Former AC Milan and Italy coach Arrigo Sacchi has slammed the requirements for a UEFA coaching licence.

Sacchi blasted Italy's demands for entry to taking the UEFA badges at the nation's training centre.

He said, "This is a ridiculous situation, as well as unfair. I don't understand: but to be a good jockey I must have been a horse? What is the criterion? Will I have worked honoured Italian football or not? Yet I have never played beyond the Serie D. In this system I feel the unpleasant stench of consortia and clientelism, which are typically Italian things.

"To solve the problem there is only one way: to liberalise. Ancelotti's son has not been admitted to Coverciano, he has never played in A or even in B, but it has been several years since he has been his father's second and it seems to me that he has contributed a lot to the successes of Real Madrid.

"To get the Uefa Pro license he had to go to Scotland. Does this sound normal? But where do we believe we will go if we continue to put up barriers? There are the examples of myself, Zaccheroni, Zeman, Mourinho, Eriksson, Klopp: I do not know that they have been high-level players, yet they are great coaches."