2024-01-17 19:08:41
A long history of clashes between Roberto Mancini and his players
“Cowardly and psychologically complex.” With this sentence, Saudi football legend Yasser Al-Qahtani described the Italian veteran Roberto Mancini, the coach of the national team.
Mancini took over as coach of the Saudi national football team in August 2023. As he led him to achieve two victories in the first two official matches, against Pakistan and Jordan, in the Asian qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup; This came after a series of bad results in friendlies.
Saudi fans were optimistic about the two successive victories over Pakistan and Jordan. This is before the team’s appearance in the Asian Nations Cup, which is hosted by Doha, Qatar, from January 12 to February 10, 2024.
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This optimism did not last long; Roberto Mancini sparked a great controversy in the Saudi sports street, when he announced the exclusion of Al Hilal captain Salman Al Faraj, and the Al Nassr quartet, Nawaf Al Aqidi, Sultan Al Ghanem, Khaled Al Ghannam, and Muhammad Maran, and Al Ittifaq Square midfielder Ali Hazazi, from the Asian list, for disciplinary reasons. Which was later denied by these players.
Mancini’s justifications, in which he questioned the “patriotism” of these players; It came two days before the match between Saudi Arabia and Oman, in the first round of the sixth group competitions, in the Asian Nations Cup competition.
Despite the 2-1 victory over Oman; However, Mancini still receives violent criticism from a large number of media figures, sports pundits, and former players, similar to what Yasser Al-Qahtani did, who lost his mind due to what was known as the “rebel crisis.”
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Yasser Al-Qahtani strongly attacks Mancini:
• Mancini is a coward and does not deserve to coach Saudi Arabia
• Mancini is disrespectful and has a psychological complex
• A captain does not abandon his players, but Mancini did
• Why was he talking about the players yesterday when the meeting with them was a month and a half ago?
pic.twitter.com/a7bpqUWGtr– Amr (@bt3) January 16, 2024
The interesting thing is that this is not the first time that the Italian coach has entered into disputes with the stars of the teams or national teams that he has led throughout his coaching career.
The Arabic version of the “GOAL” website reviews the most prominent disagreements between Roberto Mancini and his players, which preceded the crisis of the first Saudi national football team.
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