Matteo Ruggerifull-back for Atalanta and the Italian Under 21 national team, spoke thus from the Azzurrini’s retreat about the objectives of Nunziata’s team: “We must not set limits for ourselves – his words in an excerpt from the interview broadcast tonight in Sports Sunday -. The experience I had with Atalanta made me understand that anything can be done. We never expected to win the Europa League, but we did it and this must push us to believe in the goal.”
The impressions left by the match against France are good. The 2-2 gave the Azzurrini greater awareness: “We were good at interpreting the match in the best way, we are on the right path and we must continue like this. The group is very compact and has qualities, but we must not settle, it would be the biggest mistake we could make.” In this case, Nunziata would take care of bringing the attention back to the highest levels: “Both he and Gasperini always say never to be satisfied”.
Ruggeri doesn’t want to do it either: “The dream obviously is to reach the senior national team one day, but now my mind is focused on the Under 21s”, concluded the Bergamo-owned winger. After Friday’s draw against France in Empoli he will return to the pitch on Tuesday at 6.15pm in La Spezia (live on Rai 2) against Ukraine, in the second test of this November window, the first of the two available to Carmine Nunziata to prepare the group in view of Slovakia 2025.