Atalanta, Gian Piero Gasperini dots the i’s and asks for time
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Gian Piero Gasperini returned to speak on the sidelines of the open meeting of the Small Industry Committee of Confindustria Bergamo: “In Italy we make the mistake of immediately demanding results even from boys in youth sectors instead of leaving them free to play and make mistakes. At six years old they are already playing tournaments with their parents fighting in the stands. Physical performance is preferred over everything”.
“At’Atalanta, certainly, you have to enhance the players above all, more than winning. You start with the qualities of young people to develop, and I who started from the youth sectors then always worked with teams that based their policy on youth. But in Italy on the nurseries we are wrong, the professional clubs are different from the amateurs because they choose boys a span higher. So no champions come out and the first teams are chock full of foreigners. At Barcelona, on the other hand, apart from Yamal who is a phenomenon, the youngsters are normal kids even physically. In Spain they respect the characteristics of a Mediterranean people by privileging technique”.
“Last year I ended up with two goalkeepers, the up-and-coming Carnesecchi and Musso who instead was an investment of the club. There was a risk of dualism, instead they were able to team up on their own and became friends. Musso in January had not found a team and became the cup goalkeeper by winning the Europa League. They made themselves available to each other by becoming friends. I have no credit, until December I had alternated them”.
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