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Italy, Mancini 50 days later “They look at us with different eyes”

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The triumph of the European final won on the magical night of Wembley on 11 July The coach: “The people who stop you to thank you are always exciting”

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Fifty days later, the most beautiful, fun and different Italy of most of our history reconnects the thread with the Azzurri home. Fifty are the days of European champions and top of the class in a football that, today, looks at us in a new way. Roberto Mancini, coach of the national team, and his boys have a smiling face and the cup in their hands along the corridors and on the walls of Coverciano next to the national teams of Pozzo, Valcareggi, Bearzot and Lippi, groups that have been able to win.

What struck Mancini the most from the night of Wembley to today, who resumes his journey with a view to the World Cup in Qatar in fifteen months? “Wherever I went, I met people who said thank you to me: thank you for making us happy. Well, every time I felt a thrill, whether it was a child who told me or an eighty-year-old man because European success is the victory of 60 million Italians, of all ages ». Asking our coach to go further when it comes to emotions or feelings is not an easy task: Mancio is like that, deep in his reflections, but, at the same time, extremely reserved in expressing them. And then “thank you”, for him, means a lot, if not all.

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The night of Wembley, the one that brought the cup back to Rome after 53 years, sent a jolt of adrenaline still far from running out and showed Europe a new face of Italy. «Something has changed in our perception abroad: now – so the Italian coach – we are no longer the ones who just defend themselves, even if we remain the ones who defend themselves better. Now those who think of our national team think of a team that always tries to win, in the event or away, against weaker opponents on paper and against more popular opponents ». Mancini is our image and source of inspiration, but fifty days later he doesn’t want to be called the master of a new route. “We won like this, but – he says – you can achieve success in other ways and the history of Italian football tells it.” Gratitude often turned into a reverse assist for us when, out of gratitude, the various winning coaches were shared out as a whole by those who had led them to the triumph. For Mancini, gratitude is a value, but not an axiom, thus, the Italian post-European restart will live on meritocracy, albeit within a group that has lived the “left-handed” school from May three seasons ago to today. «I’m not afraid of a satisfaction effect, because I know my boys well: they always want to win. And, then, there are players who weren’t in the European Championship, perhaps due to injuries, and who can help us: I told the team immediately, even those who stayed at home, but were with us in these three years he helped us to win the title ». The most beautiful, fun and unprecedented Italy gets back into motion to secure qualification for the World Cup. Mancini elegantly invites clubs to “bet on Italians” and does so by recalling the Matteo Ricci case.

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“We called him up last March and he made a great impression on us: when I read that, at 27, he was left without a club, I had a bad feeling,” he underlines. Ricci found a club in Frosinone, but Ricci, for Mancio, becomes the emblem of something that doesn’t add up. To return are the accounts of his Italy. “We can still improve,” he smiles. Sixty million graces moved him. –

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