Corriere dello Sport editor-in-chief Zazzaroni claimed that between 3 and 4 Serie A club presidents are opposed to Mancini taking charge of the Italian national team, including Internazionale president Marotta.

Zazzaroni wrote: "Roberto Mancini must have felt in recent days the same sentiment as Paolo Villaggio in his classic performance: 'I vaguely sense that I'm not very likeable'. Because in this sweltering World Cup summer dominated by Trump and Infantino, while others are playing, and even Bosnia and Herzegovina and Cape Verde have qualified, Italy is operating with Machiavellian tactics: conspiracy, network-building, ultimately to reassert its small power".

"The current opportunity is that the new FA president Malagò chose Mancini to take over the national team, a decision that encountered open or covert opposition from 3 or 4 influential club presidents, for reasons unrelated to rationality. The club presidents seem to believe that the biggest problem for Italian football is not systemic difficulties, but the choice of Gattuso's successor. The most active and respected leader among them is Marotta, who publicly stated he didn't care at all, but privately, it's a different story with his colleagues. The presidents are setting vetoes and threatening to build barriers against this Genoese man, as if he were Ulivieri, who dealt with an 18-year-old Mancini and with whom it was difficult to get along, or Figo, who later witnessed this coach's style".

"The number of people backing the coup shouldn't be large, because I'm convinced that the 12 foreign-owned clubs have more important things to consider and don't care about the future of the national team. They've been buying foreign players, neglecting local players instead. Can you imagine Saputo, Friedkin, Commisso's son, Kraus, Hartono, Sukku and others sitting down to discuss who should coach the Italian national team? Certainly not me".

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