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Reaction to Italy squad at EURO 2024 - Ep. 230 · The Calcio Guys

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  No Eli brob Hey barda lest Jadge said, bbs Goadty that's the vibes heading
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  into the summer. We always got to keep it positive as much as uh,
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  I think we'll get angry on this pot today regarding the squad announcement,
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  we got to keep it positive. Euros coming up. It's just a Danno
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  and myself Nicholas here on the couch, guys, episode two thirty. Uh,
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  it's going good man. After coming in off of the legendary at Duro
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  Onlion Donald a beautiful banger. I'm pumped, you know me the Euros around
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  the corner, So I'm pumped. The squad got selected today, guys,
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  but I think named his twenty six men. But uh yeah, I guess
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  we wanna break it down. Uh yeah, A couple of surprises. You
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  know we talked about last week. There was the initial thirty men announcement.
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  I was I was surprised. I didn't realize it was today, like I
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  know, like I know, the rule was June seventh. I didn't realize
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  the deadline was June seventh for the euro team. I think they have until
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  next Thursday in case of any emergency, substitutions, but yeah, it was.
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  It was a bit of a shock today. You know, I opened
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  my phone at one point and then I just saw in our group chats.
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  You know, I think it was Nick Yanni who sent it as a as
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  a tweet that you know, this was the official roster for the Euros.
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  Let's well go, I'm just gonna name them all. I'll get right off
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  the bat. I'm just gonna name them all. Uh and thens we have
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  don A Ruma, a moret carrio defenders, Darmian di Lorenzo, Bastonian,
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  DiMarco, Gatti, Mancini, not Scalvini, but Giorno, Cambiaso and Bella
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  no nova and Califiordi, uh in mid Burrella Giorginio, Cristante, Pelogrini,
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  Fratesi, uh Fajoli and full of run show. And then up front he's
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  an El, Schawari, Raspidori, Scamaca, Detegi and Zaccani. So you
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  know, we went through this last week. I giano goalkeepers. I mean,
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  not too many surprises. Uh here. You know, at the end
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  of the day we knew it was either gonna be Vicario or Provodel. I
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  said Providel I think you said Vicario as at their goalie. You're right,
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  a lot of people weren't happy with Maret being there, But I'm not surprised
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  he's there. I mean, he's split the guy, he's he's the veteran
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  out of the group. You know, he was there, uh three years
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  ago as the backup. Like you know this has done a ruma's job,
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  like between Morett and Vicario, like this is only in case of injury,
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  knock on wood that doesn't happen, and Don Aruma plays all seven games.
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  But you know, any any thoughts on that? No? I think for
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  me it was like I said last week, I would I predicted it,
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  and there was not. For me, there was not much a discussion.
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  I mean, I know, I think many people are upset. You know,
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  Provdel should have been should have been in instead of Meret. But at
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  the end of the day, Nick, like you summed it up right there.
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  You know this is all you know preference at that point. You know,
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  in an ideal world, these guys are not touching the field, right,
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  So, and I think Madett was the only player in Euro twenty twenty
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  one that didn't even get any minutes out of all out of all twenty six
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  players. Even sidgu got in there. Metat was the only one who didn't,
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  so so maybe this time he might get a run if if it cruises
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  to the group stage. But no, I mean you know this or that.
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  I think it was kind of like a toss up. But I think
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  the two set and Stone we're obviously done at Vicadio. Those are I think
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  it was, you know, two top goalkeepers we have plenty of. But
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  the thing is with our keepers that we have so many, so many of
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  them, Like there's it's it's a it's a numbers game. At the end
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  of the day, you we're only taking three. People are shouting off for
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  Di Gregorio. Uh you know, obviously Provodel getting getting the cut over maybe
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  a guy like Medet, but you know, at the end of the day,
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  it is what it is, and you know these guys are going to
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  be our three, and you know, we hope, hope for the best
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  uh defense, you know, defense. I think this is one position group
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  that like uh splat team pretty much. He didn't really have any choices to
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  make. Unfortunately, injuries to Scalvini and a chairbe especially Scalvini. You know
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  here at the County guys, we send him his wishes. E cl inentry
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  on the last match in the game that sure, you could argue meant something
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  for Atlanta, they could have passed you Van the standings, but this is
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  a game that he really shouldn't have been playing. I know you could say
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  that you could get injured at any time. Any player could have gotten injured
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  in these friendlies. While they've played one, they still have the other one.
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  Hopefully no one gets injured. But you just feel for the kid.
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  He's twenty years old. I know he's gonna have a future ahead of him.
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  Hopefully he'll play at the World Cup in two years. Hopefully it'll it'll
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  will make the World Cup. But this is one of the bright young players.
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  And even a chairby like I don't think his injuries as serious. It's
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  just it's just enough that it'll it knocks him out of the tournament. And
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  you know, I said it last week that this is a guy who he
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  is a leader. He had a great, great season with Inter and I
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  think this is a loss honestly for Italy. It sucks. And you know,
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  there's not a lot of players that have even played in a tournament,
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  in a major tournament before in this team ten players who have done that.
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  Nine of those were on the team three years ago and only one other,
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  El Schaarwi, was on the team back in twenty sixteen. So already you're
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  losing. You're losing one of those guys, so it goes down to nine.
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  You know, it sucks for him. And then in place came in
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  Gatti, who was originally originally left off the original thirty men roster. So
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  he comes in and because of this, there's no cuts to the defense.
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  You know, Splitty really doesn't have any choices to make. He has his
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  his hands tied because of this injury, these because of these injuries. You
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  know, I saw some people on Twitter today questioning what Gatti's there, Well,
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  he's there because of the injuries. You know. I think center back
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  is one of those positions where I wouldn't say you could never have too many,
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  but you don't want to have enough. You know. It's one of
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  the situations where you either have not need the need that not have when it
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  comes to the center back dep because you know, these guys are they're in
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  the trenches right all all game. They're they're getting physical. So in case
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  there's an injury. You don't want to have mentioned. They didn't bring Ghatti
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  and they're down till what for four more center backs? I don't I forget
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  exactly the number. But you know, he's a good player. He's good.
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  He's gonna be a bench player. He might not even play, you
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  know, but like as fan, I've seen him play some games. Says
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  sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe ship. There's a reason he was left off
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  the original roster. But you know, I guess that injuries happen and then
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  he comes in. He's gonna fill a role and that's it. Uh,
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  there's really not much complaining here for defense. Yeah, I mean, listen,
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  I don't think like you said. I think spot these hands were tired.
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  That that's that's for sure. I mean, first it was a chat
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  by going down and then the Skalve Scalveny injury. For me, it was
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  just terrible to see. Again. It's a player that I've I've said on
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  the on the show before. I've liked what he's what he's brought to the
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  table, and it's been so young. But in my opinion being you know,
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  so I had a schedule in terms of development, Uh, it's it's
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  been it's been pretty impressive to watch it. It's just, like I said,
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  just a big shame. Granted, you know, he is twenty years
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  old. We hope that he comes back stronger because these acl injuries we've seen
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  time and time again. You know, these these types of injuries, you
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  you might not bounce back to what you once were. We hope that that's
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  not the case, you know, in its entirety with with Skulvini, because
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  once you get injured like that, you're never you're never going to be a
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  hentred percent. But you hope to get as close as you can to what
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  you once were. So we wish him well, like you said, and
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  yeah, like you mentioned as well, spat the having his hand side a
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  bit with the defense. But I think a lot of them, a lot
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  of these players were, in my opinion, probably Walks if you know,
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  from from the get go. I mean, I know we spoke about it
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  last week and such. You know, the one player that you might cut
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  from the deffense. You know, I think I said, Mancini, I
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  forget if you got who you guys had said, but there was none there.
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  There couldn't have been any. And you know, again, the whole
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  Gatti thing Again for me, I don't think he's a national team player,
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  but listen, he's there. He's going to be, like you said,
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  a role player, a bench player. And again we got a question that
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  we probably can touch on a later on our Instagram at the culture guys speaking
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  about formation. You know, again, who knows what formation spelled you will
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  ultimately choose or go with. But I think having the flexibility of like you
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  said, having enough defenders or enough center backs for that matter, if he
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  decides to go up with a three back or he changes to a four back
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  and in game, you know, having that flexibility as well, I think
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  is going to be key. You know, there's like you said, there's
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  there's nine only nine returning players from the euro winning squad. Fifteen players their
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  first international tournament with Italy at the senior level, so listen, it's it's
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  a big change. But again from the guys you listed in the defense,
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  from from Darmia and all the way to color Fiori and everybody in between,
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  I think, like I said, we're pretty much walks. And I like
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  how there's not only depth in the center backs, but even on the wing
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  backs. Because I'm going to go back on to my point. You know,
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  if we go with the three back or sorry, Spiletti chooses to go
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  out with a three back or a four back, there's depth on each of
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  those positions from from the left, from the left flank to the right flank,
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  you know, if it be if it be Di Marco Cambiaso or if
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  it be you know, Di Lorenzo Bellanova or even Darmian for that matter,
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  he can play both. So what I like about the defense is that is
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  that flexibility. You know, it has always been known for for you know,
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  their defense and we've had that, you know, that title for for
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  a long time. And you know, last last time around, we had
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  two veterans. Unfortunately, I don't think there's one you know, veteran that
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  can really take on that you know, kil we need maybe Bucci type of
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  role. But same time, I think as a collective unit, they've shown
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  that, you know, they've gone along and they can they can work together
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  and play together. So I'm excited to see how that pans out. You
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  know, we need to be rock solid at the back, and it starts
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  with these players. Yeah. Yeah, and it's a young group, but
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  I do like this group a defense I really do. I think this is
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  probably Italy's strongest group outside of maybe goalkeeper. You know, and and this
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  is maybe if you asked me six months ago, I would have been a
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  bit unsure with Italy's defending. You know, look in the season the Califi
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  already had, how Bostoni's continued to grow, even de Marshall, even Darmia
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  and he's had a good season. Yeah, but Jordano of course. Uh
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  so, Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited for to see what they do.
