I'm hoping that he means that Italian football is a chess match = it's dull.
Spanish is less of a chess match, more about passion and such = it's more exciting
English football is a lot of kick and rush, pace and power, high tempo and goal, goal, goal = "The best League in the World" TM
That's...
Disappointing lack of MILF action.
I suppose we have to put his talk of English football lacking tactical nous in the context that he played under Sami Hyypia.