ROMA (ITALPRESS) – After Leonardo Spinazzola is the most ‘elder of the group, yet he is only 32 years old. Matteo Politano is in the heart of the football season and, after winning two badges with Naples, it is time to consecrate with the national team. The World Championship is a dream that Tuesday evening in Bosnia and Herzegovina (at 20.45, directed on Rai 1, the French Turpin will arbitrate) could become reality: “It’s been a couple of months that our only thought is to go to the World Championship – says Politano in the interview released to Vivo Azzurro TV – we deserve it, but we must demonstrate it in the field. We all know what we’re playing. For me and for someone no longer young will probably be the last opportunity, we keep exploiting it.” Ten million Italians have made the kick on Thursday in front of the TV in the match against Northern Ireland, there is to believe that for the final they will be even more: “To the Italians I ask to stay close, they must know that we will give the most to go to this World Championship”, assures the attacker of Naples.
Founded in the eleven holders from the Ct Gattuso, with Northern Ireland played an excellent race. It is no coincidence that the goal of Tonali’s advantage was born from a cross: “It was essential to get rid of this weight we had during the game, especially in the first half we saw some monsters. As soon as we managed to make the goal of 1.0 we unlocked. We are happy to have reached this first milestone. We are focused and now we are fortunately a few days to recover the forces and to prepare ourselves for this other battle”, adds the former Sassuolo and Inter, raised in the youth of Rome. In Zenica Italy will find rigid temperatures but also a very hot stadium, ready to push the hosts from the first to the last minute: “We must start strong – warns the blue outside – and not let us condition neither from opponents nor from the climate. We’re used to playing with pressure.”.
The compactness of the group is one of the secrets of this National: “Our strength is always helping us, in any circumstances. Also in the last game I think it has been seen that we all go on the same side“. With Gattuso the feeling was already taken in the times of Naples, a relationship based on mutual esteem and complicity: “I found it even more loaded than Naples. The mister is one who cares a lot about the group, doesn’t want selfishness. He’s a great motivator and always asks for the most, both in the game and in the workout”, says Politano.
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