MILAN (ITALPRESS) – “We are experiencing a transition period and we have not understood what way to take. We also pay for past mistakes. The results of today date back to twenty years ago, when we reacted on our strength, on Buffon, Cannavaro, Totti. Thinking it would be eternal by grace received. Already then you had to rethink technical and tactical models, but we were scary.” For Gigi Buffon, now head of delegation and blue sports director, Italy’s ills are born there. In March, the National Team is expected from the play-offs, with the risk of being out of the World Cup for the third time in a row. That’s why we need “self-esteem, conviction. But there is more. The boys also want to be appreciated, they need affection. Of enthusiasm. They give total availability. Can I make an appeal? We love Italy. All”, the words to the “Gazzetta dello Sport” of Buffon, according to which “continue with stupid comparisons with the past only makes those of today feel inadequate. With the National Team there has always been a game at the massacre, I know it well, but we try to understand the historical moment: to whom does it benefit?”. Maximum confidence in Gattuso (“Rino is the right ct, it is the best figure you could choose”) and just “unjust criticisms” that “come above all from outside”.
“And I have played 20 years in the National Team: Italy wins only if you group. Exactly what Rino is creating. If you’re wrong, well, you’re evaluating the faults and everyone at home. But first, no, please.” In recent days we also talked about changing the calendar to give the ct a few more days to prepare the shoots. “It would help us to have those free days – Buffon confirms – but we must find the way to be stronger also than these concessions that do not arrive. Because, as Rino says, we’re strong. Period. The World is a magic to make the country live, we can’t go. We help the dream.” What about the future? “Start from below: I mean from seven to thirteen years, when there is real imprinting. From fifteen years you can always improve, but the talent is formed first, in addition to the help of mother nature that I would not spend. With Prandelli we are talking about how to set this job, but we wanted to wait for the qualifying to define everything. And if that goes wrong, did we say? Everyone go, go home, come a new one with other ideas and maybe delete the project… If you start projects like this, it takes stability. But one thing is certain: we have to go back to training skills.”.
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