Nicky Bandini
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1,942 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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He's got a lot to prove all over again.
Not that he's won't be remembered as a great manager 'cause he did incredible things earlier in his career.
But I I don't think we've seen it for a while.
There's so many different threads to it.
So to to to wind it back to a tiny bit before before the start of your time in there, of course, Maligor um only took over the um uh the role as the head of the Italian Football Federation this summer.
There's been this pause after the World Cup qualifying failure with
The old team all stepping down, there was this wait for this election, and uh and Malago, who's got a lot of credit in the Italian system because he's been the head of the Italian Olympic Committee for more than a decade.
He was the one who got the successful bid to have the Winter Olympics in Milana Cortina and then delivered it as well, which was my most feelings quite a positive, um, successful Winter Olympics.
People were very happy with it.
It felt like it was a nice moment for Italy.
Especially when we talk constantly in football about dilapidated stadiums and all the rest of it, the fact they put on this great winter Olympics and and it all went off well was was really um seen as a success.
So he comes in with a lot of credit and he goes out and he gets Maldini.
He's almost increased his status by losing his job at Milan.
Obviously he's got a certain status just by being who he is, of course.
Iconic Italian football player, iconic um member of an iconic family.
whose father was also a kind of uh football player, someone who's perceived already as having a very strong moral compass and firm ideas and being someone who the country could get behind.
And at Milan, because he was a director there and uh a huge part of their last title win brought in, or was certainly credited with bringing in a lot of the players who helped them win that last that last Serie A title,
um uh in twenty twenty two with players like Raphael Eo, Mike Mike Mineyan, he was credited with building that squad.
And then he left Milan about a year later, with the uh general telling of that story being basically he gave some public comments saying, We need to make a couple more signings and we'll be ready to compete to win the Champions League.
And the perception was that then basically Milan's owners said, You're too big for your boots now, we're not spending this money for you and out you go.
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