Zoff: "Me as the FIGC president? It's too late, I'm 75 and belong to football's past"

Polemics keep on going on these days in Italy. The azzurri won't go to the World Cup and many former players ask for a revolution. Dino Zoff is one of them as he talked to Radio Incontro Olympia: "I honestly thought that we could have won against Sweden but it didn't go like that. Maybe we missed a bit of luck in that last game but that doesn't matter anymore now. I think Italy is the only great team missing the World Cup. I'm convinced the decisive game was the one against Spain, that loss has made us loose our confidence. I read a lot of wrong things though, we need to find the right way to stand up again and face this situation".

About the solutions to make the Calcio go forward: "The problem is that there isn't a lot of Italians in our football. I think we should interfere in that purpose. In the big important teams, there aren't Italian players blocks that can help the National team. The real thing is that there isn't a lot of Italian in the youngsters' teams. Buffon? I'm sorry for him, he could have made a great record of played world cups. It's only logical that he felt bad, I can understand it. I think that he's got the qualities to have an important role in the Italian football in the future".

About the future: "Me as the FIGC president? I'm 75, I belong to football's past. I did a revolutionary gesture by resigning, I knew it would have penalized me. Nowadays I belong to the silent majority and it's okay for me".