The selection of Italy the defense of the title begins Euro Cup and will have in front, this Saturday at 2 in the afternoon, Colombian time, his counterpart from Albania.
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“He doesn’t have enough talent,” said the Portuguese coach Jose Mourinhofired by Roma in January, about the possibility of Italy obtaining the third European crown to its record after those achieved in 1968 and 2021.
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Former goal scorer Bayern Munich and the Italian team Luca Toni He is also clear: “There are teams that are better prepared and that on paper are stronger.”
Gianluigi Buffon, the legendary goalkeeper and current head of the Italian delegation, came out in defense of the team. “I think this Italy is underrated, but it is very competitive,” he said. “It makes me laugh, in the previous Euro Cup there were the same doubts about our potential. We are going to show again what we are worth,” declared Juventus forward Federico Chiesa.
“The best scorer among the 26 called up is the Inter midfielder Nicolo Barella, with nine, far from European references such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappé or Harry Kane. To complicate things, Barella himself is doubtful due to muscle problems and has not trained with his teammates since the beginning of the training camp in Iserlohn (western Germany),” the AFP agency said:
The Albanian team is led by the Brazilian Sylvinho and is playing his second Euro Cup after 2016, but he knows Italian football well. “Ten of its members play in Serie A and will be encouraged by the strong Albanian emigrant community in the Ruhr River basin, where the match is played,” the agency stated.
The match can be seen in Colombia on Espn or Star +.
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