“The market rumours about me? Luckily the Napoli he took the coach, otherwise…”. The national team coach says it jokingly Roberto Mancini in a press conference on the eve of the match withNetherlands, valid for the third and fourth place final of the third edition of the Nations League.
“Am I still happy to be in blue?
These are stories that have neither head nor tail. Being the coach of the national team makes me happy, regardless of everything.
Then you can be disappointed after a match because you lost, otherwise it would be too simple,” he added to Sky Sport microphones.
“I was disappointed about the match, I really wanted to win and reach the final but this doesn't change anything – he added regarding his motivations in blue -. Discouragement does not exist, everything is as before. The new project has already begun, we have reached the finals of Nations League with a young group.
Then we arrived here at a time with so many competitions, between the Under 20 World Cup and the Under 21 European Championship. We had to leave some players in the Under 21 team that is trying to qualify for the Olympics, but the path has already been taken”.
The coach then spoke about tomorrow's match scheduled in Enschede: "Retegui tomorrow play for sure, it was already planned to play a one-man game.
The players are tired, however, we tried to get them to recover in the days we had them. There will certainly be some changes.
How do you approach this match? It's always an international match with its own importance, it must be played well and tried to win even if it doesn't count for first place", he added.
Article published on 17 June 2023 - 18:57
