Marcello Lippi
Marcello Lippi
Marcello Lippi, Commendatore OMRIis an Italian World Cup-winning former professional football manager and player. He served as Italian national team head coach from 16 July 2004 to 12 July 2006 and led Italy to win the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He was re-appointed as Italian national team head coach in the summer of 2008 and was succeeded by Cesare Prandelli after the disappointing performance in the 2010 FIFA World Cup...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth12 April 1948
consider match mistake simply
It would be a mistake to consider this match simply a formality,
Better now than at the end of the season.
asking hide press room
You are a d***head. You can't film me without asking first, ... If you like, we can go into the press room and you can film all you want, but you can't hide away like that.
five scotland
We know this Scotland are very, very different from the Scotland of five years ago,
start team
From here on it's serious, no more expanded rosters. I have to start working on the team for the World Cup.
anybody anyone error less personal serious team thinks
If anyone thinks too much about personal things and less about the team that would be the most serious error anybody could commit.
asked asking convince decision point respect
I have called Maldini to try and convince him to return, but he has asked me to respect his decision to retire. From our point of view, we won't be asking him again.
final last phase
No one did better in the final phase of last season.
luckily start
Luckily we were able to win. It's so important to start off well.
three tonight
Tonight we showed we can play with three strikers.
approaches several using
There are several approaches to anything, but I wouldn't be able to do it in his way, using all that technology, computers, e-mail.
finish point sight since within
It's true, we can say we are within sight of the finish line, since we only need one point to qualify,
against champions game great opportunity organize presented reasons team terms therefore tradition
For bureaucratic reasons we weren't able to organize a game against the world champions and therefore we were presented the opportunity to play against Germany, which is a team with great tradition and big ambitions in terms of the World Cup.
needed
They were the ones that really needed to find the back of the net.