Football: Benitez blasts ‘liar’ Materazzi
Materazzi said he would never appoint Benitez as a manager.
LONDON:
Interim Chelsea manager Rafael Benitez has hit back at Marco Materazzi, calling the former Inter Milan defender ‘a liar’ after he criticised the Spaniard’s brief spell in charge of the Italian giants.
Materazzi was quoted by France Football as saying that if he had the choice, he would never appoint Benitez as a manager, that he made players feel like schoolboys and that he had tried to undo everything that had made Inter successful under predecessor Jose Mourinho.
Materazzi also said that Benitez had all the photographs at Inter’s training ground featuring Mourinho, one of his Chelsea’s predecessors who continues to be linked with a return to Stamford Bridge, removed. But Benitez had no time for Materazzi’s account on Tuesday, telling reporters: “He’s lying. Marco Materazzi is lying, just lying. Everything that he said is a lie.”
Published in The Express Tribune, January 24th, 2013.
Interim Chelsea manager Rafael Benitez has hit back at Marco Materazzi, calling the former Inter Milan defender ‘a liar’ after he criticised the Spaniard’s brief spell in charge of the Italian giants.
Materazzi was quoted by France Football as saying that if he had the choice, he would never appoint Benitez as a manager, that he made players feel like schoolboys and that he had tried to undo everything that had made Inter successful under predecessor Jose Mourinho.
Materazzi also said that Benitez had all the photographs at Inter’s training ground featuring Mourinho, one of his Chelsea’s predecessors who continues to be linked with a return to Stamford Bridge, removed. But Benitez had no time for Materazzi’s account on Tuesday, telling reporters: “He’s lying. Marco Materazzi is lying, just lying. Everything that he said is a lie.”
Published in The Express Tribune, January 24th, 2013.