Cesare Prandelli has ruled himself out of the running to replace Antonio Conte as Italy coach after Euro 2016, but says it is a "disgrace" that anybody else could turn the job down.
Prandelli resigned from his role as Italy boss following a disappointing showing at the 2014 World Cup and he says it would therefore be wrong for him to return to the position which will be left vacant when Conte leaves for Chelsea in the summer.
However, he cannot understand how anybody who has not yet had the opportunity to coach their country would have second thoughts about it.
"When I read about many coaches having turned the national team down, it makes me want to say that it's a disgrace," Prandelli told Gr Parlamento radio. "It's a job that you can never turn down. I've already been in charge of Italy for four years and given everything I could to the job, and so I can't offer myself again."
Prandelli, 58, has been out of work since a brief spell at Galatasaray ended in November 2014.
He told La Repubblica late last year that he has instead been working as a farmer on a piece of land he bought near Florence, where he is growing olives and "enjoying [himself] on a tractor."
But now, however, he admits he would relish a return to the game.
While he will not take the Italy job, he would prefer not to have to travel too far for his next assignment.
"I'd like to start over again in Italy," he said. "It would be easier for me from a linguistic point of view, even if my experience in Turkey was very valuable."