Gianni Petrucci stresses the great virtue of the national team
Gianni Petrucci stresses the great virtue of the national team
Speaking at Italbasket’s presentation for Eurobasket 2022 in the Sky studios, Gianni Petrucci had his say on the Azzurri’s path: “This national team can go anywhere. When your name is Italy, you can win everything. Speaking to the team, I said that this edition of the European Championships is surpassing many others in interest. Matches already almost sold out, it means that after 32 years a first phase in Italy is very important.”
“In 2015 I said that, on paper, it was the strongest national team ever. This one, again on paper, is not on that level, so I don’t create expectations but I believe in it. This is a National Team that always stands during matches, there is heart. Any team wants to get to win, no one leaves to be beaten. This national team can get anywhere. When your name is Italy, you can win everything.”
Gianmarco Pozzecco’s band will have to do without Danilo Gallinari, who suffered a meniscus injury: “It hurts tremendously. Not so much the knee that gave out yesterday in a game that was still won in character. That will take time to get back to the way it was. It bloody hurts to give up this blue dream. We wanted to give ourselves magical nights. In my house. In our home,” he wrote on social media.