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  They might have to pull up pull off Italy two thousand and six,
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  only allowing two goals all tournament if they want to want to be one being
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  an on goal, one being an own goal on the other appenalty. Yeah,
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  exactly. Midfield Barella for Taisy Georgino PELGRENI, Cristante Fajoli and full of
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  Roun show. I think this is where we start to get question because no
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  disrespect to Michael Fuller roon show, but what exactly has he done to prove
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  his spot on this team? Is it just the fact that Splitty wanted a
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  quota of midfielders, But then you could have called up Ricci. You know,
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  I know, people today were talking about Localatelly whatever, you know,
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  you know, whatever you wanna say about Localatelly. Uh, he wasn't on
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  the thirty man roster, so I'm not even gonna I'm not even gonna talk
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  about him. You know, we talked about him last week, but like
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  I tweeted today, like Fuller roon, show's only here because he scored a
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  nice goal against Juve and and Splett. He probably liked that, you know.
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  But like again, he's probably just a depth player, you know.
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  But it's interesting because he has zero he has zero appearances for the national team.
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  So where exactly has he proven that he deserves on this team? This
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  one baffles me. You know, he's gonna be wearing number twenty six at
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  the tournament, so it goes to show he's really the last man on the
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  roster, you know, out of twenty six. But yeah, it's interesting.
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  It's I don't think it's a very strong group. It's not a very
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  deep group. You know, you have what seven one, two, three,
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  four, seven seven, Yeah, even you know, even Georgino being
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  there, I'm not convinced. Maybe it's just it's a bias of him missing
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  the last couple of penalties in those big games for Italy. Of course I
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  like Burrella, but you know, he has a bit of an injury problem
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  right now. For Tessie obviously is a good plug. Green. I'm excited
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  to see him. He's a player that missed out on the Euros three years
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  ago with an injury, so you know, maybe he has a chip on
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  my shoulder. Uh. Fajoli obviously missing the whole season doesn't help, But
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  I think this is a talent, a talented player who you know. I
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  think if you're going to talk about making cuts to the midfield, he's probably
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  not the first name you're you're mentioning. You're gonna mention full Unco first,
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  you know, and then and then if you cut full Aruncro, you have
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  six myths. So what you want to cut Fugoli just because Okay, maybe
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  maybe some of you fans will say, Okay, bring Locatelli instead of Honestly,
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  I'd rather bring Fajoli. He's he's a dynamic player and and that's what
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  they need in the midfield. They have, you know, they have a
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  Locatelli type player in Christante, who who's gonna play deeper, who plays that
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  role? He plays it really well, he played great in the game.
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  Was it a against Turkey? When did they plan on Tuesday? He he
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  almost scored, hit the posts, he made a couple of nice passes.
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  Uh, and I think he's very underrated Christante. So yeah, I'm you
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  know, I'm excited to see exactly how this group is gonna line up,
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  especially the first game, you know, depending what's happening with Brella. I'm
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  not uh, this is not, this is not you know Euro the Euro
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  twenty twenty midfield that rotated four guys basically and dominated. They were amaz in
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  that midfield. And you know, we'll see with Burrella how you know how
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  much this injury affects him. I think the next man up really is.
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  It depends if they want to start for Tezi or if he's a bench guy.
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  But maybe maybe with pel Greene. I want to see more of Georgina
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  though. I want to see Euro twenty twenty Georgino. I want to see
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  a guy who's going to create plays, be dynamic, bring the ball up.
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  You know, if you have Christante as one deep blne midfielder, you
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  need Georgino as your as your as your playmaker, and you need Burrella as
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  a playmaker slash runner. So uh, you know they need to work as
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  a group. This is if they're going for three men midfielder midfield, which
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  the most likely are. But yeah, I don't know, Adrew, what
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  do you think? Yeah, for me, question marks all over. I
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  mean I know, uh, you know, we we said it in the
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  past, you know, even dating back to pre Euro twenty twenty. You
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  know, midfield we were saying midfield is our strongest was our strongest you know
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  position group. Uh, you know, we had so many guys coming in
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  and you know, I think it's unfortunate the whole Tonawi situation. I would
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  have loved to have seen him here, uh in this tournament. Uh you
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  know, you're just stepping into his into his into his form, into his
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  prime of prime years. So again that's unfortunate. But you know, we
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  already knew that was it wasn't going to be. We hope, uh you
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  know, if it will be qualified for you know a couple twenty twenty six,
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  he can be a key figure there. But you know, I guess
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  gone through the days of you know, rewind On Veerati in the midfield,
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  right, So for me, I think it's gonna be Bardella Georgino duo in
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  the midfield. I personally think they'll they'll go to two uh because in my
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  am my a my ideal or maybe not ideal, but just in my head,
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  I've been like really holed in on this, on this on this three
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  four two one uh formation. So I think they would go there. If
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  they go to three, I mean they have options. But again, like
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  not convincing seven guys. We hope for nothing to go wrong. There's gonna
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  be a lot of guys in there that need to step up. I need
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  to to really show why they were called and chosen by Spiletti. Like not
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  a lot of the experience in terms of international play, which is fine,
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  that's not that's not the biggest issue for me. But I I just hope
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  the quality is there, you know, because right now it doesn't convince me
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  over the top, Like I think I know kind of like where we're gonna
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  how we're gonna line up in terms of you know, we all know that
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  it's gonna be the pecking order goes from Baralla, Georgino, you know,
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  Fats Pella, Greene. I think those are like the four, you know,
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  inter twenty ones after that Fuller, runtrol I fa Jolie. Uh.
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  You know, I'm not convinced. I don't think either of them. I
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  don't know in an ideal world, in a in a situation where you know
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  there there there aren't certain guys missing, I don't think these guys made the
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  team. But again they have all to prove. We didn't think, you
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  know, maybe a guy Prisina was going to be anything last time around,
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  and you know he scored two big goals for us, you know, the
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  tournament, So again, anything is possible in tournament football. The only thing
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  I'm gonna go back on on Spiletti for is that I remember at the very
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  beginning he really made it clear that, you know, he wanted to make
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  selections based on merit. There's some guys on this on this call up west
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  Nick that I don't know if it's really merit based, you know, only
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  the guy named Marette, only the guy named Marett. Is is it funny
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  enough? The guy Maret is not merit based on the team, right,
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  So that's like trying to say that ten times fast. But nevertheless, I
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  think it's it's it's a bit strange. I don't know, if you know,
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  obviously maybe spoilt you know, something that we don't. I really don't
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  know. People are gonna ask does he does like it does? I mean
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  if people are gonna ask us what you know? Oh why is for ron
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  for their wise a joy there guys like I don't know, like we don't
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  know the answer to that. Like there's just something that you know, maybe
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  he saw but you saw, you know, if it be in these trainings,
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  if it be uh you know, in the in these friendlies, you
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  know, just in just at COVERD channel, whatever it may be that that
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  we don't know. I mean, I think I think there are profiles.
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  I forget the names like full Run. I think the profiles are are are
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  decent. I think, like you know, they have decent profile, like
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  in terms of quality. But is it enough to say, you know,
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  you're you're donning the you know, the the AJI shirt in a in an
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  international tournament, like I don't know. For me, that's where I kind
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  of I mean disarray with that. But you know, we want to maybe
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  how I was saying, I don't know if it was last week or a
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  handful of weeks ago, whatever it was, but you know, you want
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  to maybe experience in this midfield Like I think one of vent twitter was was
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  was was a name that could have been called? Unfortunately he wasn't. So
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  I'm gonna follow your lead there, Nick and say he wasn't on the thirty
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  like Local Taw he wasn't. There's no really much more, you know,
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  point of talking about him? Are these players again unless something does happen from
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  now until until the fourteenth and you know they have to make a switch,
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  which could could you know very well happened. But at the same time,
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  this is what we have. These are the twenty six guys. This is
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  what we're we're previewing, this is what we're criticizing and talking about. But
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  yeah, I don't know. For me, it's just I'm hopeful, but
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  at the same time, like I need them to prove to prove us wrong
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  or prove us you know right, or however you want to say it.
