After the tournament he will go to play Washington, the first Italian in the National Women’s Soccer League: “The CT Soncin has always given us confidence, from the tears of my companions I understood that we have rewritten the story”
The music now puts her on the pitch with her assist and outside with her modern choices. Sofia Cantore inspired Cristiana Girelli with two assists, but took her the role of DJ of the group, who now plays (and very carefully) together with Arianna Caruso. Attached for the long night of celebrations but with the joke ready, he laughs when he points out that he has removed the scepter of the playlists to the veterana. “Eh, let’s say that music evolves. Cri still put that of the holiday village. Then when it comes to celebrating and involving everyone Carrà is always good for us”.
What emotion remains after this qualification for the semifinal?
“I struggle to achieve what happens, I always need some time. But see the others, especially the biggest girls with tears in my eyes made me understand that we had done something historical”.
What was the key to success?
“I don’t know how to say it, we talked about it a lot among us. I think the last minute goals come because there is something that pushes you. Something that goes beyond the football skills. We suffered and the union of intent has helped us. It seemed that it should go like this. We started dreaming and this way of doing has brought us so far”.
But football skills have a weight, like his assist to Girelli …
“The first was a shot, Cristiana was good at deviating on the net. The second … I raised my head and saw three girls, Caruso, Girelli and Cambiaghi, who called the cross. I said to myself: I move it to the right and put it in the area. As I knew it would be the right ball. Attacking the area in this way means really believing so much to be able to reach the finish line”.
Which was, like Massimo, the semifinal. Now look further?
“Now we do not put ourselves limits. But we know that reaching the final is a difficult goal”.
What brought CT Soncin to this group?
“He gave us so much confidence. He told us from the first day that we could play with anyone. And on the tactical level he takes care of every detail: we enter the field always knowing exactly what we have to do”.
The coach says that your football has purity, President Gravina said that you are the symbol of Italy the most beautiful, the one that never gives up. An investiture that gives pressure?
“There is a different purity, because we made other paths. But I don’t believe in certain judgments that I read, I don’t think the boys when they wear the blue shirt do it without the right motivations. I think they are the same, even if they have made other paths. And the President’s judgments are a stimulus: every day there is a struggle to involve more people in the movement. soccer”.
They are doing well, judging by the television share.
“The results help and we try to go higher. The national team is like a family.”
Sofia, she is one of the youngest of the team: after this European will go to play in the United States, in Washington, the first Italian in that championship. How did you make the decision to leave Juventus?
“I am a curious person and I like the idea of knowing another football and another culture. As for age, at 25 I feel a little a trait of Union between the senior and younger players. Let’s say I belong to the generation of the middle”.
Do you ever feel the epic tales of when you played on the beaten ground fields?
“I hear them and I also think that they are part of an important legacy, because from those difficulties the many achievements that have brought us here come from here. We have to go on, without forgetting the values that come from those difficulties. I feel above all the tales of epic trips by bus from Brescia to Bari, lunch in the motorway and in the afternoon it is played. They are iconic moments, but on the other hand I happened to train on a nine field: for this reason I believe it believes to believed Mezzo. and I think that our path, our values must be preserved.
Sofia, let’s not talk about the final. In addition to this, what is your next dream?
“Graduate in Food Sciences. Sooner or later I will be able to take this blessed degree”.
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