Under 21, Nicolato: ‘No fear of difficulties’

The blue Under 21 team resumes its journey towards the final phase of next year’s European category and does so by gathering in Tirrenia. Leading Group F, with 17 points and 3 points over Sweden, second with one more match, the azzurrini return to the field for the last three matches of the group with the aim of maintaining a record that is worth the direct pass to the tournament. .
The difficulties, according to what the selector Paolo Nicolato points out, in the press conference, however, are not lacking. “I don’t find myself working in an ideal situation, because many stopped playing almost a month ago, some others accuse physical problems, we hope that the situation will normalize soon. The will is to do the best, and this is true even if I were here with the Under 15. I come from difficulties, they don’t scare me, the more and more fun I am – the coach said – At this moment we need to identify who is better off and from there to create a game strategy. This week will be very important for us, the situation is very varied, normalized. We will hardly draw from outside this group “.
Nicolato called 26 players for the matches against Luxembourg (6 June, in Differdange, 6pm), Sweden (9 June, Helsingborg, 6pm) and the Republic of Ireland (14 June, Ascoli, 5.30pm). “In Sweden we will play against a team in full league – he underlines – we must remember that, a few months ago, we lost against a very advanced team from an athletic point of view. Ireland is also a very physical and dynamic team. difficulties that we are going to face. We are very determined and aware, we want to improve absolutely. There are few young people, this is a fact, we can open a debate on the reasons for their lack of employment “.

Source: Ansa

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