FIRENZE (ITALPRESS) – The summoned of the Under-21 “they are wonderful, wonderful boys. It’s a pleasure to be with them, you see that they want to grow. They are well together, laughing, joking, they are positive, but at the same time they are very professional because they do the right things and for a coach to be always in the midst of these guys is a divine gift.” It’s a relaxed Silvio Baldini, but also load and confident, what approaches the first of two challenges that could be decisive for his Under on the path of qualifying for Europe 2027, against Macedonia first and Sweden then.
The technician seems to have received important answers in the first days of work in the retreat of Tirrenia, although a few hours from the race tomorrow that will be disputed at the Computer Gross Arena in Empoli, warns: “There are no discounted matches. Macedonia is a team that tactically presents itself with the 4-4-2, forward a tip and a half tip, have two outsiders trying to attack the depth on long launches. We know this is the kind of game they want to develop.”.
“It is a team that has its values, but it will also depend on how we will face them. If we play focused, with the right desire to show that we have good players, who can ambition the National Major as it happened with Pisilli and Palestra, I think we can make a good result and a good match”, explains Baldini that tomorrow in Empoli will live special emotions, returning to a square where he trained for 5 years between historical promotions in Serie A and saves that are still remembered as miraculous.
“I return to a place that allowed me to realize the dream of being promoted in Serie A, to play with Empoli against the big teams. It’s normal that tomorrow, as I approach the stadium, my mind will come back on that time and it’s nice to get excited thinking about what was your past.” Just from the audience that will be present tomorrow at Castellani, Baldini expects a festive climate. “I wish for the team because we are Italy, tomorrow we have to do all the fans before the Under-21, then the National Major later – said the blue technician -. Empoli is genuine people who like football and give a hand to the team, tomorrow will surely be very warm and will help us play the game enthusiastically.”.
Baldini took advantage of the eve of the race against Macedonia also to clarify the reasons for a convocation reached only yesterday. “Kayode was summoned last September, but did not have physical fitness because in Italy the parameters are much more severe than in England. There he could play, not from us, otherwise Kayode would always be with us. He arrived late because last Monday he went to Rome, he underwent some visits for the suit he obtained yesterday. I don’t understand why we shouldn’t have called him when he has already been a champion of Europe with the Under 19′′.
Who against Macedonia tomorrow should be owner is Davide Bartesaghi, one of the most beautiful surprises of Milan this season. “It’s an incredible sense of responsibility to wear a club shirt like Milan because its history speaks alone – Bartesaghi stressed. To myster Allegri and his staff I owe everything because since the first day I had their trust, as well as that of the comrades, and this I think is a very important thing.”.
The objective of Bartesaghi and the compañeros of Under 21, besides qualifying for the European category, is also to follow the footsteps of Pisilli and Palestra, called by the ct Rino Gattuso in National A. “Obviously the dream of the National Major is there and there will always be because I believe that even the Under 21 is a kind of trampoline for a tomorrow pointing to the National Major” explained the class 2005 of Erba that then talking about the role in which it is better, he concludes: “At the beginning of my journey I started by doing the tertine and then doing the fifth, now I’m much better in that position because I’m working in that field, but it happened sometimes even in the past, in Under 23, but also this year in the first team, to try to do the third defense thing I still like. In the end, being ductile, I think it’s important today, but regardless of the role I always try to give the most to both the National and the club.”.
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