San Marino’s attack is cool with the former golden boy.
The fact is that Huuhkajat will face a team consisting of amateurs on Monday.
San Marino’s national football team is still among the underdog countries of futs. Its players mostly consist of people who play in San Marino, who do not bring bread to the table with football.
According to the information, the announcement of the European Championship qualifying group had to wait for a long time, when the players set their working days free for the football trip.
Already a 36-year-old goalkeeper Aldo Junior Simoncini is an auditor. On that side, he has played 64 international matches and is part of San Marino’s experienced guard. However, against Finland, you can see between the posts Elia Benedettini. His family owns an airport bus company, where the goalkeeper also works.
Central defender Michele Cevolin Wikipedia page rude. It is reminded there that Cevoli scored two own goals in 45 minutes against Russia in 2016. It was an under-21 international match.
The most interesting person from San Marino in these EC qualifiers is Roberto Di Maio, who plays his country’s premier league in Cosmos. The 40-year-old Di Maio, who was born in Naples, made his debut in the San Marino national team this spring. At the same time, he became the oldest national team debutant in UEFA competitions.
There is also youth in the defense. 22-year-old digital marketing expert Alessandro True has only got six international matches under his belt.
Representing La Fiorita Lorenzo Lunadei has been seen in San Marino’s shirt 31 times already. The midfielder has not managed to score once. Lunadei works as a car dealer in a company that he advertises on his Instagram account.
The most experienced national team player in the whole team is wearing the captain’s armband Matteo Vitaioli, 33. He has played no less than 83 international matches. Vitaioli’s only national team goal in his career came in 2015 against Lithuania. That hit was also San Marino’s first away goal in 14 years.
In addition, Vitaioli is a professional in the graphic field.
Golden boy
Nicola Nanni (in blue) plays professionally in Italy’s third tier. ZumaWire / MVPHOTOS
Even now named to the group Mirko Palazzi, 36, was long known as the country’s only professional player. Progress has been made, because Palazzi has been joined by others.
A top Filippo Fabbri, 21, plays in Italy’s third tier, Serie C. His club is Olbia. The same club team is also represented by San Marino’s perhaps most important player, Nicola Nanni.
Cool as a striker, Nanni, 23, was a teenage star in his country. He won San Marino’s Golden Boy award in 2019. The best under-23 player in the country can be awarded.
Nanni moved to the Italian academy of Cesena already in 2016. Two years later, he moved to Crotone, but no responsibility came. After a loan spell, Nanni ended up in Olbia last year.
Wants to hurt
The last time San Marino played in Finland’s qualifying group was more than ten years ago. In November 2010, at the Olympic Stadium, Finland scored an 8–0 crushing victory, which is especially remembered Jari Litmanen as a farewell match.
The away game in 2011 ended in a painful 1–0 victory.
In this year’s qualifiers, San Marino has, as expected, zero points after three matches. However, it has never been crushed. Against Slovenia, it kept a clean sheet until the second half.
– We have the right types of players to break San Marino’s low-lying block. You have to be creative and make runs behind the line. We have the tactical know-how for that, Huuhkajien Rasmus Schuller anticipate.
The Twitter phenomenon
Lorenzo Lunadei works as a car dealer. ZumaWire / MVPHOTOS
Perhaps the most famous person associated with San Marino football is their active fan. The San Marino fan account Twitter account has more than 50,000 followers.
An entertaining and sympathetic fan reports on every match of his country on Twitter. The style is flamboyant. As we saw in March, the importance of even one scored goal is huge. The fan went wild when San Marino scored against Northern Ireland. However, the goal was disallowed after an offside check.
– OMGMGMGMFMFMDBWJAOXBDMLWNSBDBDJCKCKSNWNSJDJX
– We scored a goal, we scored a goal in our first match of the year!
– Oh shit!
– Except.
Above all, the fans from San Marino encourage and cheer for their own until the end.