Wow, why da fak the same way as in England, this is the most retarded decision there is. A reserve team means creating a reserve league with only reserves from A teams playing, which is no different than arranging weekly friendlies between random players from random clubs.
I hope when Malago said England he really meant Germany and Spain, which is the model Italy should deploy, the best there is so far - creating a B team, who enters the lowest possible proffessional division and plays with and agains the real teams there, fighting for promotion until they reach Serie B and there the B team is not permitted to promote to Serie A regardless of their results. This is something Italy should have done a looong looong time ago and is also one of the big reasons why the country is behind both Spain and Germany, in regards of young and talanted kids, to developing those young and talanted kids and preparing them for their next and most important step - to be ready for the first team. I mean look and Serie B top scorers table - all of first 10-15 players are around or even older than 30 years, the younger one is our loanee Cerri (and he is like the 10th top goalscorer, or even worse...)
B teams who play in Serie B and C is awesome, reserve teams in a reserve league is awful, it is no different than playing with some friends in the park on a Sunday afternoon...