Euro2024, Luciano Spalletti ready to involve four historic Azzurri ’10’
Luciano Spalletti charges Italy ahead of Euro2024
During an interview given to the microphones of the "Corriere dello Sport", national team coach Luciano Spalletti, among other topics, spoke about Italy's ambitions at the upcoming European Championships. In addition, the Tuscan coach è also returned to talk about his farewell to Napoli after winning the Scudetto.
"At the European we do not have to fear anyone, let us put it in our heads as a fixed nail. We are the means to full happiness. Ours and that of those who love us. I will feel like the coach of the national team only when I have led Italy forward in the European championships. The national team jersey è something special. You have to train well in the two hours of practice, but also in the next 22 hours you have a duty to behave properly to honor the Azzurri jersey. It's better to have a player who is a little less qualitative, but morally whole" began the national team coach.
" I would like to bring to Coverciano, when we meet again for the preparation for the European Championships, four world 10s, Baggio, Del Piero, Totti and Antognoni. I have already talked about it with Gravina. Imagine if they attended one of our training sessions: they would push the boys to elevate their performance. Soon, the official invitation from the Federation will leave" continued the former Roma coach.
Changing the subject diametrically and then talking about Napoli, Spalletti explained: "After the first year my staff told me 'but what are we staying for? They sold everybody'. Mertens, Koulibaly, Ghoulam, Ospina, Insigne and Fabian Ruiz had left. So much quality;. I wanted to feel that I was the coach of Napoli and you è technicians of a team only if you do something actually important. When you meet De Laurentiis the first thing he tells you è that second we have already arrived and we must always be in the Champions League. Soì I set out again to achieve those goals".
" Eventually we managed to take ourselves to a higher level and at that point I decided to embrace the sadness and leave Napoli after that joy. It would have been easier and more natural to move on, to work with a group that we had brought to the top, to enjoy the happiness of the moment, the one made that wonderful people feel" concluded Luciano Spalletti.
