R. Mancini: the time for defensive football is over.

Italy's national team coach Roberto Mancini assured fans that the national team will no longer demonstrate their playing style that has become their trademark.

"I like attacking football, although I know we became four-time world champions playing in the Italian way.

Nevertheless, I believe that today we can show more power in attack and the time of defensive and counter-attack based football is over.

We are very happy that fans continue to passionately support our team and we will try to make them happy in June.

Football is a unifying factor - if the national team plays well and wins, the nation is happy," explained R. Mancini.