by Enrico Currò
BOLOGNA (ITALPRESS) – “Luca is here with us. Always.” Radio 1 Rai Roberto Mancini does not hide the emotion. In the aftermath of the Nations League match with Turkey the ct will receive in Rimini the Premio Vialli, titled to the champion who died in January 2023, his great friend of a life, teammate at the Sampdoria of the Sampdoria of the Sampdoria of the Sampdoria of the Sampdoria of the Sampdoria of the Sampdoria and in National and then head of blue delegation to the European won in 2021. Mancini abandons himself to an emotional memory. And he answered without any word to the question on which advice Vialli would give him when he in 2023 resigned as technical commissioner: “He would have told me not to go. And today he’d be here with the National Team. We were like brothers and a brother you always talk to a brother, you definitely ask for advice, especially when the person is special like Luke”.
In the same hours when Mancini will be in Rimini, in Rome it will be decided if the Figc of Giovanni Malagò must be commissioned. The ct does not hide its optimism on the continuation of the Malagò Presidency: “I am sorry that there is this situation at such a difficult time for the National Team. It would have been better to have a little more tranquility, but I’m sure things will be fine.”.
Meanwhile the results and the game of Italy begin to be encouraging, even in perspective of the European 2028 and the World 2030, although Mancini invites to focus on the most immediate horizon: “We must also look at these games, because they are important. Beyond entering the final stage of the Nations League, they are important for the ranking, to grow. They are difficult games, which especially young players do well.”.
The research of the new Chiellini and Bonucci, that is, of the new defenders at the height of the Italian school but also of the new leaders of the group, according to the technical commissioner proceeds in the best way: “The players a little more experienced, who made Europeans and other important matches, there are. Surely they will be very useful with the younger ones.” As for the specific defensive sector, the alarm seems to be back: “There are other defenders, who could not come this time by accident, and who could be very useful in the future, like Dimarco and Leoni.”.
The name of the not yet twenty-year-old Leoni, central Liverpool, braked last season by a serious injury to the left knee and special observation of Inter and Juventus, recalls two issues.
The first is on the necessary improvements of the team, however later than expected: “We have to improve on everything, because we have really done too few games. It takes more time to improve in all aspects, tactical, technical, team. But we have already taken a very big step forward.”.
The second question concerns the ever more frequent choice of Italian talents to go to play abroad, if they do not find room in the clubs of the Serie A: a trend that the ct approves and which finds the most concrete example in the story of Doumbia, midfielder approached to Sporting Lisbon not for economic reasons but for the technical guarantees offered by the management of the Portuguese team, who has bet on him. For the National is a good thing, even if the risk is that, if the trend continues, you will impoverish the A series: “The Italian championship has been impoverished for a while. For us it is important that our young people go abroad and play even more tiring and difficult championships, such as the Premier League, and above all that they play, it is important for children. Doumbia went to a great team like Sporting Lisbon, which does the cups.”.
The one with Turkey will be the showcase for some talents of the new generations. Doumbia’s graft is in midfield, with Romano, in the trio completed by the indent of Barella. In the trio of attack, with Scamacca centrivanti and Maldini favored on Cambiaghi for the role of external left, Mancini should launch from the beginning Vergara, which the ct considers a right wing with remarkable potential, flowed in the 1-1 of Paris. On the bench, Samuel Inacio dreams of the entry into the film.
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