Italy's shock World Cup qualifying
exit to North Macedonia shows that it is going through a poor
run of form but the squad is strong, 1982 World Cup winning
captain and former Italy boss Dino Zoff said Friday.
"We have a good squad, but we're not in the best form , and it
showed yesterday," said the goalkeeping legend, who narrowly
missed out on coaching the Azzurri to the 2000 European title
after a French golden goal.
"We can't say that Italy doesn't have players, it has always had
the important 30 ones, and this group has them too.
"We didn't put the ball in the net yesterday but we have
forwards."
Asked if coach Roberto Mancini should resign, Zoff said "I don't
know, it's up to him. I don't want to crucify him, it wouldn't
be fair and I don't want to give such judgements".
Zoff also said that "younger players are maturing more quickly
these days but there are less of them around than in my day".
He said he would cut two teams from Serie A to help raise
quality.
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