From an insurmountable wall to a “playful” defense. This is the revolution brought home to Italy by Luciano Spalletti, in view of the European Championships which will begin for the Azzurri this evening with the match against Albania. If historically the Italian team has always been an Italian department ready not to let even a pin pass, like Buffon-Cannavaro-Nesta (and then Materazzi) at the 2006 World Cup or Donnarumma-Bonucci-Chiellini at the last European Championships, the defense is there will propose this evening has greater construction characteristics.
As La Gazzetta dello Sport points out, the central Italian pair will in fact be made up of Alessandro Bastoni and Riccardo Calafiori. The Inter centre-back is a young old man: he is 25 years old and has been with the Azzurri for four. With Inzaghi he learned to enter the maneuver, advancing the ball and creating superiority. Today he can take the ranks of leader, because next to him will be the youngest of the group. Let’s talk about the Bologna center back: 20 years old, he is a technical center back with good feet, the determination of a goalscorer, the vision of a director, the depth of the midfielder.