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  But it's a strange one for me. But again, there is some flexibility
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  in terms of in terms of the players, like I didn't think you needed
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  ten midfielders, but again seven you're cutting you're cutting it, you know,
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  a bit short. Because again we're going to go back on to the formation
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  thing like depending what formation we play. Like pell Greeney can play multiple positions,
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  right Like, he can play in that three man midfield, he can
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  play as a turd cortista. He can play kind of you know, winger
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  or you know, in that two behind the behind the number nine. So
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  I think the flexibility is good in terms of that. You know, we
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  have our holding midfielders, we have our box to box guys. But I
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  still think they need to prove, you know, that they're that they're off
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  quality. And but at the end of the day, once once that first
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  game you know, goes off and these players touch the pitch, I think
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  all these criticisms might go out the window just for our joy of the tournament
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  coming back. But uh, yeah, I'm excited. But at the same
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  time, like I said, need to prove. Yeah, you're talking about
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  profiles. If there's anything going for the runto's wait, the times I have
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  seen him play the season, he looks just like a physical specimen. Yeah,
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  he looks you know, so he's the type of guy if they you
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  know, don't get the extra time in in the knockout rounds, you bring
• 21:57
  him up, probably won't to see the pitch in uh, in the group
• 22:03
  stage, but we'll see, we'll see. Uh and then forwards, give
• 22:07
  us, give us about what an hour and now and a half to talk
• 22:10
  about this. Agree maybe maybe too, Retegi, Respiradori, Keiskama, Kanyel
• 22:17
  Sawi, and the big name off the list, Ricardo or Selini. This
• 22:22
  is a name that we all thought was a lock and we talked about it
• 22:26
  last week. Okay, who's getting cut between Za, Kanye and Elo and
• 22:30
  it's or Selini. And this this I'm the most disappointed in because when Spiletti
• 22:36
  talks about merit based callups, this guy deserved it one hundred percent. He
• 22:44
  had an amazing season. What was it ten goals for Sicily I forget exactly
• 22:52
  was he was? He on some of our team of the seasons so it
• 22:56
  was like he was on honorable mentions. I think, yeah, there you
• 22:59
  go. Good what good enough for the culture guys, but not good enough
• 23:02
  for Spalletti, Like come on, come on, And you know, I
• 23:07
  just feel bad for him. I seriously do, because he's I think he's
• 23:11
  like twenty seven years old, he's entering into the prime of his career.
• 23:14
  He's not going to get many opportunities. Who knows if he'll even have an
• 23:17
  opportunity in two years if it'llly goes to the World Cup. This was his
• 23:22
  season. He you know, it feels like they were promoting him so much,
• 23:26
  especially ahead of the game in Bologna. I don't know. Something must
• 23:30
  have happened to convince Spalletti otherwise. And this is this is one where if
• 23:37
  Italy bows out early and doesn't score enough, this is exactly the thing everyone's
• 23:42
  going to criticize leaving Orsolini off this team. If Italy goes on and win
• 23:48
  the tournament, nobody, no one's gonna talk about this. But you know,
• 23:53
  part of me does want to say, okay, trusting the coach,
• 23:57
  trusting the process, let's see see the results first before you know, coming
• 24:03
  up with any criticisms. But at the same time, we have seen the
• 24:06
  results from Orcelini. That's what was frustrating. He's had an amazing season.
• 24:11
  And yeah, I'm you know, I hate to say it, I really
• 24:15
  do, Adiannel, but if there's an injury, I don't want to say
• 24:22
  I hope there's an injury, but there I went there to be a way
• 24:27
  that Orcelini plays with Italy in this tournament, you know, that's all I'm
• 24:33
  saying I'm not wishing injury injury on anybody. Don't don't twist my words,
• 24:37
  but I hope if in case there is, he's the first man up,
• 24:41
  because you look, you look back two years ago, Italy had to to
• 24:45
  change to make two changes before the opener. Sinci and PELGRENI were both we're
• 24:52
  both injured. And then in came Casina and cash Revelly. Cash Revelli didn't
• 24:55
  really do much all tournament. I think he played once. Passina scored two
• 24:59
  goals. So maybe, you know, sometimes those injuries are a blessing,
• 25:02
  a blessing in disguise. You know, even he looked back, Okay,
• 25:06
  this is a bit different, but you look back two thousand and six,
• 25:07
  when Nessa gets hurt, Matarazzi comes in, he had you know, he
• 25:11
  gets his red card, and then Barzagli comes in, and then Mattarazzi comes
• 25:15
  back, scores the goal in the final draws the red card, scores on
• 25:19
  a penalty. So you know, sometimes an injury opens the door for someone
• 25:23
  else. But yeah, you know, regarding all the other players, you
• 25:29
  know, between el shar owns A Khani, I would have thought it would
• 25:33
  be Zakeny. You know, even even if you want to mention RESPIRATORI but
• 25:37
  again he's an appolely guy. He split the guy, so I feel like
• 25:41
  splect he had a bit of favoriteism in that sense. Obviously. You know,
• 25:45
  for me, the locks are obviously Reta, Gi Kis and Skamaka.
• 25:48
  People are on Twitter today were saying Kiza didn't really deserve it, which in
• 25:52
  a way I do agree, but he's just one of those players. He
• 25:56
  does have the talent, that's the thing. He does have the talent sometimes
• 26:00
  just needs to put it together. He's had a very up and down season.
• 26:03
  He finished strong, so at least he did that. But you know,
• 26:07
  people are criticizing al I think he did enough this season to to to
• 26:11
  merit this. Obviously, Orsselini is better than Chai ends at Canye. That's
• 26:17
  why you really would have thought at least one of those would get cut.
• 26:22
  But it's just frustrating, it really is it. Really it almost have no
• 26:27
  faith now, not not in the team on the field, just in the
• 26:30
  coach himself. That's it. So I'm gonna for for me, it's it's
• 26:36
  it's obviously a world wind of emotion. I agree on the Orselni thing.
• 26:41
  I mean at the end of the day. I don't know. It's hard
• 26:44
  to really, It's gonna be hard to say that. You know, I'm
• 26:47
  gonna maybe counter your point or play you know, the other side a bit.
• 26:51
  But you know, if with Orcelini there or not, depending how Italy
• 26:56
  you know, performs, I don't know if it's based off of him,
• 27:00
  that would would have changed the whole dynamic of our attack. But he could
• 27:06
  have added more than I think some of these guys that got called up in
• 27:11
  the attack, you know, would have. So for me last week,
• 27:15
  I picked Zakhani that I thought would get cut because for me, you know,
• 27:18
  I'm sticking in the back of my man in the back of my mind,
• 27:22
  you know, Uh, merit based call ops, you know really Uh
• 27:26
  you know Julian home what it means to wear the Adzudi shirt. Uh.
• 27:30
  You know, Spiletti bringing in you know whereas a five former number tens I
• 27:36
  taught to the Piero Baggio, uh Rivera Antonioni to kind of really tell these
• 27:41
  players and show these payers what it's about. I'm pretty sure Soleni was was
• 27:45
  paying attention. Maybe he wasn't. Maybe that's why he got cut. I
• 27:48
  don't know. Like for me, it doesn't make sense, Like, you
• 27:51
  know, a player that has had his best, I think, his best
• 27:53
  season of his life, you know, helping guide Bonia also into aappings league.
• 28:00
  I mean, we all know it was a lot of moving parts in
• 28:03
  the whole in the house scenario, but or Sony played up, played up,
• 28:06
  played a role, and you know, he gets he gets the surprise
• 28:11
  cut. And imagine we only needed to make three cuts because we were down
• 28:14
  to twenty nine guys anyways, right, so I was shocked to see one
• 28:18
  of them being We already knew one of them was going to be the keeper.
• 28:22
  So realistically, there was only two guys we had to cut because we
• 28:26
  knew one of them was going to be the keeper because they were not taking
• 28:30
  four keepers. Uh, and we already got hit with the injury bug a
• 28:33
  bit, so we were down to basically only two cuts. So really it
• 28:37
  was a Ricci or I mean, I guess a lot of people probably thought
• 28:41
  it might have been a Ricchi, Fu l Unco or Fa Joy, so
• 28:44
  one of those guys and somebody else. Unfortunately, the somebody else was a
• 28:49
  player that had the best season of his life in Ricardo Orsolini. So for
• 28:55
  me, it's still head scratching. You're telling me that he couldn't beat the
• 28:57
  odds on one cut because we all we already were able to put the put
• 29:02
  the pieces together to to know that it was only basically, well, i'm
• 29:06
  gonna say two, but realistically only one, because we knew it was gonna
• 29:10
  either be like I said, full un for jo or or RICHI. It's
• 29:14
  a it's a shame, uh for for that. I feel for him because
• 29:18
  again I don't know, like you said, I don't know if the opportunity.
• 29:22
  I'm hoping the opportunity is there for him in two years. I'm hoping.
• 29:26
  I'm hoping that he under now noway appointed, he gets something else out
• 29:32
  of a guy of course Sulini that can that can prove his worth. But
• 29:36
  it's just a shame. You know, a season of your life really had,
• 29:40
  uh you know, a positive, positive year and in a in a
• 29:45
  tournament season, international tournament season, still didn't make the cut. There's not
• 29:52
  really much more words to say. It's just it's just really unfortunate. Uh.
