Spalletti’s national team: all present on the first day of training

Luciano Spalletti’s national team is underway. No training tests but an hour and a half of athletics and above all technical/tactical exercises: no last-minute forfeits, no defection, all the 29 Azzurri called up showed up and took part in the work session, even if those who played yesterday finished a little earlier than those who took the field with their clubs between Friday and Saturday.

smiling

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Spalletti appeared excited and smiling then together with his staff, also present on the sidelines the blue head of delegation Gigi Buffon, presented today by the federal president Gabriele Gravina, started training, the first in view of the European qualifying match of away on Saturday with North Macedonia which will mark his debut on the blue bench: 4-3-3 formation, movements and exchanges like in the Napoli of the Scudetto, all the players alternating in their respective roles. Among the tridents tested: Chiesa-Immobile-Zaniolo (the former Roma player was the last to join after his commitment to Liverpool with Aston Villa), Politano-Retegui-Chiesa and then Gnonto-Raspadori-Zaccagni. In the role of director there is a ballot between Locatelli and Cristante with the first lined up together with Barella and Tonali and the second with Frattesi and Pessiina. In the final, the defenders worked on another field (Di Lorenzo, Casale, Spinazzola, Romagnoli, Mancini and Scalvini) while Spallletti continued his exercises with the midfielders and forwards.

meret

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In the end he greeted the players one by one, giving a high five and then embracing Meret, his goalkeeper in Naples. A group of Ukrainian children guests in Coverciano on the initiative of the `Hope Ukraine´ association also attended the session, which was open to the media all the time. The next training session is scheduled for tomorrow at 17, this time open only for the first 15 minutes.