According to Corriere dello Sport, Mauro Icardi was not everyone’s ideal choice to wear the captain’s armband in the first place. The confirmation of this came from a ‘like’ from Marcelo Brozovic on a couple of Instagram posts that reported the news of the change of the captaincy, which passed from the arm of Maurito to that of Samir Handanovic.
It is not a mystery that the midfielder and Ivan Perisic are very close to the Slovenian goalkeeper or that between them and Icardi the relations are tense. At the base of their disagreements are character issues, but they are also of a technical and tactical nature.
The Argentine does not always sacrifice himself running for the team, he thinks only of scoring and not everyone likes it. Even the group of Italians and especially the Brazilian-Portuguese contingent, do not agree with the striker as captain and it is not by chance that in the summer during a friendly in which Icardi was not used because he was injured and the captaincy ended up on Miranda’s arm, Miranda’s wife, posted on social media: “This is a true captain.”
There is the guilt of not having the characteristics of a leader and the difficulty of the most experienced players to recognize him as the groups leader, a role that Mancini had assigned to him in 2015.
There are those that are of course very close to Icardi such as Borja Valero, Lautaro Martinez and Matias Vecino. Normally these would be seen as small divisions in any group of work, not just at the football level, but clearly the removal of the captaincy has opened up a world in which this type of hypothesis seems more relevant.
