“We don’t close the doors to anyone, we can’t tell someone that they can’t aim to get there. We have to absorb everything that is good in football and make it available to this team.”
At Dazn Serie A Show, the Italian coach Luciano Spalletti thus responds to a question on the return to the Italian top flight of Mario Balotelli signed by Genoa.
And on Francesco Totti, who wants to play again, he adds: “He was so imaginative in playing the ball for his teammates that perhaps this inspiration could also lead him to make the choice to go back to playing…”.
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Spalletti then talks about the beginning of his adventure as Italy coach: “I tried to consider the number of appearances and the experience of those who have already acquired a certain amount of knowledge in this type of football, choosing players capable of acting as guides to young people. The goal is to mix these two elements. We were coming from a particular championship, in which Inter, for example, had already won well in advance and the celebrations had inevitably changed the pace It’s difficult to keep your concentration high in your daily work. I experienced it too after winning the championship.”
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The coach then expressed himself on the path taken with the boys on the pitch: “It’s the right one. A reasoning was also made based on the many midfielders, because then they find the solution, they know how to play in multiple areas of the pitch. Now they are involved in total growth, precisely so as not to have to focus on the champion’s single play”. In particular, he spoke about Di Lorenzo, who went through a difficult period but who “now that he has found his quality again, it is a pleasure to see him play. He is that man who we always want to have available in the locker room”, and of Pellegrini, which “has the quality of the foot.
Having someone who takes set pieces well is fundamental, and we have often relied on him and Dimarco. Then he is a footballer who manages well this request to be, sometimes, a striker, other times a midfielder, passing through all the midfield roles. He comes to build from the defensive phase, because he knows a lot about football, and I say this by seeing him play and also knowing him in depth.”
Finally, Spalletti also commented on the enthusiasm for Napoli: “It arouses many emotions in me, both the team and the city. There are players that I have coached and am close to, and I know that they are all men of great caliber.”
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