No video games and hard fist: according to the coach Luciano Spalletti this is the recipe to lift the National Italian. It might seem like a parody of Sergeant Hartman from Full Metal Jacket, but instead it is the reality delivered by the Tuscan coach to the columns of Gazzetta dello Sport: “From here on out the Playstation they leave them at home and don’t take them anymore. I’ll invent a little game for him to think about distract yourself at night“, says Spalletti. Who is convinced that this is the way to bring Italy back to triumph: “I need to bring out a strong national team, I’m not satisfied with anything – says the coach – I want win the European Championship and then I want to win the World“. Yet, it must be remembered, just three years ago the Azzurri lifted the Cup a Wembley carried away by the soundtrack”But what diet, I like it and purpett“, a song in Neapolitan dialect that has become the pre-match anthem, the perfect emblem of a national team light-hearted who also managed to beat the English and win the European Championship.
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“Shirt, values, pride, responsibility, these are not words that I use at random, even if someone must have thought so… Some players must have believed that Spalletti barks and then he doesn’t have teeth, instead they are wrong and now there are some things that must be made clear“, Spalletti attacks immediately. Who then continues: “They come to me and I give them the assignments to do in the evening if those during the day were not enough. Because in the national team you stay on track, concentrate, don’t mess around. I repeat the slogan of the All Blacks, ‘No dickheads… here.’ This is the clear message sent by the coach to the Azzurri. Which almost seems to already be afraid of someone failure: “Then we can go out immediately, but the speeches I make to the team are those that all Italians expect: we go in Germania to win, not to participate. Our history requires it. To do this I need these footballers to become better than they are. I don’t have time to exercise them: they need something that gets inside them and turns them on a firemake them shell out the eyesgive him the belief to be able to do it.”
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Spalletti seems to have it in for some players in particular: “I mobile phones I have to put up with them, but they cannot be kept on the massage table and during treatments. I talked about video games because there have been things cI did NOT like them and please write the ‘not’ in capital letters”, says Alla Journal. The continuation of the interview is full of clichés about “today’s young people” who obviously – as the rhetoric goes – do not have the values of the past: “I want to revive the gatherings and retreats of the past: old habits e atmospheres. Things simple e sane. E Buffon he will help me with this. If modernity is playing the Playstation until 4 in the morning when there is a match the next day, then this modernity is not good,” says Spalletti.
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The coach then hangs up with the same refrain: “We live in a world that little incentive il stand Worksweating things out: today’s kids prefer to wear a photo from your Instagram with the hair done rather than putting your head down and pedaling. These are not the values that my Italy must transmit”, remarks the coach. In the interview there is also room for a few effective phrase: “You come to the national team with laughing eyes and a beating heart and you feel like a team pack of wolves that go in single file to push your teammate to the front and leave no one behind. The Italians are asking for a badass and responsible national team, solid and bold.” And then the phrase which at this point becomes the manifesto of Spalletti’s Italy: “You come to the national team to win the European Championship, not to vincere a Call of Duty“. But will the PlayStation really be the problem?
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