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Baggio: Lippi was jealous
Saturday 29 March, 2008

Roberto Baggio has spoken out on Marcello Lippi’s “envy” and his interest in becoming Inter’s youth Coach.

The Divine Ponytail gave an extensive interview to the Gazzetta dello Sport today and looked back over some of the difficult times in his career.

Most notably the split with Lippi, who he clashed with during their brief spell together at the Nerazzurri.

“The people loved me and this meant I took the spotlight off some other people. This created difficulties in my rapport with some figures, Lippi more than others.”

Baggio attended Inter’s centenary celebrations earlier this month and took the opportunity to discuss opening a new chapter of his career with President Massimo Moratti.

“Moratti is the right person for my project helping out youngsters. We talked about it. When he is convinced it is time to go, then I am ready.”

He also commented on the changes in the sport all over the world since he retired.

“It is all much faster and more difficult now. In the 1990s it was more than the 80s, now even more than the 90s,” said the former European and World Player of the Year.

“It is the evolution of the spot and we have to follow it. However, one cannot criticise a player for trying a backheel during a game. Are we crazy?

“In South America more than Europe they are much closer to the authentic spirit of football. This is why I adore Leo Messi.”

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Baggio is annoying. All anyone can ever do is be jealous of his wonderful self, because he can never be wrong about anything.

I see that he's chosen Inter out of all the clubs he played for to start a coaching career. Inter is not exactly famous for its youth, so I wonder how that will turn out.
 

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He chose Inter just because they have big money and influence now,
to achieve with little or no work, maximum results.
I respect Baggio as a player v.much, actually more than Totti and DP put together,
but as a man...
 
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Has anyone even bothered reading the entire article?

Baggio was talking about his disagreements with Lippi when both of them were at Inter,something that im sure didnt develop during their stay at Inter.Lippi exiting Baggio to make make room for Del Piero at Juventus sowed the seeds for that issue.

And anyway..He isnt saying that Lippi is jealous of him because Baggio's interested in becoming the youth coach at Inter..He was talking about the time when both of them were at inter.
 
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    salman said:
    And anyway..He isnt saying that Lippi is jealous of him because Baggio's interested in becoming the youth coach at Inter..He was talking about the time when both of them were at inter.
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    That still doesn't explain what Lippi was supposed to be jealous of.
     
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    salman said:
    Has anyone even bothered reading the entire article?

    Baggio was talking about his disagreements with Lippi when both of them were at Inter,something that im sure didnt develop during their stay at Inter.Lippi exiting Baggio to make make room for Del Piero at Juventus sowed the seeds for that issue.
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    That and the fact that he threw him away from his favorite club:melayyanandmessi:
     
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    Martin said:
    That still doesn't explain what Lippi was supposed to be jealous of.
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    It doesnt,but the time Del Piero is talking about was 1998/99.I dont think Lippi was jealous of him,but even at that point in time,Baggio had a bigger reputation than Lippi IMO.Yes,we're talking about a coach that reached 3 consecutive CL finals,but on the other hand you have one of the greatest players Italy ever produced.

    Also,i remember reading somewhere that one of the reasons why Lippi didnt play Baggio that often at Inter was because he had refused to point out which Inter players had expressed negative opinions about Lippi.

    What needs to be taken into consideration here is that Baggio was coming from an incredible season at Bologna,and a promising showing at France 1998 where he was unlucky to be second fiddle to the underperforming Del Piero.His career had just been rescued after 2 poor seasons at Milan,and he had every right to be ticked off after he was thrown back into limbo by Lippi.Their time together at Juventus only added to it.

    I dont think Lippi was jealous of Baggio,but im sure they had issues that didnt have a lot to do with Baggio's football skills.Its only natural for a person to react this way.Its stupid yes,but expected.
     
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    salman said:
    It doesnt,but the time Del Piero is talking about was 1998/99.I dont think Lippi was jealous of him,but even at that point in time,Baggio had a bigger reputation than Lippi IMO.Yes,we're talking about a coach that reached 3 consecutive CL finals,but on the other hand you have one of the greatest players Italy ever produced.

    Also,i remember reading somewhere that one of the reasons why Lippi didnt play Baggio that often at Inter was because he had refused to point out which Inter players had expressed negative opinions about Lippi.

    What needs to be taken into consideration here is that Baggio was coming from an incredible season at Bologna,and a promising showing at France 1998 where he was unlucky to be second fiddle to the underperforming Del Piero.His career had just been rescued after 2 poor seasons at Milan,and he had every right to be ticked off after he thrown back into limbo by Lippi.Their time together at Juventus only added to it.

    I dont think Lippi was jealous of Baggio,but im sure they had issues that didnt have a lot to do with Baggio's football skills.Its only natural for a person to react this way.Its stupid yes,but expected.
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    Personally I find it a strange if not weak argument. What is there for a coach to be jealous of a player of? That he had the spotlight? Does that mean Lippi was also jealous of Zidane when he had the spotlight? Lippi is not a PR craving character to begin with, so I just don't see how this makes any sense.

    Power struggles between them? Very possibly. But a coach has complete power over all his players anyway, so that's nothing out of the ordinary.

    It's obvious that Lippi botched the Inter job. The environment was apparently much too chaotic for his methodic ways. I don't think that fact has much to do with Baggio either, other than he may have suffered the consequence of Lippi's attempt to enforce discipline, but then he wouldn't have been the only one. So what is he trying to say, that he deserved to be treated different from all the others because he was so magnificent?

    Baggio's club hopping inevitably has much to do with his lack of ability to work in a given environment, so he kept looking for a change.
     
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    Ive just said that i dont think Lippi was jealous of Baggio.All im saying is i dont see how this outburst was unexpected.Does anyone really expect Baggio to say positive things about Lippi after their not so friendly past?I for one dont.

    Ofcourse the coach has all the power over a team.But i think Baggio's just using the wrong words to come out with his dislike for Lippi.He needed an excuse to have a go at Lippi(A go that i think is understandable btw),and he decided to come up with a pretty silly one.
     
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