[…] Twenty days after the debut, no one is embarrassed to ask: what will Italy do without it Calafiori? A yellow card, the second of the tournament, taken to stop a Croatian counterattack will take away from Spalletti his vision of the game, his defensive readings for the key point of this European adventure: Saturday’s round of 16 match against Switzerland. […] Just a year ago Riccardo from Romea left-handed boy who grew up on the Petriana pitches, with St. Peter’s in the background, seemed like a lost talent in the Swiss championship, at Basel. And wounded by the most painful of failures: that of his Roma. Mistakes always struggle to find fathers and those who rejected them are far away today. General manager Tiago Pinto gave it to the Swiss. And José Mourinho needed martyrs for his holy warafter a humiliation in Bodo/Glimt, with 6 goals conceded by a Norwegian team […] The ending is open, between the courtships that increase his valuation (Bologna will have to give half of the proceeds of his possible sale to Basel) and the value of the suitors: Juventus has moved, now there is the real Madrid. And the desire to ensure that Leipzig’s tears after the assist are not his last image of the European Championship.
(The Republic)
