The Italian team reached the final four of the European League, and to be honest, many Italian fans had mixed feelings. Obviously there is competitive strength, but the continuous absence of the World Cup, if you already know that there can be so many young people can be reused, why let the veteran use to retire to make Italian football not pick up ah! But to be more serious, if it were not for the severe pain of not being able to participate in the World Cup, I am afraid that the Italian team could not be so determined to renew, after all, the honor of the European Cup champion is there, and it cannot chill the hearts of the veterans.
Today's national team is more like the "national Olympic team"
Fortunately, Italy has been blessed this time, through the European League training a large number of young players, and even young talents such as Raspadori can take on the responsibility of goals, which has been criticized in the past as a worse and worse striker for the Italian team, which is tantamount to great relief, without the pressure of the World Cup, Italian football may usher in a good restart.
▲ Raspadoli has scored in a hot state
Mancini promoted young people with "civilianization" and "low starting point"
Although he did not reach the World Cup, the Italian Football Association still supported and affirmed Mancini's head coaching work. Mancini himself also believes that coaching the current Italian team must be a long-term job, although in the short term to bring the team a European Cup championship, but that is the front of the veteran "last afterglow", the future must start from the cultivation and promotion of young talents, and the current selection of materials is not good, at least compared with other football powers, Italy's young talents can not be considered top, so the first requirement to change is the team, the team's threshold is lowered, it is conducive to young players to fight for more opportunities.
He was not an absolute main force in Naples
To say that this post-00s youngster who scored consecutive games Raspadoli, he is also the first to receive attention in Mancini's plan. At the European Championships, he played with the team and made his debut, but at the time he was more like a child who came to "see the world", and Mancini did not expect him to be able to take on heavy responsibilities in the short term. During the World Cup, due to the intensity of the game and the injury absence of veterans, his playing time was greatly improved, Mancini in order to make him play more calmly (arranged in the position of the ninth and a half, need a high school forward), his then teammate Scamarca also recruited into the national team, and deliberately moved Sassuolo's front line directly to the national team (there is also a Berardi) The result is not bad, which also played a decisive role in the growth of Raspadori.
▲ Gnoto "jumped" into the national team in another way
Because the team has a fulcrum center like Scamarca, Mancini hopes to find a faster striker on the basis of Raspadori, who is more prominent in the counterattack, so as to expand the vision of the selection to foreign leagues and find the original unknown 18-year-old striker Gnoto. After "trying" in the game, he found that the boy was not afraid of the stage, the speed was fast, and after receiving his debut goal against Germany, he became more and more confident, and even the fans thought that the talent was not inferior to that of the Ba Shen of that year. The Premier League's Leeds United immediately took it into the squad to replace Rafinha who moved to Barca, which shows Mancini's vision. These young people who can play in the national team are playing a very positive role model for more "alternative" young people - as long as you have the strength and effort, the invitation and opportunity to play in the national team will be close to you.
▲ Scamarca has a long way to go in the Premier League
The "exodus" of young talents is not necessarily a bad thing
If you ask the owner of a Serie A club whether he dares to let go of the appointment of young players to play in the league, I am afraid that few will say "dare" happily, after all, in the Serie A league, which is one of the five major leagues in Europe, the boss and the head coach do not dare to "bet on youth with results", so there are few opportunities for local 21-year-old or even 23-year-old players. For example, after Gonnotto chose to reject Inter's offer at a young age and leave Switzerland and succeeded, he used the excellent performance of the national team to enter the Premier League, which in our view is also a wise and inspirational form of success.
▲ "Little Giant" Luca runs away from Ajax
In fact, the Serie A has long since lost the glory of the "Little World Cup" of that year, but in the Serie A clubs, young players are often used as "vouchers", either on loan to weak teams, or when the coupon gold is sold to his team, and eventually many "stars of hope" fall into the low-level league mix, which is more pathological for the development of Italian football.
▲ "Center-back hope" Vitti switched to Nice
Fortunately, over the years, some local young players have boldly stepped out of their "homes" to earn playing opportunities and be honed in non-five league teams. For example, the 2.02m high school striker Luca chose to transfer to "Star Factory" Ajax in order to shape the modern center direction and avoid relying only on height. For example, the much-watched 20-year-old central defender Vitti switched to Ligue 1 Nice, or can avoid the bottleneck caused by his idol Rougani staying in Juve. Of course, there is Esposito, who made his debut and scored at Inter at the age of 17, who went to Lukaku's highly recommended parent team Anderlecht and got more opportunities to play.
▲ Lukaku "ignited" Esposito Chi to help the mother team
Nowadays, it seems that these young people who have been trained in actual combat and have full opportunities for growth will "return" to the adult national team and the national youth team, which should be more beneficial than harmful to the future of Italian football. For Serie A, which is generally reluctant to reuse young people, they can realize their football ambitions in a foreign country and avoid becoming a short-lived flower. Moreover, the few years of missing the World Cup are the perfect opportunity for these young people to take the position as soon as possible, whether they can revitalize Italian football, in one fell swoop.