Luciano Spalletti says goodbye to the national team and draws a final balance sheet
At the end of the match won by Italy against Moldova, his last match as head coach of the national team, Luciano Spalletti spoke not only about the match itself, but also about everything that has characterized the last phase of his experience in the Azzurri, with the defeat in Norway that in fact marked the end of the Certaldo coach’s management.
We struggled again tonight, but we confirmed what we had already seen: this group I’ve confirmed but it was really fatigued, maybe by going to look for someone who was better physically we could have had different answers but if out of 25 players so many are like that it is a sign of a general wear and tear”.
“The real difficulty was playing in Norway against a team that had all’different physicality– added Spalletti -I do not want to blame the players, when one coaches the national team he has no alibi because he chooses them: I was convinced that this group could give me a type of response and in some ways it did, but the load of the game three days ago was too heavy”.
“A balance of my experience? Certainly we do not leave a great deal of enthusiasm – admitted the now former National Team coach – although tonight the audience responded splendidly. In the national team it is not only the players who have to make a difference but also the coach: I, unfortunately, did not make that difference”.
