No point being captain without a team says Salvini - update2

(ANSA) - Rome, November 26 - Silvio Berlusconi may want to be captain, but he lacks a team and a game plan, separatist anti-immigrant Northern League chief Matteo Salvini told ANSA in an interview Wednesday.
    The ex-premier on Tuesday suggested he could be "captain" with Salvini as striker after the League raked in an unexpectedly high number of vote in regional elections Sunday.
    "I have no political ambitions...but I can be the captain behind Salvini who is a goal scorer," said Berlusconi, whose leadership of his center-right Forza Italia (FI) party has come under fire from his former confidant Raffaele Fitto and other FI officials after the party's poor showing in Sunday's regional vote. "I appreciate Berlusconi's kind words," Salvini said. "But even if you have Maradona you're not going anywhere unless you have a team and a game plan". Also on Wednesday, New Center Right (NCD) leader Angelino Alfano, who is the current interior minister and whose party is a splinter from Berlusconi's now-defunct People of Freedom (PdL), jumped in to the fray by saying any team with Salvini as striker is destined to fail.
    "We want to lead the reformist center-right...but any team with Salvini as striker is a losing team," Alfano said, pointing out that Salvini's party wants to leave the euro and "return to pre-World War II borders". "Center-right voters don't want a winning League in a losing center-right," Alfano concluded.
    The League is an erstwhile government coalition partner of Berlusconi's FI in its previous incarnation, which also included Alfano's NCD.