• 29:56
  This is a player that I think has has gone really under the radar.
• 29:59
  He had a want to hype early early on in his career was supposed
• 30:03
  to be that next talent. I don't know if he ever really kind of
• 30:07
  like a Varadi, I don't know if they ever really reached maybe the next
• 30:10
  level. But I think they've had solid you know in between, you know,
• 30:15
  good and great player like that in between. I think they've been solid
• 30:19
  to to to hopefully merit a call up to Italy the national team, but
• 30:23
  already got his opportunity. Unfortunately a guy like Orsini didn't. Yeah for me
• 30:30
  again, I think that was the biggest talking point amongst all a duty fans
• 30:33
  and all Italians like all over, because that's all I was seeing, Where's
• 30:37
  Orcelni? What the hell or so is not there? Again? I think
• 30:42
  I agree with all that. I don't on the on the flip side,
• 30:45
  I don't think it's a make or break that if he's there, we're winning,
• 30:48
  if he's not, we're losing type of thing. But he could have
• 30:52
  helped. He could have definitely helped, especially just having that flexibility on on
• 30:56
  on the wings or however they wanted to put up you know, set up
• 30:59
  and play uh in the attack, you know, going to the rest of
• 31:03
  the players. Again, whoever we're saying Keza is not shouldn't be there.
• 31:08
  Once once he hits the pitch and once he made like once he scores a
• 31:11
  goal, people are all gonna go fucking come in their pasts. They're gonna
• 31:15
  go fucking bananas again. They're gonna they're gonna say, oh, kiez oh,
• 31:19
  kiez oh, Kisa, we love you. But just before you were
• 31:23
  saying talking about him, listen, I'm not on the fucking big bandwagon of
• 31:27
  Kieza, but I do like him as a player. Uh, he's he's
• 31:32
  itways best. He's one of IT always best, better attackers and on his
• 31:37
  day maybe one of maybe it's best player. So for me, he's that
• 31:41
  was a walk. I'm happy that it came to the point where we didn't
• 31:48
  have to leave off one of ORTEGI I think I'm glad to see them both
• 31:52
  there. I think they both deserve to be there. People are gonna say,
• 31:55
  Otegy, you know what, the score not even teng goals and said,
• 31:57
  yeah, he's a bomb, he's this, he's that, this guy
• 32:00
  as soon as he put on the the Azuri blue his course. So I'm
• 32:07
  hoping to see more of that come the tournament. I mean, if we're
• 32:10
  gonna go back to what we saw against Turkey. We're gonna start smashing tables.
• 32:15
  But he's he's he's really embraced, you know, the Italian, the
• 32:22
  Italian life, the Italian speaking a bit of the language. You know.
• 32:25
  He's he's passionate, he's hungry, he wants to play, he wants to
• 32:29
  score. So I'm happy to see him there. Skamaka then didn't start off
• 32:32
  the season well, finished strong. Like I said last week, it's not
• 32:37
  about you know, how you starts, how you finish, and you know
• 32:39
  Scamak as an example of that this season. I'm just hoping that that can
• 32:43
  carry over to to the to the tournament. You know. El Shadawi,
• 32:46
  I think I saw somewhere I forget. I think it was one of our
• 32:49
  comments and when I posted, you know, the call was I forget who.
• 32:52
  It was so part of me there, but they were saying he called
• 32:57
  up, what is this twenty fifteen? And it's kind of funny because he's
• 33:00
  somewhow, some way kind of still has the same haircut as twenty fifteen.
• 33:02
  But listen, I think he's he's obviously a depth piece. I think he's
• 33:08
  a he's a player that that we've seen either under Mourinho or under de ROSSI
• 33:15
  is willing to do what it takes. Uh, whatever role he's going to
• 33:19
  be there, he's gonna he's gonna fight. So for me, the work
• 33:22
  ethic is there. Obviously he still has some talent. He can score,
• 33:25
  he can provide the sists. So you know, in terms of that pecking
• 33:30
  order, I think for me and I and I liked him in previous seasons,
• 33:34
  but for me, this season, if we're going back on these words
• 33:37
  merit based call ups, for me, Zakanyi was the worst in terms of
• 33:40
  all these guys attacking wise. And I know all the lats are gonna come
• 33:45
  at us and say, oh, you guys are crazy, you guys are
• 33:46
  singing players. BBB guys, You're gonna have to take off the Watcho Cup
• 33:52
  a bit because I don't know. For me that I don't remember the stats,
• 33:57
  so maybe I'm wrong, so proof to me that I'm wrong. But
• 34:00
  me Zakani did not have the Zakoni year that he had. It would be
• 34:04
  last season or the season before. Even in his house Verona DA's it's it
• 34:07
  wasn't the same as a Kanya this year, which is fine because Respidora didn't
• 34:10
  have a RESPIRADORI season as well. But I think for me, I think
• 34:17
  Respirador is a bit more flexible in terms of position. Even though I don't
• 34:22
  think he will need to play as a nine, he could play as a
• 34:24
  nine, he can play as he can play on the wing, uh in
• 34:29
  that supporting role Zakani, I think he's only really locked to the right wing
• 34:35
  or left wing whatever it is. So again, I don't know, but
• 34:42
  maybe maybe we're talking crazy, but that's how I that's how I see it.
• 34:45
  If I would have had to have picked somebody just based off this season
• 34:49
  for me or Sun, he was clear of both those guys for that matter,
• 34:52
  even all three if we're really talking, you know, calling a spade
• 34:54
  a spade or SOUNI. This year's season was better than I shout that he
• 34:59
  was better than and was better than us. Unfortunately, one of those guys
• 35:02
  had to get the boots, and surprisingly enough, it was the guy who
• 35:07
  had the better, the best season out of the three of them. So
• 35:10
  who else is there that? That's pretty much it. I think Isa is
• 35:15
  a lot for me, and I spoke about our two number nines. Maybe
• 35:20
  I don't know, And then you know, like I said earlier, we
• 35:22
  couldn't even maybe throw in Pelgrene into that mix because he's again, he's flexible.
• 35:27
  The only thing I won't knock about Spalletti is that a lot of these
• 35:30
  players are pretty flexible in terms of positions. Because we'll get into it later.
• 35:36
  But whatever formation gets chosen and gets you know, used more frequently,
• 35:43
  you know, we have players that can kind of you know, mix and
• 35:45
  matching and go in different different areas and still be productive. So for that,
• 35:50
  I'm not gonna knock him. But for some of these uh, non
• 35:54
  merit based call ups, it's a bit head scratching. But again, like
• 35:59
  we said with UH with my Chini, even though he forgot to wear his
• 36:04
  glasses on a call up list, we forgive him, you know so,
• 36:07
  and he brought us, you know, a EUROD title. I'm not saying
• 36:12
  we're gonna do the same hopefully, but I'm gonna put my trust in and
• 36:15
  faith and SPOETI. I know a lot of people are gonna go against that
• 36:20
  because of the call up with today, but you know, we need to
• 36:23
  be positive, like we said to opening the show, we need to be
• 36:27
  positive rather than negative. I'm sticking with that course of action. Un why
• 36:30
  something really hits the fan where it's like a complete embarrassment, which knock on
• 36:35
  what doesn't happen put accordingly? But overall, uh, you know, I
• 36:43
  don't know, maybe a grade, maybe we should give give a grade,
• 36:45
  like I don't know if you have a grade or a wetter value. B.
• 36:52
  Yeah, B. I'm gonna go just be or be positive minus or
• 36:58
  be Okay, I'm gonna go. They do be terrible, they do be
• 37:05
  terrible. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go B plus. I'm gonna go
• 37:12
  be plus. It's a bit of a bit above you. I was gonna
• 37:14
  go a minus, but I'll go be plus because for the most part,
• 37:21
  I think we we we kind of knew these players, like what players were
• 37:23
  gonna be there again, hands were tied in certain cases. We said it
• 37:27
  okay, fine, But if we have to give a grade, Nick gives
• 37:30
  a B. We didn't ask Johnny this question, so we'll have to maybe
• 37:32
  get back to you guys on that. But for me, it's gonna be
• 37:35
  a B plause just because, like I said, the flexibility is there a
• 37:37
  lot of the cops that we thought were gonna be called up or stay on
• 37:42
  the call with Stayed. I think the biggest dent is obviously the Orsolini cut
• 37:52
  and hm the we're not sure why Fullaruntro and maybe Fajulia is in this team,
• 37:58
  so for need to be pas nick its be guys, let us know.
• 38:04
  Let us know. I don't know if this is gonna get quipped,
• 38:07
  but let us know you're great for for the Azuri call up list. Yeah,
• 38:12
  like I said, N give a be I give a b PWAs let
• 38:14
  us know we'd like to hear from you. Uh, I'm just gonna read
• 38:17
  some reaction online. Belbrini or Slni cut is weird medeed Staying also favoritism Provadel
• 38:22
  played way better season. Uh Delgadio Leone Orcelini should be there in Catana.
