The fever is growing for Italy-Spain at the European Football Championships. And athletes, even those with hearts split in half, come out to “cheer” their team. Despite a narrative that mistakes his reserve for coldness, the wildest blue is Jannik Sinner. The world number 1 in tennis, playing on the Halle grass in Germany, puts his racket aside and comes out ahead of the Latin derby scheduled for tomorrow in Gelsenkirchen for the European Championship.
“I love football, I played it as a child, and I won’t miss a national team match at the European Championships – explains the tennis player from Sesta Val Pusteria – but I will watch them alone, because I care too much, and in these cases I absolutely need my space”. Friend-rival Carlos Alcaraz went even further: he asked to change the time of his match at Queen’s to be able to follow the match. And so Sinner, when they ask him if in the event of an Italian victory, he will send a message to his friend, first denies it but then – laughing – does not exclude it: “No, I would never do it…
Perhaps”.
“Italy has a very young team and I had the honor of attending some training sessions in Miami. We hope we can do well. In any case it will be exciting”, concludes Sinner. Spain will also have an exceptional Italian fan. Alice Campello is the wife of the captain of the “roja” Alvaro Morata. In recent days she has posted various photos with the Spanish national team shirt and one dedicated to the Atletico Madrid striker: “Captain, we love you madly”, wrote the influencer also referring to the couple’s two children. A dedication that moved the footballer live on TV.
Particular derby for Carlos Sainz, who will race tomorrow with Ferrari, symbol of Italianness in the world, in the Spanish GP: he supports Real Madrid, his passion for football is well known, it is useless to ask who he will line up for on the eve of the first matches free.
“My heart is red…”, he likes to repeat when asked the question. More difficult for Sergio Scariola, a very Italian basketball coach who linked his name to the successes of the Iberian national team under the basket.
Italy-Spain has sparked the imagination of many. One of the most particular interventions is that of the actor Antonio De Matteo, the prison officer Lino from Mare Fuori. “Dear friends and compatriots but above all amigos en Espana, I know that the next match that Italy plays against you will be against you Spaniards – said the actor from Campania alternating Italian and Spanish in a video that has gone viral – I’m sorry to say it but I really think that we will win this time. Yes, Yes.”
The match between the blues and the red furies is obviously played to win but – confess the many fans of the two teams – if you ever lose, better with them than with others.
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