Former president of the Italian Football Federation Carlo Tavechchio called his main mistake.

After the failure of the Italian team in the selection of the 2018 World Cup Carlo Tavequio resigned as president of the Italian Football Federation. And now, six months later, he admitted that his main mistake was the refusal to raise the salary of Antonio Conte as coach of the "Adyurai".

"My main mistake was that I did not want to raise the salary of Antonio Conte from 4 million euros a year to 6.5 million," Tavequchio Gazzetta dello Sport.

- These 2.5 million we would "beat" for three friendly matches, and Conte would have to coach the team and now Italy would play at the World Cup ".

The Italian team lost the first place in the group of Spain in the qualifying tournament, and then lost in the playoffs of Sweden and flew past the World Cup 2018.

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