• 38:30
  Getting out of the group will be a miracle. Lombi eagle, not one
• 38:36
  ac Milan player and coach upundit. There must be something more to it,
• 38:39
  because because Orcelini missing out after having a season, that makes no logical sense.
• 38:45
  Uh so pretty much ah what we said, and then uh yeah we
• 38:50
  did. We did get a question on social media about from Mora eleven what
• 38:54
  formation suits best for this Italy team. We'll just answer that shortly. But
• 39:00
  you know, I just I'm just looking at the roster. I think they
• 39:01
  officially published the numbers adri so you know, if you're a numbers guy,
• 39:07
  this is some surprising numbers. Brella is gonna be wearing number six actually,
• 39:12
  so he's moving on from his eighteen. Fojoli's got his old eighteen. Uh.
• 39:19
  Looking from the guys from that played in the last tournament, I think
• 39:22
  he's kept his fourteen. Christante kept his sixteen obviously, Donor Ruma, Donor
• 39:28
  Ruma, he were twenty one, he was twenty one, right, yeah.
• 39:32
  He took the number one this time, number one. Yeah, so
• 39:36
  he took the number twenty one. Morett got the twenty one this year he
• 39:39
  got the number one, got number one. Ye yeah, yeah, I
• 39:43
  said, morettt twenty one. Yeah deal. Lorenzeo kept his two. Georgino
• 39:49
  kept the number eight obviously Red Tigee with the number nine, number ten Pelgreeney,
• 39:52
  which not too surprising, he's worn it before. Raspdori, I think
• 39:55
  he was I want to say, no, he wasn't eating. Was he
• 40:00
  twenty two? I think it was twenty two? Yeah, yeah, I
• 40:05
  think you're right. Oh, I actually have the list right here. Casino
• 40:08
  was twelve, yeah, yeah, Restirat he was twenty two, so he's
• 40:13
  he's eleven this year, so he cuts it right in half. Darmian with
• 40:16
  the thirteen, pretty ugly number. He's he's the guy. He's the only
• 40:20
  guy in this list who's pleaded in the World Cup. True Mateo Darmian ten
• 40:24
  years ago he played at the old Cup. Uh and then Scamaka seventeen.
• 40:30
  I would have which is interesting. I would have rather given the nine two
• 40:34
  Sukamaka, to be honest, it looks better on him, but you know,
• 40:37
  at the end of the day, it's numbers. He gets Hiro's number
• 40:39
  right, and then Retegie gets a Blatti's old number, and then Zy twenty,
• 40:45
  Belanova gets it from Benucci nineteen h yeah, and then Eltra a we
• 40:49
  twenty two? What was that the number he used to wear or he used
• 40:52
  to wear a lower Then he used to wear fourteen back in the day for
• 40:57
  the national team. Yeah, he had remember if it was a Friendli's call
• 41:02
  op or or if it was I don't remember what it was for, but
• 41:07
  yes, he did wear the fourteen at one point. I think you've also
• 41:09
  worked even more the eleven later on his career. I feel like I've seen
• 41:14
  him in twenty two. But so yeah, and also one thing I did
• 41:19
  want to say. Also, you know, looking you know at our reaction
• 41:23
  today, you think back three years ago, we didn't have this discussion when
• 41:29
  the when the team was announced, we knew who was going to be there,
• 41:32
  you know, Mancini did that. Obviously, it doesn't help that split
• 41:37
  the he's had less than a year as coach, but we knew based on
• 41:40
  previous games and everything. It was the same. It was the same group
• 41:45
  that carried through under Mancini under the time that he was there. Obviously,
• 41:47
  Okay, a couple of injuries here and there, he think it was a
• 41:50
  yolo as one, but there was no surprises. Three years ago, this
• 41:55
  was that was a tight group. Everyone knew whatformation they played, knew who's
• 42:00
  gonna be there, and obviously, okay, besides the injuries, there were
• 42:02
  no there was no surprises. So it is frustrating with all these uh I
• 42:06
  guess some of these surprises, but yeah, formation, uh, you know,
• 42:09
  thanks again more eleven for that question. Honestly, I know you say,
• 42:15
  you know, what'd you would you say? The four four three four
• 42:19
  four two one I think they'll kind of stick with what they win against Turkey,
• 42:22
  kind of like a four three three four two three one type depending where
• 42:27
  if depending on Pelgren he plays, I think he could be a bit more
• 42:30
  of attacking role versus if for Tess plays he he stays back, it's more
• 42:35
  four three three. I just don't think they have enough enough uh wing back
• 42:40
  or sorry, center back depth to go through to the back, unless,
• 42:44
  of course, you know, like you said, guys like Darmian and California
• 42:49
  Califioti they can play either wing back or center backs, so you know,
• 42:53
  right now they have what five true center backs, So I'm not convinced they'll
• 42:57
  go three at the back. I kind of like for the back, I
• 43:00
  think they have a lot of depth for that. And obviously like guys like
• 43:05
  de Lorenzo DeMarco, they they already they they do play well in that formation.
• 43:09
  Obviously DeMarco he plays more in a five back system. But de Lorenzo's
• 43:14
  he's done this monopoly obviously under Spiletty. He did it, yeah at the
• 43:17
  Euros three years ago in a four back system. So you know he's he's
• 43:22
  a player I trust back there. I'm sure he's going to start, Yeah,
• 43:25
  and then you know, in terms of the attack, like you know,
• 43:31
  I'm I'm not convinced that like having two wingers and a striker is what
• 43:37
  is what they're going to do. I wouldn't be surprised if they kind of
• 43:39
  go more like you know, let's say Kisa with uh, let's say let's
• 43:45
  skate, let's say Scamaka. But then maybe maybe Paul Greeni does play kind
• 43:49
  of like on the wing, kind of behind them. You know, it's
• 43:52
  not gonna be like what we saw three years ago, where you have a
• 43:54
  perfect left winger and a perfect right winger. You know who who is going
• 43:58
  to play on that right side. Serious should have been Arcelloni. It should
• 44:00
  have been Arsllini exactly. So that's why I'm not convinced, Uh, there's
• 44:05
  someone there, because even El Shawai, he he plays more on the left.
• 44:07
  Right him and Kenny they play more on the left. I mean,
• 44:10
  I'm sure they can play on the right. So I think the attack is
• 44:14
  for me, is is more of a question. Maybe they they do kind
• 44:16
  of two forwards playing off each other. Maybe Kaysa plus like I said,
• 44:21
  Skamaka, But again, I don't like keys in the in the four role.
• 44:23
  He's a left winger. You saw that at Uve. So for me,
• 44:28
  it's the fours. I have a lot of questions, you know,
• 44:30
  if you know, if I have to name a starting eleven today, I
• 44:32
  probably go don Ruma, DeMarco. Uh even center back, who would you
• 44:38
  GOONI? Yeah, or even California and Bistoni, but probably not. I
• 44:46
  prefer Boniorno and BOSTONI and then and then the Lorenzo on the right side.
• 44:52
  You know, mid midfield, you obviously got Georgino, Pellegrini and Burrella healthy
• 44:59
  Burrella, I think that's a really I think that's a solid midfield, you
• 45:01
  know where it You know, when there's more question, it's whether you want
• 45:06
  to go on more of an attack mode with Pelgreene and hopefully again Burrell is
• 45:09
  healthy by the first game. And again for the front three, who knows
• 45:15
  why not? Maybe maybe they could go for Taisy, Georgino and and Burrella
• 45:22
  and the three have Pelgreeni behind like let's say Skamaka and Quiza or rete gen
• 45:28
  Kiza. Who knows that. So again that that one's a bit harder,
• 45:31
  but it'll be interesting to see that that first eleven against Albania. Oh,
• 45:36
  Yeah, everybody's gonna have their eyes piels for that. We already know.
• 45:38
  Like every time there's there's a there's an a game, everybody's looking for the
• 45:43
  starting eleven and everybody was right on their keyboards. They're ready, they're ready
• 45:46
  to type, oh my god, what's this formation? Why do these selections?
• 45:51
  Everybody's ready to go. So I think this will be no, no
• 45:54
  different. But yeah, no, for the question, like we've been speaking
• 45:59
  about it for a little bit now, and I feel like we're going to
• 46:00
  continue to speak it until until the tournament starts, and maybe even into the
• 46:04
  tournament for that matter. But formation, I just think, uh, you
• 46:09
  want to try to you want to try to have your your your top players
• 46:15
  in their suitable positions. And I agree with your point on Kieza because again
• 46:22
  we've said it on the podcast before, people were saying, oh, well,
• 46:28
  they'll just play it three five two and it will be good. I
• 46:30
  mean, but you want to include Kisa on the side in eleven and you
• 46:34
  want to play a three five to two. He was no offense, but
• 46:37
  kind of dog shit for you pointing in that formation like it's not his it's
• 46:40
  not his position. He I don't know, like he's not that in that
• 46:46
  too front like it's not him. I don't I don't see that for that
• 46:50
  matter. Maybe on the international stage is maybe he produces something different. I
• 46:55
  don't know. But for me, he needs his space. I think I
• 47:00
  think he's a We've set it time and time again. He's a he's a
• 47:01
  player that needs just needs that space to take that man on, to beat
• 47:06
  him on the dribble, to create opportunities, to to receive the pass,
• 47:09
  to to to make space to put in up that frough ball, to take
• 47:15
  a shot, to be able to cut in. I think he needs that
• 47:19
  those wings because I think he can put on either side personally left and right.
