Fabio Capello led Real Madrid during two different stages. The second lasted one season, 2006-2007, and the coach does not exactly have very good memories of his time in a locker room that, many years later, he still considers very unprofessional. The Italian recalled his experiences with Ronaldo, Cassano, Roberto Carlos, Guti, Beckham, Raúl and company during the inauguration of the academic year of the University Institute of Linguistic Mediators (Limec) in Milan.
“One day Van Nistelrooy came and told me that ‘The locker room here smells of alcohol’. It was true.” According to Capello, one of those responsible was Ronaldo Nazario, whom “I decided to fire; he was someone who liked to party and encouraged the group to go out with him,” he recalls about the Brazilian, of whom he assures that ” I weighed 94 kilos that year.” Four years earlier, “in Korea, at the 2002 World Cup, I weighed 82. I told him to lose weight… he reached 92.5″Explain.
In fact, the Italian warned Milan not to sign him: “Berlusconi asked me for advice and I advised him against it, I told him that I was a party animal and that I only thought about being surrounded by women.” He was not very convincing: “He told me: ‘Okay, thank you Fabio.’ Days later, Ronaldo signed for Milan.
But he didn’t just have problems with Ronaldo. De Cassano assures that he was very unprofessional: “I ordered fries before every game, something unacceptable. I was more angry with the cook than with him. I didn’t understand it.” From his time at Real Madrid he also has a not very pleasant memory of the press that surrounds the white team: “If you go abroad you must understand where you work, communication is everything, and in Spain the radios rule and newspapers influence the public.
2023-10-17 11:15:04
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