Jan Agafjortoft
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And the teams are all good.
Yeah, I cannot more agree with Ali than everything he said.
And that's crazy because I played against Italian teams and I played with Italian players and I saw them.
And the Italian league, the cultural, was amazing where on top of, as Ali said, you had fantastic teams.
Everybody was going there.
JΓΌrgen Klinsmann, Lothar Matthaus, all the Dutch, Rijkaard, Van Basten, Gullit, and all the French, Desailly, Zidane, Deschamps, Trezeguet, Thuram, Bogotian.
This league was insanely the best in the world.
And suddenly, after the 90s, in 2000, 2001, it dropped like crazy.
Everybody left to Spain,
Or England, like Zola, Viali, Di Matteo, for example, Italian players, but also Zidane, Deschamps going to Spain, so many others doing that.
And the drop-off was crazy that nowadays, for me, it's only the fifth league in the world or in Europe.
And it goes beyond the Ligue 1 for me.
Because in the Ligue 1, you have players, French players, that everybody in the world still wants.
I don't see, I can't name any Italian players where you say, ooh, that guy should go to Liverpool, Manchester United, City, Chelsea, or Real Madrid and Barcelona.
I don't see anybody but Donnarumma.
That says a lot about the quality.