• 47:23
  So for that there's flexibility there. But if it be on the left
• 47:28
  or be on the right, he has, in my opinion, needs that
• 47:30
  space, uh to to do what he does best. So you know,
• 47:35
  that's why I think I would like to see the three four two one tried
• 47:42
  and hope and I would like to see it work because I think it could.
• 47:45
  You know, in terms of whoever's plainting as the nine, if it
• 47:50
  be or Taggy, I've said it before, whoever it is, it doesn't
• 47:52
  matter. It could be. Uh, it could either or the two guys
• 47:59
  behind them, I think are where these players that are got selected can have,
• 48:04
  can have some fun with and maybe that's when we can maybe change our
• 48:07
  tune because no matter who's at the nine, ideally you want to say it's
• 48:13
  Amaka or some people are gonna say it's Retag he needs to be there.
• 48:15
  I don't. It doesn't matter to me either or it is fine. But
• 48:19
  those two behind that number nine, for me, we have that's where we
• 48:23
  can say, Okay, it's not really they're not really who's gonna play on
• 48:28
  the left and who's gonna play on the right in a four three three or
• 48:30
  on a four to two three one, who's gonna pay on the left,
• 48:32
  who's gonna play the right? Those guys, in my opinion, can be
• 48:36
  a bit more free roaming, a bit more flexible in terms of you know,
• 48:38
  where they receive the ball, where they you know, where they put
• 48:43
  put a foot ball in, where they go out, maybe they go out,
• 48:45
  why come back in and there's players across the board to kind of change
• 48:51
  the negativity about our forwarde into maybe a bit of a positive thing. If
• 48:55
  it be Ks, if it be Pellegrini, if it be Espadori, if
• 49:00
  it be zach Kanny, if it be a Sharawi, I think those guys
• 49:06
  can all kind of you know, work in that in those in our role
• 49:09
  behind, either as Comac or Attegi. So that's why I kind of like
• 49:14
  would like to see the three four two one used and hopefully work. If
• 49:20
  it doesn't and this is all maybe my imagination and too much I see twenty
• 49:24
  four. Okay, guys, I'm guilty. I'm sorry, but I would
• 49:27
  just like to see it work because I think there there isn't a possibility for
• 49:30
  it to work. And to say that, you know our wing backs,
• 49:35
  which I said earlier, you you know the Marco is most effective as that
• 49:39
  left wing back, you know, in a left back position, solely a
• 49:43
  left back position. I think he's still great, But is he the same
• 49:47
  DeMarco that we can get if he's on as a wing back and he kind
• 49:52
  of goes he's darting up and down, up and down, up and down
• 49:54
  on the left flank, and he's putting in a ball, he's he's creating,
• 49:59
  he's is creating on the offensive side, and he's helping to defend on
• 50:02
  on the back end. I think that can that that works best for him,
• 50:07
  that's suited best for him. So my whole point is to have a
• 50:13
  formation that best suits our best players. You know, if it be a
• 50:17
  z A DeMarco, if it be you know Barrella, you know Georgina in
• 50:22
  the midfield, or whoever it may be. I think we need a We
• 50:25
  need to have a formation or formations poral that can be best suited for our
• 50:34
  playmakers, our best players, our most effective players, our quality players going
• 50:37
  forward. So I think what I've liked about Patti is that he has experimented
• 50:43
  a bit in terms of the formation. I don't think we've been rigid on
• 50:45
  the four three three, because at the end of the Manchinierra we were all
• 50:50
  figured out. We knew we were going with the four three three. We
• 50:52
  basically knew who's going to be on that starting eleven. We were hands in
• 50:59
  our head and arm head in hands. When uh, there would be a
• 51:04
  bit of a tweak with the forward trident, Uh why is this guy playing
• 51:08
  here? Why is that guy playing there? But we got stale and we
• 51:12
  got pretty figured out. So what I've liked so far under Spilette is that
• 51:16
  the the uh experimenting and the flexibility has has for the most part been there.
• 51:24
  Small sample size, but it's been there, and I've liked that to
• 51:29
  say that in case something in match, you know, we need to make
• 51:32
  a change on the fly, I'm hoping that he has enough enough brain power
• 51:37
  to make those adjustments in game, if it be of a formation change,
• 51:42
  if it be a substitution, if it be you know, tactic wise,
• 51:45
  whatever it may be, to uh to make these decisions and these changes.
• 51:50
  So yeah, to answer more more eleven's question, I would like the three
• 51:54
  four two one, but I think the flexibility of if it be a four
• 51:59
  three three, if it be a four two three one can also be in
• 52:01
  the back pocket. Because you know you're going to war. You kind of
• 52:06
  don't only want one one game plan. It's good to have an A,
• 52:09
  B, A C game plan, you know, go forbid something happens,
• 52:14
  or something changes or something needs to be changed. So entirely I'm going to
• 52:17
  stick on the on the frame of mind of you know, in SPOETI we
• 52:21
  trust. Last time around it was in MYCINI we trust. So I'm hoping
• 52:24
  that Spoti makes the red calls. And yeah, that's kind of how I
• 52:29
  see it. Picked for joy as the middle, in the middle of this,
• 53:22
  in the middle of this, all in the middle of Orenting. Just
• 53:24
  bring back some memories from here twenty twenty. What a meme, what a
• 53:28
  meme song with a great song. Uh, you know what. I was
• 53:30
  just looking at all them lineups from three years ago, match by match,
• 53:35
  and how much change, you know, looking at the first game, Florenzi
• 53:39
  started on the right side. Obviously he got hurt. Dealer Ronzo comes in,
• 53:45
  doesn't miss missus shift Spinazola gets hurt. What was it the Belgium game.
• 53:49
  Emerson starts in the final, Kiza did not start in the first two
• 53:52
  games, did not even start against Austria, and then he ends up starting
• 53:58
  in the final. Then I know Varati was heard at the beginning of the
• 54:00
  tournament two but obviously look started. But again that was one thing that at
• 54:06
  least Italy had that that depth. So in terms in terms of this tournament,
• 54:09
  you know, I'm sure if Italy goes deep, you know, starting
• 54:15
  players are gonna change and and hopefully then it'll be merit based. But but
• 54:20
  yeah, I do want to talk about the you know. Oh, by
• 54:23
  the way, by the way, Johnny gave yeah B plus just quick B
• 54:28
  plus plus, yeah for his grade. So to B plus is myself and
• 54:32
  Johnny and Nick straight B yeah yeah, so yeah take it take a straight
• 54:37
  from Johnny because he's the teacher. But I do want to give a little
• 54:42
  quick preview or predictions for Italy and in Group B. So they played June
• 54:47
  fifteenth against Albinia. That wins, So that's gonna bring back a lot of
• 54:51
  memories, you know, the famous the famous Grosco goal and the famous del
• 54:55
  Piero bowlders right there, right at the right in Doorman against Germany eighteen years
• 55:00
  ago. And then June twentieth they played Spain and gelsen Kirchen. I hope,
• 55:06
  I said that, right, Richard Carmon, that's against Spain. And
• 55:09
  then June twenty fourth in Leipzig against Croatia. So this is pretty much a
• 55:15
  group of death. Obviously, you know, in this tournament even third place
• 55:20
  teams team can go through depending on results from other you know, from the
• 55:24
  other third place teams. I think it's what top was it? Top four
• 55:30
  out of the six third place teams make it through. But obviously forly you
• 55:35
  want to finish in the top two. But it's gonna be tough just a
• 55:37
  really good teams. You know, Croatia teams like every year we talk about
• 55:42
  they're getting older, you know, this and that, and then look look
• 55:45
  at the look at the World Couples A twenty eighteen they went to the final,
• 55:49
  and then in twenty twenty two did they lose in the semi finals or
• 55:52
  quarterfinals? I forget. I want to say, Sammy's yeah. They you
• 55:57
  know, they just come up with these these this fresh, fresh, fresh
• 56:00
  batch of young players and you know, taking over from the likes of Madris.
• 56:05
  But it's gonna be tough. This, you know, is kind of
• 56:07
  throw back to Euro twenty twelve where they played Spain, Croatia, then Northern
• 56:09
  Ireland, and I think it's kind of gonna go like that tournament where they
• 56:15
  tied Spain, they tied Croatia and then they beat Northern Ireland. I you
• 56:19
  know, it's a bit opposite this time because they start off with Albania.
• 56:22
  So I think this, this is a mus this is a must win.
• 56:25
  It's almost the first game of tournament and it's it's a must win. And
• 56:28
  I'm not even kidding, because if you can't beat Albinia, no disrespect to
• 56:31
  Albania. I know they're a decent team. There's a reason why they're here.
