Former Italy and AC Milan coach Arrigo Sacchi has left his role as technical coordinator of youth with the FIGC.
Sacchi had been in the job for four years.
"With regret a leave a job that I care greatly for, but I have a terrible adversary, that I was able to govern for 22-23 years, but that in the end is winning, and that is stress," Sacchi has told reporters today at a Press conference.
"I informed the FIGC a year ago that I would be leaving at the end of my mandate. I have not been a good father, I have neglected my daughter, and I do not want to do the same with her granddaughter who was born recently.
"And then, I am no longer a young man, my recovery is much slower.
"We worked a lot during these four years, trying to give these guys a mindset and an international dimension, increasing the number of games by 30-35 per cent.
"In a nation that does not believe in young people we have to thank the Federation for its efforts."
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