7 settembre 2016

Fabio Mancini, Nerazzurro top model: ‘Inter, less social networks and more work. With Armani…’

I follow FC Internazionale since I was very young and I’ve loved these colours forever, since when my myth Luis Nazario Da Lima, Ronaldo played!”. From the catwalks of Milano, Londra, New York e Parigi to the catwalk of the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, where Joao Mario greeted his new fans and FC Internazionale couldn’t get more than a draw against US Palermo. Guest of the Nerazzurri directors that invited him last Sunday, Fabio Mancini, internationally considered as one of the most successful Italian models and protagonist of some Armani campaigns, had the chance to watch his favourite team from the San Siro grandstand: “In this second match of the season, the first home match, I saw a team a little behind physically but it’s improving. Despite a loss and a draw in these two match days, I’m confident to the future games”, the model, born in Germany from an Indian-origin mother and an Italian father, says in an exclusive interview with Il Solito Calcio.

After Mancini makes clear (laughing) that he is not related to the namesake former Inter coach, he trusts that Frank de Boer can be the right man to lead the team: “The Dutch coach arrived in a moment when the squad was basically already been built for a new season with Mancini, so now he has a completely new team in his hands. I’m sure that he will be able to do well, he only needs time, but the medias and the supporters here don’t give it”. Regarding Roberto Mancini, his farewell is still recent and not a few controversies accompanied the event: “I think that we mustn’t forget what Mancini did in the last years! After years of light off, he brought Inter to the national success giving then the base of players who were present until the unforgettable 2010. I think that last year he led the team well, though he was often criticized because of his choices as usual, but at the end he gave again Europe to Inter and that was what mattered. The problem is that in Italy there’s a lot of pressure and we often don’t understand a thing: it’s not easy being the coach of a team like Inter and, unfortunately, we all are competent trainers on the stands and in front of the television, without giving anyone the material time to err and grow!”.

But what does Mancini expect from Inter in the Serie A and in the Europa League this year? “The only thing i think about is the fact that a team will be created - he answers -. I’m not interested in winning, i’m interested in the fact that the team become a real group...as it once was. The group matters a lot, i played football and i know how the unity of the players is important, also and especially out of the pitch! If only someone of them thought to publish less stupid things on the social networks and to train, as the one and only Javier Zanetti did, maybe we would be competitive since years”. And Mancini, that has got hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook and on Instagram, knows a lot about this very topical issue: “Nowadays social networks are very important. Currently it’s the most fast and immediate mean of communication, by which it’s possible to send a message in the shortest possible time from one part of the world to another! I believe that social networks, along with Internet, are the discovery of twenty-first century and by now the most widespread communication route, but they should be used in the best way to self-promote and not to self-destroy, as a lot of people do. Like many professionals in my sector or in the sector of football, I often use them to externalize a thought, good or bad, and we have to accept even the criticism if it’s constructive”. Did he maybe want to send a messagge to a certain Inter’s captain?

Returning to talk about football, Mancini, as well as most of FC Inter fans, expects much from the new arrivals: “As i could see in this beginning of the season, I believe that Ever Banega brought again that quality that lacked in the middle of the field. I also believe that with the arrival of Joao Mario and Gabigol, the team will get up again immediately. Perisic is still my favourite Inter player along with Joao Miranda because they leave the soul on the field and they can decide the games”. But as a fashion and style expert, what will he think about the new Home shirt for this season? “I don’t like very much that yellow behind the shirts and the socks…i prefer the more classic blue and black with some tints of white, which is always stylish. For the rest it’s the usual shirt”. About the look, at present the Nerazzurro team wears Brooks Brothers, but as Inter fan Mancini could maybe try to mediate between the club and Giorgio Armani... It would be very interesting, it’s not impossible. We must not forget that Mister Armani is already the president of the Olimpia Milano since years and he is a great lover of sport, as indeed you could see even at the last Olympic games, and the only partner for the clothes of the Italian national team”. Who knows that a new Mancini could join FC Inter e above all who knows what the fans could think about it...

Luca Iannone

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