• 56:36
  They're the dark horse in this in this group, for sure, they
• 56:38
  could play Cinderella. But if you don't beat Albania, I don't see how
• 56:43
  they could beat Spain in Croatia. You know they need the three points,
• 56:46
  especially if you want to go through. Even as a third place team,
• 56:50
  this is where you get your points. You three points could go a long
• 56:53
  way. And then I think versus Spain, it's gonna be tough. They've
• 56:59
  not done so well against Spain in recent years. They do well against them
• 57:02
  in the Euros, but then when they play outside the Euros, Spain always
• 57:06
  wins. It feels like they've played each other every single year between Nations League
• 57:09
  and Euros. And so they played was it the semifinals Euro twenty twenty,
• 57:15
  quarterfinals of course, Round of sixteen, Euro twenty sixteen, the final end
• 57:20
  groups age in Euro twenty twenty, in Euro twenty twelve, and the quarterfinals
• 57:23
  in Euro two thousand and eight. So this is gonna be what eighty twelve
• 57:29
  sixth street? No? No, not in twenty ten? No, No,
• 57:32
  they haven't played each other in the World Cup. Gone true, I
• 57:36
  don't know how long, but true, true. I think it's what six
• 57:39
  straight Euros that they play each other, which is just insane. It's gonna
• 57:45
  be tough. Spain's a good team based on what we've seen them against Spain
• 57:52
  in recent games. I'm gonna give Spain the edge in this one. But
• 57:54
  again, Italys had their number in Euros alone, well, at least the
• 58:00
  last two, not so much in twenty twelve and then against Croatia. I
• 58:04
  think, you know, this is probably a game that Italy's gonna go in
• 58:07
  and they'll probably it's not gonna be like the last Euros or even in twenty
• 58:13
  sixteen, where they knew they were gonna go through and they could you know,
• 58:15
  rest them starters. This is probably gonna be a game that maybe they'll
• 58:21
  need a point to go through or even win to go through. So I
• 58:22
  think this game is still gonna count for something, so that one's gonna be
• 58:28
  tougher. If it's if Italy doesn't win, I think it's a draw.
• 58:31
  But I do see I do a scenario. I do see a scenario in
• 58:35
  which Croatia wins too, because they are a good team and you know,
• 58:37
  they have more experience, you know, even at the World Cup. So
• 58:42
  it's gonna be really interesting. Like I said me, versus Albania must win.
• 58:45
  They really adried they If they don't win on June fifteenth, even if
• 58:51
  they get a draw, I'll be disappointed. And especially after all this that
• 58:54
  we've talked about criticize the team selections and that they have to win the other's
• 59:00
  going to be a fire on fire. If that doesn't the other two games,
• 59:04
  it's a bit different. They haven't lost. They haven't lost in the
• 59:08
  group stage even at any euro since they lost to Ireland in twenty and twenty
• 59:15
  sixteen. Because even when they went out to Germany in twenty sixteen, it
• 59:20
  was on twenty's technically not considered a loss. So you know, I don't
• 59:27
  knowing Italy, they'll probably That's why I say they'll probably win and draw two
• 59:30
  games and they'll and they'll go through that way, because I don't know if
• 59:35
  you could go out with five with five, if you've got five points,
• 59:38
  you know it's probably enough to go out even as to go through even as
• 59:40
  third place. So that that's my predictions for the group stage. Yeah,
• 59:45
  so for me, listen, if if if Italy focks around with Albania doesn't
• 59:52
  take them seriously and should hit the fan. And after what we saw today
• 59:55
  just on a base on the call ups, people are already going a bit
• 59:59
  crazy. If something off forbid happens, then it's gonna be game over.
• 1:00:04
  So you know, I totally I'm on board with that. It is a
• 1:00:09
  must win. Guys must win against Albania to start off the tournament. We
• 1:00:15
  were kind of on this similar wavelength last time around. Granted that time it
• 1:00:22
  was in Rome, so we had that home crowd behind us. But again,
• 1:00:28
  they need to win against Albania. There is no two ways about it.
• 1:00:32
  But you said a draw is not going to be enough. You know,
• 1:00:38
  if they go, if they go anywhere besides three points, it's people
• 1:00:45
  are going to get a lot more nervous and it's going to be a lot
• 1:00:47
  more writing on the same game. It's gonna be a lot more writing on
• 1:00:51
  the Croatia game. We can't leave it to the end to hopefully get out
• 1:00:55
  of it, and we can't have in the back of the mind, oh
• 1:00:59
  yeah, we can still finished third and maybe go and go through and and
• 1:01:05
  advance. I think it was like you said earlier, underscore Katana in the
• 1:01:10
  comments of our posts. It'll be a miracle if they get out of the
• 1:01:15
  group. I'm hoping it doesn't take a miracle to get out of this group.
• 1:01:19
  I think if we all know it's going to be a tough group,
• 1:01:22
  I think we all realize and understand that. But it's still doable this you
• 1:01:30
  know, you know Italy is going in there as reigning champions. They need
• 1:01:34
  to defend in the best way possible. In an ideal world when the thing
• 1:01:39
  again, that might not be the case, but again, we want to
• 1:01:44
  go out with pride, if, when, if, and when we do
• 1:01:45
  go out, but it can be in the group, it can be in
• 1:01:51
  the group. They need to get out of this group one way or another.
• 1:01:52
  They need to find a way to get out of the group. And
• 1:01:57
  I'm not like third place for me, it's it's it's not out of the
• 1:02:00
  group like it needs to be one two. It's gonna be tough to win
• 1:02:04
  the group. I think, you know, Spain are probably and I'm pretty
• 1:02:09
  sure almost one nine percent that they'll they're probably the favorites in this In this
• 1:02:15
  group, I think it's a battle for that second spot. Italy claims it
• 1:02:22
  it's it's it's all right, you know, we'll take second place, we'll
• 1:02:23
  get out of the group. But again, Italy needs to get out of
• 1:02:27
  the group. Anything can happen in tournament football. With Italy. Once we
• 1:02:31
  get out of the group, anything is anything as possible, anything is achievable,
• 1:02:36
  anything is attainable. So and anything can happen. So I'm gonna remain
• 1:02:40
  optimistic like I was in twenty twenty one. I'm going to remain optimistic again
• 1:02:47
  now in twenty twenty four for this year addition, and you know we're gonna
• 1:02:52
  have to see it, see it out. But I must win against Albinia
• 1:02:57
  to open the tournament. Is is right on Q And then in the next
• 1:03:04
  two games, like part of me is gonna say, they're gonna go one
• 1:03:07
  one in one, one win, one lost, one draw. Four points
• 1:03:14
  doesn't make it out. We don't know. Ideally, we would like the
• 1:03:19
  one win, two draws. In a realistic uh you know, universe,
• 1:03:24
  you know, pick up a draw against uh Spain in Croatia, take the
• 1:03:30
  three points from Albania and kind of advance that way. Whatever it needs to
• 1:03:35
  be. You guys can do the math. I don't really care how it
• 1:03:37
  gets done. But they need Italy needs to finish in those first two spots.
• 1:03:40
  Ideally, the first spot we'll try to be a bit not you know,
• 1:03:45
  biased and maybe a bit realistic. The first two spots are okay,
• 1:03:49
  So spec second spot is it's it's what it's. It is what it is,
• 1:03:52
  but we'll take it. But you know, I think every game is
• 1:03:58
  you're gonna have. These players gonna have to have than the mentality that it's
• 1:04:00
  it's it's it's a final. Every game is a final. Like you have
• 1:04:04
  three opportunities to get out of this group. You have to make the most
• 1:04:08
  out of these opportunities. And they're gonna have to do it. I don't
• 1:04:14
  know. Again, we can talk all we want to talk about player selection,
• 1:04:16
  formation, tactics, paletti, this, that and the other thing,
• 1:04:20
  but if they don't get it all together, they don't put it all together,
• 1:04:24
  make it right, it's all for no use. So again I'm remaining
• 1:04:28
  optimistic. I'm gonna be hopeful they're gonna get They need to get out of
• 1:04:31
  the group. Bottom line, So you know what if that's going to take
• 1:04:39
  and who that's gonna take is up for debate, But they need to make
• 1:04:43
  it out of the group. I think you're not only going to hear that
• 1:04:45
  from us here on the culture guys, I think you'll hear that wherever else
• 1:04:48
  you're listening to cultural related podcasts at ZUI podcast, anybody that's covering the tournament
• 1:04:54
  or the adjuri uh you know in in just the a duty uh in just
• 1:05:00
  be Edut the topic you're gonna hear from from everybody that's touching anything to do
• 1:05:03
  with culture in this tournament needs to get out of the group. However they
• 1:05:06
  do it. We can all debate, but they need to get out of
• 1:05:11
  the group. Yeah, And I mean there's no point in speculating, you
• 1:05:15
  know, uh, knock around who they going to play this and that.
