article_snippet: The controversy led to Roberto Mancini saying that 'the Italian national team should be Italian.
article_snippet: An Italian player deserves to play for the Italian national team, while someone who wasn't born in Italy, even if the Italian national team have relatives, I don't think the Italian national team deserve to.'
article_snippet: It's nothing new for Italy: the Italian national team won the World Cup in 2006 with Argentinian Mauro Camoranesi in the side.
article_snippet: Roberto Mancini moved to Italy at the ripe old age of 23, didn't sing the national anthem, spoke in Spanish after the game when Roberto Mancini dedicated the victory in the final in Berlin to the people back in Roberto Mancini neighbourhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires – roughly 7,000 miles from Rome.
article_snippet: As if more confusion was needed, Roberto Mancini now manages in Mexico and Roberto Mancini middle name is German.
article_snippet: Italy won the World Cup in 2006 with Argentinian Mauro Camoranesi in the side .
article_snippet: Mancini, said the Italian national team should be Italian only .
article_snippet: Italy's casual approach to 'Italianness' when it comes to football stretches back nearly 100 years: midfielder Luis Monti played in a World Cup final for Argentina in 1930, and then won the 1934 tournament with Italy.
article_snippet: And this is an important point: Mancini is wrong to believe you have to be born in the country for which you play: there are circumstances which may lead to you being born in one country, but brought up in another.
article_snippet: Back to Camoranesi, who even after winning the World Cup for Italy, said he felt Argentine.