Napoli coach Carlo Ancelotti feels Serie A is now moving in the right direction.

Ancelotti returned to Italian football this summer after close to a decade away.

“There's a good quality of play in the league," Ancelotti told Corriere della Sera.

“The national team is blooding interesting young people, and there's a new President of the FIGC [Gabriele Gravina] with clear ideas.

“Italian football is destined to grow, and certainly if there was an incentive to improve stadiums and the culture inside…

“A few steps have been taken, and in Bergamo people understood. There are two ways to convince people: persuasion and force.

“I'm for persuasion, a horse jumps the fence with both the carrot and the stick. The problem comes afterward, if you happen to walk behind it…

“I've always been around calm people: my father, [Nils] Liedholm, and my character was born from that.

“I can't be an authoritarian if it's not in my nature, I need to be credible."