Spalletti draws the line for Italy: “We need players like Fagioli and Ricci”

Luciano Spalletti, technical commissioner of the Italian national teamspoke from the event in Naples during which he returned the historic Fiat Panda of the Scudetto won with the Italian team (read here the integral, at source LaPresse). He focused on blue-tinted issues: “There are some really strong young people who are growing and who are showing that Italy can have an important future. Those two names are on the list of pre-summits, we have already given them , and naturally we are pleased that there are new forces that can then come and give a contribution, a hand to what will be the difficulty we will still have in putting things right after we have not had a great European”.

Are Beans and Ricci your future?
“We have to go in search of those players there, because they are strong players who however are structured and who have now shown that that is their stamp, their trademark. There are younger players who have shown some good things but who still have room for improvement and through that attempt to grab that something extra, that invention that one can come up with, which one must be good at identifying and giving space to these young guys”.

Is there room for Chiesa and Politano?
“We have decided to rejuvenate the team a lot but these two here are still of an accessible age, and they too are in our thoughts. It is clear that we need to be careful, because having changed the way of playing we have relied more on the two strikers, to players who know how to do a little bit of everything on the pitch, to this willingness to also take responsibility for other roles, to not only be this behavior here, but also to be ‘I can also give you a hand in other positions on the pitch’. In this, the midfielders are the ones who are best able to develop this function, this behavior, so we will continue like this. We continue with one striker, one under striker, with the two strikers, with the low construction of the five players who form the perimeter. of the team and we are going to give continuity to what we have seen, because we have seen some new things and some very interesting things.”