The Argentine relaunches after the Champions League: “I still don’t explain that ko, but we are Inter and we have to turn the page. I asked to be strong to the companions, I explained that in the USA you need a last effort before the holidays”
There is what you should do. And then there is what one can do. Lautaro is suspended there, between these two streets, while he arrives at the Ucla field passing through children and teenagers who scream his name. He has a smile in his face. But the eye betrays a good dose of melancholy. It is always the same, the captain. It is he who first whispers “we have to turn the page and do not think about that happened” and then he says “I don’t explain how it was possible to lose such a great opportunity in that way”. In fact: removal not succeeded, good stuff for psychologists. One thing strikes: Lautaro never mentions Monaco. Never the word ‘final’. Never the PSG. Everything is synthesized in “What happened”. Because even naming it hurts, that 5-0.
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But sooner or later the disappointment ends or not? Here then Lautaro. That two things really want to tell them. The first on the new coach: “We felt on the phone, even before finding him here. We talked for a long time, he told me about his work ideas. And I like them, I agree, we think in the same way. I understood and saw in him the desire to win, he is a man that my own mentality”. Not a bad way to approach the fourth technician of his history at Inter, after Spalletti, Conte and Inzaghi. The other message is as a pure captain. Because the bull is keen to let us know: “Like Chivu, I also talked to my companions. And I asked them to be strong, I explained that one last effort is needed before going on vacation, a last piece of road to go to continue growing”. Here: here the removal seems more successful. Here is the desire for the sample to recover the field. From Monaco onwards it is in fact disappeared. Zero minutes in two games with the Seleccion, even the Technical Commissioner Scaloni saw him unloaded in every profile: “I was sad, difficult to go deeply on the reasons, I took it 5-6 days to speak, I wanted to explain to my people. That night he did not succeed anything and we were all of them: we were not us, we were not a team. It is football. And now we have to go on, there is no other possibility, even if in the head he remains”.
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The feeling, while running and snorts between the Ucla undergraduates, is that in some way the new I intrigue Lautaro. “It is important to breathe some fresh air – he says, referring to the change on the bench -. It is nice to do different things with the new coach, even if the concepts are not so different from Inzaghi. But something will change, especially on the pressing during the games. It is still early, it has passed a little time but we are working for this. It will be essential for us to quickly understand what Chivu asks us”. Also because there is a world championship world championship: “I have sadness on me for not being able to raise any trophy this season. But if I turn back I can’t say that it was a negative season. And this must give us the push to start again with the desire always”. Which is that of a tournament that intrigues. “We are Inter, we are a mature team, we always want to get to the top. This world championship we want to play everything. And I have the desire to put all the energy possible to help the team. There is no more room to turn back.” And he says it as to convince himself that it is possible immediately, already today against Monterrey. Maybe he will help him read Alison Lurie, the US writer who said: “In Europe you go to see the past, but to observe the future you have to visit California”. We are ready.
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