“It’s unique, the national team,” he tells Football Presse. “And he knows what it means.”
World Cup winner. Midfield warrior. Emotional leader.
According to Breda, Gattuso is exactly what Italy need right now.
“In recent times maybe some of the true values of wearing the Azzurri shirt were fading. He’ll put the rules back in place. He’ll restore what that shirt represents.”
Breda also reflects on his own late-career spell at Parma Calcio 1913, calling it “a gift.” Sharing a dressing room with giants like Gianluigi Buffon, Fabio Cannavaro, Lilian Thuram, and Hernán Crespo gave him perspective.
“You realise even the biggest champions are just men — with doubts, with sensitivities.”
Now, after years of coaching — often parachuting into crisis jobs where “time is the enemy” — Breda has one clear ambition left:
“I’d love to work abroad. The right opportunity just hasn’t come yet.”
For a man shaped by some of Italian football’s most intense dressing rooms, that next chapter feels inevitable.