TOT 0. ARS 0. Nov 14 EVE 0. MUN 0. BIR 0. AVL 0. BHA 0. LEI 0. MCI 0. CHE 0. WHU 0. REA 0. Nov 20 Nov 21 URA 0. YFM 0. CER 0. KAW 0. SAG 0. SAP 0. YFC 0. KOB 0. Nov 27 KAR 0. KAA 0. SHI 0. GAM 0. SHO 0. VOR 0. NAG 0. HIR 0. TOK 0. AVF 0. SEN 0. OIT 0. BUR 0. CRY 0. NEW 0. BRE 0. SOU 0. WAT 0. MNU 0. WOL 0. LIV 0. MNC 0. LEE 0. Nov 28 Mar 24 Mar 28 Roberto Mancini - the prodigy player who revolutionised Italy with the help of his best friend.
Mancini has enjoyed managerial success in Italy, most notably with Inter Milan where he won three league titles and two Italian Cups. Mancini also enjoyed an extremely successful playing career where in his twenty years in the professional game he represented Bologna, Sampdoria and Lazio. He actually ended his playing career in England with Leicester City.
For the Italian national team, Mancini earned 36 senior caps and 26 at under 21 level. He entered management in English football for the first time with Manchester City following the appointment after spells in Italy with Inter Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina. I followed the instinct - as I still do today - and this has brought me far. My goal was to play football and I was amazed when I realized that Bologna would have recognized an expense reimbursement - 90 thousand lire per month!
I drew the attention of the Rossoblu youth sector and after only three years - just 16 years old - I made my debut in the Primavera team. They were exciting and tough years. I saw good and promising players coming and then leaving, I was afraid it could have happened to me too.
And so I worked hard, I trained, I was careful not to get injured I had to give more, be more than the others, be ready for my chance. My first Serie A call-up happened by chance. Coach Radice - seeking a replacement for an injured first-team player and not finding Marco Macina at school - called me.
I remember the feeling of being in the same place as great champions. I had seen those players when my dad would take me to the stadium to watch the games or on television for 45 minutes that's what they used to broadcast at that time once a week on Sundays! I felt that maybe my dream could come true, I had something different from others but it was not enough, I needed to be right in the head, have determination and will. Today I understand that to become a great player you need to have "something" more than the others, as well as an immense talent and spirit of sacrifice.
Bologna was the ideal city to grow up in: there I met special people who received me and immediately cared about me. Bologna projected me into the great football: on September 13, my first time in the Serie A — I was only 16 - when Rossoblu coach Tarcisio Burgnich gave me my debut in Bologna vs Cagliari. My first goal in the Serie A came less than a month after the debut to seal the draw in the 78th minute of Como vs Bologna. It was the first of nine goals I scored in my maiden top-flight season, an important tally for a young boy.
President Paolo Mantovani was intrigued by my abilities and brought me to Sampdoria. That was insane! Bologna sporting director Paolo Borea - who had moved to Sampdoria - was crucial to convince me to follow him to Genoa. President Mantovani's great Sampdoria was about to take shape.
Only at that point I realized that I could not be anything else but a footballer, the best job in the world.
My dream was coming true, I realized it when many clubs wanted me and Mantovani chose me despite the price.
I improved and I began to understand that I could make it, I had to develop an eye for the goal and for the victory. I did not want to be a meteor: it was my chance, I could not miss it. I was aware that everything could have ended in an instant. The characteristics of the place to live also matter to a player. I immediately made a mistake on Genoa, on the occasion of an away game arriving on a bus I had only seen viaducts and outskirts. In Genoa I spent 15 years of my life and my career as a player, there I became a father of my children Filippo, Andrea and Camilla.
We made history at Sampdoria with exceptional team-mates, sporting director Paolo Borea, coach Vujadin Boskov and above all the greatest president, Paolo Mantovani. Sometimes I think that someone like Mantovani never existed.
He was a dream, a man too great to be true. He was handed a two-year deal with an automatic extension to be activated if Mancini could guide Italy to the European Championship.
Under Mancini, Italy achieved their longest competitive international winning streak. Italy lost just twice in the first 27 matches of the Mancini era, and were once again considered to be among Europe's elite teams. They quickly served notice of their intentions by easing through the group stage with three wins from three, while keeping successive clean sheets. Austria and Belgium were seen off in the knockout stages before penalties were needed to eliminate Spain in the semi-final. Spot-kicks were once again needed in the final, with goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma saving two and seeing another hit the post as England were defeat following a draw.
The final also marked Italy's 34th game without defeat. Mancini's marriage to Federica has been the subject of tabloid scrutiny, thanks in part to comments made by the Italian manager.
However, the couple remain an item, at least on paper, and have two sons and a daughter together. Both his sons Andrea and Fillipo are professional soccer players, but neither has achieved the heights their famous father did during his playing career. Roberto Mancini Profile. Roberto Mancini Twitter. Roberto Mancini Instagram. Roberto Mancini Facebook.
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