• 1:05:17
  But if there is a round that you expected to get to, what is
• 1:05:21
  it. I think last time around we said semi finals, we would be
• 1:05:30
  happy again. I expect. I think we all expected we to do big
• 1:05:35
  things and to do great things, and tournament football we're so passionate and we
• 1:05:39
  see that not only here in Montreal, but anywhere there's Italians that we're passionate
• 1:05:45
  or around the world. So we just want, we want these moments and
• 1:05:48
  to enjoy as much as we can in these tournaments. So again, I'm
• 1:05:53
  gonna still stick with the semifinals. At the end of the day. I
• 1:05:56
  think if we bound, if we bow out in the quarters, it's I
• 1:06:01
  don't want to say, okay, but it's you can maybe swallow the pill.
• 1:06:08
  But I would I would, I would aim for semis. I think
• 1:06:14
  even though we were we were going crazy about some of these call ups,
• 1:06:16
  I think there is still quality on the lineup. Uh, in the list
• 1:06:21
  we said it earlier, there is still quality. Obviously some some head scratching
• 1:06:26
  decisions, don't get us wrong, but there is still some quality. So
• 1:06:30
  I'm gonna say semifinals. But yeah, no, I mean, like I
• 1:06:38
  said, get out of the Group Italy, anything can happen. So but
• 1:06:41
  I'm gonna stick with with the semi finals and uh. But again it all
• 1:06:45
  depends, right, There's so there's so many factors like last season last time
• 1:06:49
  around, like did we know that France is gonna get knocked out by Switzerland?
• 1:06:54
  You know, like nobody can predict these things, so it's very very
• 1:06:57
  hard to predict. So I'm not gonna put money on it, but you
• 1:07:01
  know, uh, it's for me. Yeah, semi finals is kind of
• 1:07:05
  where I'll be. I'll be happy with this. It's hard to really judge
• 1:07:10
  because this is Spoetti's first and it's uh so soon after being appointed the national
• 1:07:16
  team manager. So obviously the the expectations are going to be high because we're
• 1:07:21
  going in there as defending champions A rating champions. Sorry, uh so,
• 1:07:27
  the expectation is going to be high, not only on the team, but
• 1:07:30
  Spoletia has two to kind of you know, continue on this this positive because
• 1:07:35
  we went through a bit of a negative after winning the Euros, not making
• 1:07:39
  the World Cup and so on and so forth. But I think the expectations
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  are going to be high. But at the same time, I think we
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  have enough to you know, attain those those objectives and those expectations. So
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  semi finals, I would say, yeah, uh, I'm gonna say quarters.
• 1:08:00
  Yeah, maybe I'm setting expectations a bit low, you know, in
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  case they go further. But my game, So I don't know. Three
• 1:08:09
  years ago we did have higher expectations like we did at the end. I
• 1:08:12
  wasn't surprised Italy won. We knew they could have done it. If you
• 1:08:15
  know, maybe we have to look back on our episodes then maybe we did.
• 1:08:18
  Say se I'm pretty sure a lot of time we did, say semis
• 1:08:21
  or rather even finals, but we'll see, we'll see. Uh. It's
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  hard because on one hand, it's like now we we saw them win,
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  we know that feeling, and we know they're not at that level. But
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  at the end of day, anything could happen, so you never know,
• 1:08:40
  you never know. I think I think next week Adrinal will probably do a
• 1:08:45
  full euro preview with if he's available available, will probably try to get a
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  guest on. But unfortunately, you're not going to be here for the Euros,
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  so this is pretty much your your last game of the season. We'll
• 1:09:00
  see, we'll see, we'll try to make it work. Well, yeah,
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  we'll have to try to make it work. Yeah, but you're so
• 1:09:03
  you're going to Italy. So you're going to Italy. Yeah, I enjoy
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  it. Enjoy it, Enjoy the crowds watching the games, Enjoy that opportunity,
• 1:09:14
  enjoy the feeling. You know. You think back some of the guests
• 1:09:15
  we've had on, they've told us they were in they were in Uh,
• 1:09:18
  they were in Italy in two thousand and six. I don't really know people
• 1:09:21
  who were there in twenty twenty one. I'm sure it was a bit harder
• 1:09:24
  because of the COVID restrictions, you know, and and but the people who
• 1:09:29
  are there in thousand and six all had great stories. I'm I'm going as
• 1:09:33
  well, right after you. You're coming back, I'm going. So I
• 1:09:36
  don't know. Hopefully, hopefully we get to watch at least one game together
• 1:09:40
  in the Euros, but we'll see, because I'll be in Italy only for
• 1:09:46
  like the semi finals and finals, so god knows if Italy will still be
• 1:09:50
  in it at that point. But uh, enjoy it, a dianop.
• 1:09:56
  It's it's a bit sad we won't be able to watch it all three of
• 1:09:59
  us, but you know, a trip to Italy is even better. Yeah,
• 1:10:01
  you know, listen, I'm obviously excited. It's uh, you know,
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  part of me wants to kind of be in both locations at once because
• 1:10:11
  we were on such a high last time around. Obviously, you know,
• 1:10:14
  in twenty twenty one, just the emotion in the scenes here in Montreal,
• 1:10:19
  all the Italians getting together was was just beautiful. If it be at your
• 1:10:23
  chaos, if it be at other being little Italy, if it be at
• 1:10:27
  other cafes and bars Italian restaurants around the city, I know, everywhere that
• 1:10:32
  there was Italians, there was a good time. So, uh, you
• 1:10:38
  know, shout out to all the you know, all the cafes, Italian
• 1:10:43
  cafes, restaurants, bars that are going to be hosting you know, some
• 1:10:48
  watch parties, some events for the Euros here in Montreal. Because last time
• 1:10:54
  it was a it was a movie if it be RDP with you know,
• 1:10:57
  all the honking and all the craziness you know leading up to the final.
• 1:11:01
  In the final, I know RP is a movie. Uh literally it was
• 1:11:05
  crazy as well. So again it's I kind of want to be in both
• 1:11:10
  spots places at once. Listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna try to be as
• 1:11:15
  available as i can to still be on the podcast throughout the tournament because it's
• 1:11:20
  I'm gonna I'm gonna go crazy if I'm not, so I want to try
• 1:11:24
  to still be still be a part of it. But yeah, no,
• 1:11:28
  listen, wherever you're watching from, enjoy it because we know we will from
• 1:11:33
  wherever we're gonna be. So. But yeah, I'm hopeful for when I
• 1:11:38
  get back and before you leave, Johnny better be available. We're gonna have
• 1:11:42
  to hopefully watch at least one game, hopefully if it will still still in
• 1:11:46
  the tournament to watch together. But uh, but yeah, I'm excited.
• 1:11:53
  I think, uh, you know, doing these previews are getting us,
• 1:11:56
  you know, steps closer, inching closer to the tournament. I think today,
• 1:11:59
  well nine days away, yeah, nine days away from Italy kicking off.
• 1:12:03
  So guys, the countdown is on. We're under ten days until Italy
• 1:12:09
  kicks off in Euro twenty twenty four. Just be positive, I think,
• 1:12:13
  is the message, even though we rounted a bit today. Just be positive,
• 1:12:15
  be optimistic, support support your nation, support our nation, come together.
• 1:12:21
  I think as Italians we need to come together in these moments and you
• 1:12:26
  know we can come out on top hopefully. So so yeah, excited,
• 1:12:29
  excited to what what this tournament brings. And at the end of the day,
• 1:12:32
  just enjoy it. Because these these tournaments come around every two years or
• 1:12:38
  well sorry if Euros four years, in this case three years, but major
• 1:12:42
  tournaments usually every two years. We haven't had that, we haven't had the
• 1:12:45
  World Cup, so this is what we're left with with the Euros. You
• 1:12:49
  know, you know, being in this time again, it brings me back
• 1:12:53
  to twenty twenty one, where on one hand, you know, just amazing
• 1:12:59
  feelings. On the other hand, anyone who was a Habits fan or even
• 1:13:02
  a Lightning fan. You know, we had the playoffs, the Stanley Cup
• 1:13:04
  final the same week as Zero final, which was just in seeing that whole
• 1:13:09
  that whole month of sports was just like amazing memories for me personally. Yeah,
• 1:13:14
  and yeah, just just enjoy it. That's it. Being back in
• 1:13:17
  Germany is going to be bringing even back more memories, you know. I
• 1:13:21
  know today EA released the Euro twenty twenty four patch on EFC, So if
• 1:13:27
  you have the game, well play it, go win the Euros with Italy.
• 1:13:30
  Enjoy guys, enjoy it. Keep in tune with us on social media
• 1:13:33
  at the couch guys, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook and YouTube as well.
• 1:13:40
  We'll see how much contact we could put out. I hope I want
• 1:13:42
  to still record every single week. I know Jenny's busy, even if it's
• 1:13:45
  just me and a guest, I'll I'm more than happy to do it and
• 1:13:47
  talk at ZOOTI, but I think that'll do it for us. Adriano.
• 1:13:51
  Yeah, we talked a lot more about the just just Italy than we expected,
• 1:13:57
  but hey, we're not surprised. This is the only time where we
• 1:14:00
  support the same team because every other week of the year we we uh weah
• 1:14:05
  yeah we bash heads. But thank you Adrian, and enjoy Italy and uh
• 1:14:12
  for Italia. Yeah, guys for Italia. And we'll be back next week
• 1:14:16
  to talk about more cultural Thanks for listening.