Roberto Mancini
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"Roberto Mancini" is an Italians/Italian Association football/football manager and former player, currently in charge as head coach of Inter Milan. As a player Mancini was best known for his time at U.C. Sampdoria/Sampdoria, where he played more than 550 matches, and helped them win the Serie A league title, four Coppa Italia/Coppe Italia and the European Cup Winners' Cup, whilst being capped 36 times by Italy national football team/Italy. In 1997, after 15 years at Sampdoria, Mancini left the club to join S.S. Lazio/Lazio where he won a further List of Italian football champions/Scudetto, Cup Winners' Cup and two more Coppe Italia.

As a player, he gained a penchant for becoming a future manager and would often give team talks at half-time and ultimately became an assistant to Sven-Göran Eriksson at Lazio near the end of his playing career.

Mancini's first manager role was at a cash stricken ACF Fiorentina/Fiorentina at only 35 years old and managed to win a Coppa Italia, but left with Fiorentina facing bankruptcy. Months later, he took over as manager at S.S. Lazio/Lazio, where again he inherited financial constraints and was forced to lose a number of key players. With limited resources during his two season tenure, he managed to guide the club to another Coppa Italia.

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Had our strikers looked for each other more we could have been more dangerous.

Let's not turn this into a drama.

I don't believe all this talk. Rangers are a solid team.

We will have a good chance against Juventus, as always, ... We will go to Turin to win. There is no doubt it will be a fantastic match.

It would be nice just to have that cushion so we live a little more calmly.

If they weren't getting many passes from the midfield they should have tried to help out and recover the ball themselves.

This is only the sixth game of the campaign and there are still 32 games left to play.

Anderlecht are a good team but Inter had a great game and did not permit Anderlecht to express their potential.

In the second half, scoring so quickly again put us at ease. We just had to control the game from then on.