Lorenzo Insigne is still a candidate for the national team
The words of Lorenzo Insigne
Lorenzo Insigne è returned to talk about the national team in La Repubblica: "Only in Italy those who go to play far è are automatically excluded from the tour and we do not understand why.South Americans who are in Serie A can make a 13-hour flight every time, why è we are not allowed?”"
"I don’t feel like a former – he added – not yet. To the national team you never say goodbye, not even after 40. And I am only 33. To the national team jersey you don't say goodbye, you always do your best to deserve it. Otherwise you follow as a fan”.
“At the World Cup one should not just go back. The national team will have to play it again as a protagonist, with the ambition of being able to win it. We are Italy, 4-time world champions. Here in Canada, the host nation with the U.S. and Mexico, there is already an atmosphere of anticipation, with billboards on the streets even though it is a year and a half away. Soccer in America is not è yet followed like the other national sports: baseball, basketball, football. But the movement is growing and the flywheel of the World Cup will be extraordinary, with the arrival of champions. I hope Italy can play at least one game in Toronto: in Canada there's a warm and large community of ours”.
“The two missed World Cups are a stain, even in my career. I am grateful to Prandelli for at least taking me to Brazil, but I was still a young boy and my only rainbow adventure was not as a protagonist. Instead, with Ventura and Mancini we failed to qualify and it was especially the second time that hurt. We were the European champions, with Switzerland we were also condemned by episodes and bad luck. Then we sank in the play-offs. An explanation in the locker room we could not give ourselves. I hear talk of a talent crisis, and maybe there's also something true. But our history says otherwise: champions have always been born in Italy and we just need to help them more to emerge, as happens abroad. Clubs must invest in the growth of young people, coaches give them space and confidence. Pure for the national team and it is already happening, with the arrival on the national team bench of Spalletti. The coach is opening the doors of club Italy to young people and the results are beginning to show. The path in the Nations League è has been excellent so far and è important, in view of the World Cup qualifiers”.
