Frattesi, Spalletti’s reproaches and ping pong with El Shaarawy: “I don’t have fun with Scamacca, he only shoots shots, Pellegrini and Bastoni are the best at billiards”

ISERLOHN – We’ve all seen that video. Spalletti taken from the front, he is demonically shouting at Frattesi where to stand during the match against Albania. “Davide, Davide, come away from the traffic!”. It is inevitable that the first question a Davide Frattesi both on those screams, which no one missed in the stadium and on TV. “In the ranking of warnings received, I am out of competition,” he smiles. “But I take those reminders well, it means he has faith in me. And then from the outside he sees things better than we do on the pitch.”

Frattesi: “Spalletti’s calls? I’m out of competition.”

Tanned face, well-groomed blond hair, blue national team tracksuit and fluid dialectics. Frattesi didn’t turn around the problem until three days after the match against Spain it seems clear to everyone: “Without mincing words: Spain is ahead of us. We must bring the Italian spirit into play.” He himself explains what he means: “We must put the Italian spirit into play, which has allowed us to win for years. If we look at it from the perspective of one-on-one duels, it’s difficult. If we look at it from a spiritual perspective, we’ll win.”

Frattesi and Spain “Rodri is the strongest midfielder in the world”

Tactically it is clear what match he expects: “There will certainly be more space, but also more to defend. We will have to be good at taking advantage of the opportunities that come our way, but we will have less possession than in the match against Albania. Their strength is always possession and dribbling, even if they no longer have two as Xavi And Iniesta. Now there is Rodri, who is the strongest midfielder in the world. AND Yamalfantastic, talent and personality, he will become a football great.”

Frattesi and Inter: “I will wear Italy’s under the Nerazzurri shirt”

Starter in blue after a year after taking overInter. “I’ll put the national team under that of Inter,” he jokes. “It’s never easy to join a group that came from the final of Champions. But having played less is half an advantage. The tiring thing about a year like this is mostly the travel. The more one is on the pitch, the more condition he gets. You are tired mostly on a mental level.” The Inter block is now also one of the strengths of the national team: “Certainly the fact that we have been together for a year helps, sometimes there is no need to even talk to each other, things come automatically, like actions with Scamacca. We already know what we have to do, and what we did at Inter, like the exits, we told ourselves to do as we do at the club.”

Frattesi: “With ping pong I discovered El Shaarawy”

But it’s not just Inter in his daily life: “What did I bring from home? I brought Scamacca with me.” Yet his ties are widening: “Clearly I can’t practice many of my passions here. But we spend a lot of time in the break room, we have table football, ping pong, pinball, the group is being born there, in the evening after dinner. I discovered it while playing ping pong El Shaarawy: we didn’t talk much and now a good relationship has been created, we have some nice two-on-twos. Just don’t play Scamacca, who only throws broadsides. Even if I win the comparisons. Pilgrims And Sticks instead they are the best at billiards.”

“Scamacca? We have the center forward and he will score”

Scamacca is also the player that Frattesi decides to defend. “You’re saying he doesn’t score? In these last three months Scamacca has shown that he can score goals on any occasion. As soon as he gets one he will know how to exploit it. Everyone says we’re missing an Italian center forward, but we have one.” Yet Frattesi scores more, so far: “The model is Perrotta, who also worked with the coach. More recently Marchisio. They are models that I look at to understand the positions, the movements, to improve.”