From Mancini to Pecci, from Destro to Courtois: here are the previous players who refused the call of their technical commissioner
Brothers of Italy, Italy called. And every now and then someone said no. Acerbi, in these hours. Refuse the call, parades, does not feel considered. Paths followed with the CT Spalletti. And no, Acerbi in the national team does not go there. The refusal to the blue shirt is always lived as an outrage. It is not an obligation, but it manifests itself as a desertion, for many a betrayal to the rhetoric of the slogan that does not provide unjustified absences when it comes to defending the tricolor. It is all already happened. And it happens more and more frequency, also in other sports: twenty days ago the coach of volleyball Italy Julio Velasco said it clear and round: “Pietrini, Chirichella, Bonifacio and Lubian have refused the call. For me the door is closed. A no is always a no and the national team is special, it is not a club”. Spalletti could subscribe to the words of the Velco essay. Still: to make everyone a reason, the panting rhetoric of those who swear that “playing in the national team is the dream of any footballer” no longer applies. Even not, come on, fairy tales don’t live here.