Panucci: Albania is a complex country, leading this national one was half suicide

Christian Panucci has regretted agreeing to become a coach of the Albanian National. Italian failed badly with the Red and Black team recording negative results, which had also brought division. It has already been a very long time since Panucci's split with Albania, and only now has the renowned Italian football player talked about the issue, Express reports.

Speaking to Italian media, Panucci has said accepting the offer from Tirana in 2017 was some sort of “suicide” for his career, since it was known that Albania was unable to make another success after participating in “2016”.

When I arrived, the team was fourth in the World Qualification Group Russia 2018, we finally finished in third. Albania is a very complex country. If there was a difficult bench in Europe after 2016, it was Albania's. He came from the first-time European, agreeing to take this task, was half a suicide because it would be difficult to qualify”, Panucci declared.

He has also retorted Armand Duka, who long ago said Panucci was not a great coach for Albania. It was a fantastic experience, I had an extraordinary relationship with boys. The president of the Albanian Federation issued ugly statements against me, but when I was there he acted as president and did not intervene in anything. He let me work”, Panucci said.