In the national team only players up to 23 years old. This is the proposal that comes from Washington, on the sidelines of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of Niaf, the National Italian American Foundation, from Aurelio De Laurentiis.
«Europe must change – his words in an interview with Class CNBC – The football leaders don’t want it because they are afraid of losing their seats in which they are comfortably seated but both the rules of the game and the formats of the championships should be changed. We play too much, in the end the players will no longer be able to play 50, 60 or 70 games a year. They didn’t understand that for the national teams they should put a “cap”: after the age of 23 you can no longer go to the national team, because you have to discover the new ones. If you play 37, 35, 34 and 30 year olds and they get injured, you’re kicking the local leagues in the shins. There is no respect for these championships and then there is not sufficient payment of the loan of a player who takes his salary from us 12 months a year. This also needs to be regulated, they give us a chip but we would like a chip, a chop and a chap.” De Laurentiis then reveals that before Napoli he had thought about investing in US football: «I wanted to create three teams, one in Las Vegas, one in Detroit and one in Philadelphia. But I saw that the real competition, like the European or South American one, existed in a secondary series while in the first series no one was relegated, you had to lend your players to others and to enter you needed a fee of around 300 million dollars. All those who go to play in America then find a championship that doesn’t satisfy them and return home.”