FLORENCE (ITALPRESS) – “We are very convinced that we are dealing with a strong national team, that we have chosen a group that can have an important space in future results, so we are going straight for the road we have taken.” He is looking forward to getting back into his national team’s suit, coach Luciano Spalletti, who is spending the last few weeks without official matches with frenzy, but at the same time with great charge. The coach from Certaldo has chosen his estate “La Rimessa,” in Montaione, in the Tuscan hills above Empoli, to reinvigorate himself, devoting himself to the grounds where he produces his own wine, but above all where the ideas behind his victories were born. “We are working to try to grow a National Team that will last over time, a group that we think has an important future, and this we want to do in perfect harmony with President Gravina and the entire Federcalcio (Italian Football Federation),” Spalletti added. “We are going to face the next games with total confidence even if the way I am, too much time passes between games. I thought that coaching the national team would be easier, because I was left with spaces and gaps that I could manage, and instead I didn’t, because if you lose the last game played you are left with those results for a long time and every day they beat you like a hammer in the forehead and until you play again you are not happy.” On the horizon for the Azzurri is the Nations League doubleheader against Germany in less than a month. “It has a special charm, this anticipation loads me with different emotions and I often get tense because I can’t wait to play it,” explained Spalletti, who had Azzurri head coach Gigi Buffon by his side. “I didn’t know him and hanging out with him I was able to appreciate the quality of his person. He and I will forever remain friends beyond what the results will be,” admitted the coach, who revealed, “In what changed after the European Championship there is a lot of his of his. He was so true and pure in giving me news that I treasured it and tried to put it into practice, although the difference then is made by the players.” Returning to the match with Germany, “we want to do well because the matches we go to are so rare that they have a huge force on what is the growth of the group if done correctly.” After all, after the European Championship, “we started from that great competition played in France and then from there it was easier to make the players believe that they have that level, that they can play against any opponent.” The coach has not had much contact with the “azzurrabili” in recent weeks, “but now I will, I want to talk to them more than once to hear how they are.” He wishes Moise Kean good luck (“I haven’t heard from him but we are all waiting for him to be able to start training again, it looks like it can happen as soon as possible”) but in any case the moment of the Azzurri strikers makes him smile. “We are very happy that they are doing well this way,” he says about Kean and Retegui, “because one is a first forward from the penalty area, the other is a first forward of movement, they have different characteristics and we could also use them together. In the 3-5-2 or 3-5-1-1 you can do that, especially when dealing with opponents “who have a very low team block. Raspadori? He is perfect where he is playing now in Napoli, that is his role and it is the area of the field where he is most comfortable. He can give a lot, especially if he can carve out a bit more minutes than he has done so far,” Spalletti concluded.- photo Ipa Agency – (ITALPRESS).
