Yesterday too, therapies and differentiated work for the Inter midfielder. Spalletti says he is moderately calm, Gravina “Worried a little, but not too much” and Buffon evokes Gattuso’s recovery in 2006
FLORENCE – Luciano Spalletti she would only give up on him if she saw him on crutches and raising the white flag. The fact is that three days before leaving for Germany Nicolò Barellathe absolute leader of this Italy team, continues not to train with his teammates: even yesterday, at the restart in Coverciano after a day and a half of rest, the midfielder, a key player for Inter and the national team, carried out treatments, therapies and differentiated work for his fatigue in his right rectus femoris which stopped him on the eve of Tuesday’s friendly match in Bologna with Turkey.
The concerns of Gravina and Buffon
The coach appears moderately calm (this is how he defines himself to those who ask him about Barella) but due to the player’s importance and with the European Championship now upon us, the situation must be monitored carefully. He admits it Gabriele Gravina, while avoiding any alarmism for now. «Barella worries us a little but not excessively. Let’s say we await it with great anxiety» the words of the federal president yesterday in Parma at the Serie A Festival. Dispensing pills of optimism, on the same stage, the head of the Italian delegation Gigi Buffon: «Talking with Spalletti and with the boys I gave the example of Gattuso to the 2006 World Cup: they wanted to send him home at all costs, he replied “Don’t kick me out”. He missed the first match but from the second, after the expulsion of de RossiRino entered and was the absolute protagonist». Mashed potato Marco Verrattiin the last European Championship won by Italy in 2021, he remained out in the first matches and then provided a decisive contribution to the conquest of the continental title: for the record, Barella, one of the 9 European champions, was also in that Italian team confirmed in the current group assembled for the competition which will start on June 14th in Germany.
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