Luciano SpallettiItalian coach and former Napoli coach, does not want to have there no distractions in concentration at Iserlhorn during Euro 2024 and long ago warned by prohibitions that their players have: no playing video games on the Play Station at night, or wearing helmets when walking together.
“I don’t want to see anyone walking around Coverciano (Italy’s sports city, in Florence) with in-ear headphones that look like crap. “His career will continue, but not mine,” he said directly on one of his first days as a coach.
‘Sergeant’ Spalletti is clear. He has his own method and doesn’t give a damn because he is in charge of the national team. Italy should be a equipmentthe strength and the chances of success depend on the synergy created in concentrations in the absence of diversity of talents that other teams may have.
In Iserlhorn, the home of the ‘Azzurra’ for this Euro Cup, a town located just 40 kilometers from Dortmund, there is a common games room. But it closes half an hour after midnight. Everyone lie down, but sleep. No video games. You need to rest.
“Now they leave the Play Stations at home and don’t bring them to rallies. They send me over and I give them homework to do in the afternoon.” if the day’s activities are not enough. By choice you must be what you must be, don’t waste time” he said a few months ago in an interview with ‘Gazetta dello Sport’.
His words caused a stir in Italy, but he stood his ground. He doesn’t want his players to take international matches as a break, as a chance to travel and see the world. You want maximum commitment and maximum involvement.
That in a Euro Cup is taken for granted. The player is mentally prepared. But it is a philosophy which he wants to extend to all international commitments, restore the value of the blue shirt and re-raise the greatness of the person who wears it.
“You go to the national team to win the Euro Cup, not to win the Challenge. If the novelty is to play on the Play station until 4 in the morning when there is a game the next day, then so be it this modernity is not good. “I have to allow cell phones, but they can’t be on the massage table during the treatment,” she added in that interview.
After a while, in a press conference he announced the reasons. In his second game as coach, a 2-1 victory over Ukraine, several players They stayed up playing.
“Some players stayed up the night before Ukraine. Addictions are not good. I think if we didn’t bring them cell phones they wouldn’t be sending messages. There are doctors who say that phones make you tense for 5 minutes of use and you don’t get the same rest,” he explains.
“The doctors said If you sleep well you get better and you perform better, says science. “These are things that need attention, but I see that they don’t care,” he added.
Since then, in the concentrations in Italy, it is all for and to improve the performance of the player. The champion cannot play players until dawn and ‘Sergeant’ Spalletti will be watching.
“The level of a player is seen for 22 hours outside the field. I don’t care what they do, but I am important that they will sleep at a certain time” he insisted.
Source: La Verdad
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