Gravina: “We have chosen Spalletti, moving forward with confidence and patience in the project we have started”

At the press conference to illustrate the guidelines that the FIGC and the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security will follow to plan the sustainability of football events and sports infrastructures, the FIGC president Gabriele Gravina was the host and spoke alongside the undersecretary of the ministry, Claudio Barbaro. “I reiterate the choice of a project that we are carrying out and which requires patience and work. The climate is serene in our retreat: we are talking about a European football championship, with the results that are linked to the strength of the opponents and other variables. We have great confidence in our possibilities: the team is training well and is ready mentally and technically, Spalletti knows what to do. We were thrilled by the victory against Albania and we were not depressed after the deserved defeat against Spain trust you too because this is a young team with little international experience. We need to give our team time to grow, however, whatever the result, we will move forward with the best coach who was on the market at the time (Spalletti, ed.) and who we have. chosen. He has his own philosophy and we carry it forward aware of the potential of the group. Compared to other situations there are differences in terms of experience, given that we only have 4 over 30s compared to 7 in Spain, in terms of selectable material and availability of players. structures. The football history of a country is not enough to have expectations: those are based on the work and the path one takes. The European Championship is not played only by those who go on the pitch, but by all the nations as a whole. To become special we need to be serene, to experience everything with enthusiasm, with the support of the fans which grows here day by day. I understand everyone’s expectations and ours are greater than those of the fans: we will wait for the next match knowing that our team can compete with other teams and aware that the result is also unknown in Monday’s match against Croatia . There may be falls, but we must always be good at resuming our path. In 2021 I always said that we were a normal team and then you know how it ended. I repeat it now too: we need everything that surrounds us, work, enthusiasm and the push of the people.”