The national team Under 20 Azzurra returns to the field for the second home match of the Elite League and does so at the ‘Benito Stirpe’ stadium in Frosinone. “The boys feel a very strong sense of responsibility in carrying the national team shirt around, and I think it’s a beautiful thing – the words of the coach Bernardo Corradi collected by FIGC.it -. It’s right that the Federation makes this type of agreement because the national team is everyone’s heritage and it’s nice to take it around all of Italy.”
On the journey: “England is one of those teams that gets results, that plays an important game, so for us it’s a source of pride to play a match like this here, in a beautiful stadium and one that the boys are also proud of We would like to have some fans watching us and we hope to have a good match. We have studied England: they are a physical team, very fast we will try to be aggressive to steal the ball. Compared to them we have completely different objectives: the other national teams work according to the Under 21s, we are the only one in the Elite League who has access to the World Cup. Even if it has been postponed a few months (it will be played between September and October 2025, ed.), the task remains to prepare for the World Cup, also by experimenting with new solutions and expanding the group. Being a FIFA competition but not on FIFA, the unknown of knowing if we will have everyone is available. So the more players we know, the better.”
Players with little space on the field with their respective first teams: “Those who have appearances and the possibility of training with the first teams have a level of attention and preparation also in their approach to training and matches which is already more football-like than the big ones – explains Corradi -. On the one hand it is desirable that some clubs have started to embrace the idea of creating a second team, on the other that clubs like Frosinone focus on young people, because if we look back at the results of the national youth teams we can talk about anything except a moment of difficulty. It just takes a bit of courage and knowing that when you put a young person on the field with more enthusiasm and perhaps less experience, there can be a mistake, but no one has become good without ever having made a mistake.” .