Mancini, 11 months from Wembley, promotes the turning point of young people

The blue coach continues the experiments: “It would have been absurd to start earlier” The British want a rematch to launch the sprint towards the Qatar World Cup

SENT TO WOLVERHAMPTON

We have already returned to Wembley, but England was not there: Messi and his associates beat us for manifest superiority and the first time inside the stadium of our European dreams it closed, on 1 June, with our heads down and dead batteries. The second trip across the Channel, in a few days, puts us back in front of the opponent against whom we have given shape to the wishes for a rematch of the final eleven months ago a bit out of tune.

The British have a World project to work on and they will do it by putting their hand to some novelties or tests such as the choice of the Romanist Abraham and not that of the totem Harry Kane: fighting us to prove ourselves stronger than the three missed penalties on July 11th will be theirs. mission, but they will try to do so by relying on those who are less involved in the two Nations League matches with no satisfactions given the defeat in Hungary and the 88th minute at the German home. And U.S? We built ours in the London nights only to get lost behind Macedonia and lose Qatar: challenging the English is always a noble moment, but challenging England by adding a little credibility to the new blue restart is the real theme of the duel of Wolverhampton.

The Italian coach Roberto Mancini, from the sweetest land to him in his career, dictates the future line: the young people who have been promoted from the stage at the end of May will have a role even when it is the turn of the senators to take back the scene. When? Times and ways will be dictated by circumstances. «If, in September, we are in the running to win the Nations League group, then we will need the experience and personality of the most present, otherwise we will go on like this. And, in any case, these young guys with some of those who have won the European Championship will form a good team », Mancio stressed. Translated: in the head of the Italian coach there is already a significant skimming of the group that led us to win last 11 July at Wembley.

Italy has embarked on the path of curiosity, inevitable to retain that part of the public that has come off the radar due to the profound global disappointment. Could the green shift have begun earlier? “Before, it would have been a senseless move: after the victory in the European Championship we found ourselves on the pitch almost immediately and there was no reason to revolutionize a group with an average age of under 30”, said Mancini.

Tonight the British, Tuesday Germany: other debuts are on the horizon. Gatti and Luiz Felipe, Scalvini, Salvatore Esposito and Caprari, the latter being the only one closer to thirty than twenty, will experience the emotion of the first time with the Italy shirt as has already happened, in this window, at Ricci, Pobega, Dimarco, Cancellieri, Frattesi and Gnonto. In the midst of so many names of the future, Balotelli appears again. «I love him very much. And Mario knows it: maybe I should have called him back before the decisive match against Switzerland in the qualifications for the World Cup, now … ». Now it would have no effect other than to get in the way of the synthesis process between young players and European champions. –

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