“After the first three days of work, after having trained them, these guys gave me my first football smile after the European Championship. I saw beautiful things, pace, passion, availability, being on first name terms with the ball. This is the key to putting things right”. This is the reflection of Luciano Spalletti at the end of Italy’s training camp in Coverciano, before boarding the plane that will take him and the Italian team to Paris, where tomorrow evening there will be the first match of the season against France, valid for the Nations League.
“We have a match against a high-level opponent ahead of us, but in football, through passion and willingness, you can always manage to cancel everything out – continued the national coach to the microphones of Raisport – I want to see those characteristics that are needed to compensate for those individual qualities that our opponents may have more than us. Regardless of who will start or come in, we need to have two or three alternatives ready. Is Bastoni fully recovered? He immediately gave me full availability.