Carmine Nunziatatechnical commissioner ofItaly Under 21he thus presented on the website of FIGC the match on Tuesday 15 October in Trieste against Ireland, for which he will be unavailable Fabio Miretti of Genoa: “We need to go on the pitch and try to win the match, continuing to play our football. We have a few more days to prepare for just one match and we’re happy to work on our concepts: this is the best way to approach the match.”
Palestra, on the other hand, is the new thing that is advancing.
“He has done his entire career with the youth national teams. We are talking about an interesting boy with excellent qualities.”
What is your focus right now?
“We will try to improve what we have been doing for a year, remaining convinced that the difference will be made by mentality and the desire to reach the goal. Also because we will have a good team up front, which has proven to be good along the way. Our first The objective is to qualify, then we’ll think about the European Championship.”
You could qualify as early as Friday from… home.
“We will obviously watch the match, and if good news comes we will be happy. But our minds will have to be focused only on our match: the results depend on us, and to achieve them we will have to take advantage of every single training session, also because this is a group that has important values on a technical and moral level”.
Pisilli will not be there because he has been called up to the national team by Spalletti.
“This must be a stimulus for everyone, because Spalletti is very attentive to the boys.”
What has this path left you with so far?
“We knew we were in a difficult group with strong teams. The only regret is the first match, the one in Latvia, which left a bit of a bad taste in our mouth. In the end we knew that we would get to the last match to play the qualification”.