did well in Spezia and very well in Florence. He has aesthetic taste and tactical preparation. “Compared to Rome by Mourinho stings: “Mou is a character who attracts attention and you journalists like it so much. But the field is something else”. And on Juve, without Pogba in the first part of the season, he adds: “It can’t be based on one player. It has to be built to win but regardless of Pogba.”
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