Italy’s interim coach after the success in Luxembourg: “This Italy has values. We created several opportunities, but we can do better. My concern is to feel useful for the kids”
Silvio Baldini brings smiles and victory back to the youngest national team ever. In the friendly match in Luxembourg, a header from Pio Esposito, the only veteran with Donnarumma from the defeat against Bosnia, decides, but our team creates and entertains. “I’m very satisfied, I knew that these guys have values. Most of them are rookies, our fans present here made us feel how much they love us. It’s never a given but I knew they would win, the stars were on our side.”
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“What worked and what didn’t – continues Baldini at the end of the match -? The team created opportunities in the offensive phase but is capable of creating better actions. Today, especially in the first half, they didn’t do these actions and that’s why it was difficult to get to the shot. What emotions did I feel? I’m a bit strange. When these matches happen I don’t feel emotion but at most the worry of not feeling useful for these guys. If you make a mistake, like a gear in a clock, you risk jamming a mechanism. This is my concern.”