Soccer: Only 5 foreigners per club

(ANSA) - Rome, May 30 - Italy's football clubs should agree not to hire more than five foreign-born players each so that national team coaches will have more to Italians to choose from, former coach Marcello Lippi told a sports program on RAI public broadcasting radio on Monday, who led Italy to win the 2006 World Cup. Back then, said Lippi, the pool of players he could choose from made up 66% of Serie A teams. Today, that number stands at 35% and this will make things difficult for current Italy coach Antonio Conte , Lippi said.