Thus the coach of the national team Luciano Spalletti, interviewed by the Sports editorial team of the Giornale Radio Rai, a few hours before Italy-Turkey
“It’s difficult to play at your best but without risking injuries. Tonight you play hard, then when you decide you’re a bit tired you change. You can’t go with the handbrake on, otherwise you risk making a bad impression and to confuse concepts.” Thus the national coach Luciano Spallettiinterviewed by the Sports editorial team of the Radio Rai newspaper, a few hours before Italy-Turkey, the first of the two friendly preparations for the European Championships, scheduled today at 9pm at the Dall’Ara stadium in Bologna.
“There are a couple of tired players, but they are natural fatigue – Spalletti continues – and precisely because we have a margin of time we won’t risk them. One of these is Barella: he will stay out this evening so as not to face unpleasant news. Barella he trained very well, we can manage it, just need a day or two of recovery and he’ll be fine.” But how is the construction of the group going? Spalletti says he is optimistic: “It’s a beautiful group, just as we hoped to be able to create it – he underlines -. There is this compactness, this union, this friendship which is fundamental for us to be able to create a strong team. He tells us this our history, the hard core of the collective’s strength, was a basis for building on our past successes.”
