Players retired from last night in Coverciano From today on Raiuno (8.30 pm) the TV series “Il Sogno Azzurro”
ROME. If I dream it must be, let it be “on top of the world“. Roberto Mancini has taken Italy by the hand, which is now running towards its debut at the European Championships with renewed ambitions and meanwhile proposes itself on TV, in an unedited version: they are blue as the protagonists of “Sogno Azzurro” have never been seen (broadcast from today to Thursday at 8.30 pm on Rai 1), the docu-series in four episodes, which tells the journey of the Italian national team to the European Championship. For the first time, the public will be able to enter the private life of the Azzurri in Coverciano with the narrating voice of the actor Stefano Accorsi. From building to church while they are having a barbecue to ease the tension before the game, intent on the rite of the new players who have to sing and with the blue coach struggling with Ligabue’s “A life as a median”. And then the assignment of the jerseys with Belotti and Sirigu who decide them at the table, but above all the behind the scenes of how Roberto Mancini’s Italy was consolidated, right from the matches with Bosnia and Holland in the Nations League with the national team that played also for the ranking.
Uefa’s clearance is expected in the next few hours to replace Stefano Sensi with Matteo Pessina in the list of 26 for the European Championships. From the medical staff of the National team, coordinated by Professor Ferretti, accurate documentation was sent to the Uefa medical commission to certify the impossibility of the Inter midfielder (who last Thursday injured himself in training due to a relapse of the problem adductors remedied in May) to recover in time to participate in the competition that will begin on 11 June in Rome with the Italy-Turkey match. As per regulation, UEFA needs the go-ahead for the replacement of Sensi and the inclusion of the Atalanta player Pessina among the 26 players, who has been added as a reserve since Monday. At the end of the friendly played by the Azzurri last Friday with the Czech Republic, coach Roberto Mancini, when asked specifically, appeared pessimistic about the Inter player’s recovery.
A mini-vacation of about 36 hours then last night, before 10pm, the Azzurri returned to Coverciano to prepare for the expected debut in the opening match of the European Championships, on 11 June at the Olimpico in Rome against Turkey. As for the other injured player, Marco Verratti, the coach explained that the PSG midfielder is making continuous progress after the collateral injury of the right knee suffered at the beginning of May: his availability for the opening match of the European Championships is difficult for now, easier. for the following one on June 16 with Switzerland. In any case, its conditions will be evaluated.