#INSERT type:image caption:Fabio Cannavaro has said he wants to return to Italy and win the World Cup as a coach. END#
Fabio Cannavaro has said he does not want to use his role as coach of Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande "as a springboard, as if it's just any old job."
Cannavaro, who succeeds Marcello Lippi in the post, told Gazzetta dello Sport, in quotes reported by CalcioMercato.com, that he wants to start learning the language as he prepares for his new challenge.
The World Cup-winning former Italy captain faces a potential 10-month jail term in his home country after he, his partner and his brother Paolo were sentenced for breaking the seals on a villa seized by the authorities as part of a fraud investigation.
He said: "We're going to appeal. All I can say is that, at the time, my family and I were in Dubai while Paolo was in a training camp with Napoli. I'm serene, and convinced that things will work out over time."
Looking ahead to his job at Guangzhou, he explained: "I've hardly had the time to take in where I am and what I am doing.
"I hope to bring my family out here next year, and I want to start speaking Chinese. I don't want to use this job as a springboard, as if it's just any old job. This is why I'm so enthusiastic about it.
"And to those people who write that I'm earning huge sums of money, my answer is that I'm here to develop and gain experience. Then I will come back and win another World Cup [as a coach]."
In the meantime, Cannavaro said he was pleased to be part of another footballing culture and voiced disappointment at the current state of the Italian game.
"[Being here] only strengthens my conviction that it's best to keep away, in a footballing context," he added. "How painful it is to see the state my Parma are in.
"In the 1990s, they were the pride of Italy on a European stage with great champions. Now they are on the brink of bankruptcy, and yet they are still there trying to blame somebody else.
"Our football is sliding. It's sliding even further behind, and nobody's doing anything to lift it up again."