After speaking on Radio Serie A, Pantaleo Raven he upped the ante Sports Courier. A cry of pain he defined his because he felt attacked after Italy’s flop at the European Championships. His strong statements to make his ideas and reasons understood and asserted.
Corvino and the Spring
“Mine is a cry of pain. In all the broadcasts they highlight the result of our Primavera, the eleven foreigners, as if we were the absolute evil, the origin of the failure of the National team. Are we joking? Me the infector? This demonization of Lecce is an insult to intelligence. Ours is a model that should be followed”.
Corvino and the cost problem
“Too many things are forgotten. Lecce in Serie A has three players who come from the Primavera, and three are starters. Falcone, Baschirotto, Piccoli, Gallo and Sansone are Italian. Lecce cannot afford Italians because of the excessive costs. I have to defend our work, the club, the territory. Do we want to talk about local talent? The big clubs come here and raid. The aridity of our football does not derive from Lecce’s policies, but from those of the Football Federation and the League, of the clubs. It derives from the lack of facilities, training centers and the unpreparedness of youth sector coaches. There is also a lack of will on the part of the Football Federation to impose percentages of revenues to be allocated to the training of young people”.
The virtue of Lecce
“Our virtue is to go around the world looking for players to bring to the first team. I have been in this world for 50 years, almost 700 games. Maybe I have understood something, right? Stop chasing outside culprits, with the litany of foreigners who take away the places of Italians. There are good young Italians and they win European and World Championships in their category. Leave Lecce and those who work well alone. We are the youngest team in Italy and we are sustainable: we play the whole championship with eight and a half million, also making the youth sector and the structures grow”.
