Fortunato Award to Coni, Spalletti the best coach: "Now the pressure increases"

This morning at Cones it took place there XIII Edition of the “Andrea Fortunato Award – Sport is Life” which promotes the mandatory nature of the blood passport, which aims to introduce blood and cardiac tests among those currently required to obtain sports fitness.

Fortunato Award at Coni, Spalletti the best coach

The Prize was awarded to Luciano Spalletti in the category “best coach” in the presence of the President of the Olympic Committee, Giovanni Malago, Gabriele Gravina (FIGC president, who received an award in memory of Gianluca Vialli), Mauro Balata (president of Lega Serie B) and other protagonists of the world of football. Malagò spoke of an initiative “grown year after year”.

And speaking about the blood passport he said that “we are all playing this game together, involving various institutions”.

“There is a desire to use a tool that can dispel any doubts on the matter” The number one of Coni concluded. Among the winners also Franco Baresi (Football Legends Award), Rosella Sensi (fair play award) and the president of Salernitana, Daniel Iervolino, who said he hoped “that the championship finally returns to the South”.

Spalletti: “We need to be calm.

The pressure? We have to manage it”

“We have to manage the pressure, we need to be very calm.

There is still a lot of work to do and there are a number of games that do not allow us to have distractions, but it is nice that the team is so attentive and eager to play"he said Spalletti on the sidelines of the awards ceremony.

“From now on, precisely because situations that will not let us feel at ease will increase, it will be difficult to remain light and creative - he added - THEEintracht in Champions?He's as strong as us.

We have studied it and it will be a very difficult challenge."

To those who ask him if this Napoli It's the strongest team I've ever coached, he replied: “I have coached great teams and great players. I have no regrets, whatever happens, I will live well.

I have dedicated my life to this sport and I will continue to do so. When you do this it becomes easier to accept future events."

Then he concluded by talking about kvaratskhelia: “He has this sensitivity in dribbling, in caressing the ball and in carrying out those feints that are so difficult to defend against.

Maybe it is Salah one of those who had this quality in the tight and this very precise finishing. He's someone who doesn't feel the pressure."