Do you really have against Italy still afraid? In almost 54 years, the German national football team has never Azzurra won a competitive match against the Squadra. Three draws and four defeats there, the latter all traumatic. Mexico in 1970, Spain in 1982, Germany in 2006, Poland 2012. Three semi-finals and finals, the Germans lost against the Italians, one could also say: to the Azzurri never passed, more than in friendlies.
On March 29, is back as a match. The world champion Germany receives Italy in Munich. It is a test, it comes to nothing, and yet this international match will be a special a few months before the European Championship, as both sides hope it will look for their morale. The performance-drenched Germans dream of retracting a massive victory, as if they could rid the of her old Italy trauma. And the Italians want, even to beat the Germans this time. At least that should still succeed, even if nothing else is as it was.
Because at home there the crisis, and the one who overcome should help is already on the bounce. Coach Antonio Conte will change according to the EM to an English club, probably is Chelsea. Conte, 46, had trained before the 2014 World Cup Juventus and was appointed after the resignation of his predecessor Cesare Prandelli practically overnight coach. Cesare Prandelli had the consequences from the embarrassing notion his team pulled that had already cede in Brazil after the first round, after beating England and one each defeat against Costa Rica and Uruguay. Previously Prandelli Azzurri had in 2012, after all, reached the European Championship final, for a smooth 2: 0 in the semifinal against Germany. Both gates had Mario Balotelli scored, and as the leader jersey took off after his winning goal, to show his statuesque body that has been burned as a moment of triumph and humiliation to the German public. Balotelli is now 25 years old, but in Munich, he will not be there.
Since the fiasco of Brazil Balotelli was not called into the national team. The Italian media and the so-called “senators” among the Azzurri, so the older, more experienced player to captain Gianluigi Buffon had identified the attacker as one of the most responsible for the failure of the World Cup mission. And coach Conte, which counts the Juve goalkeeper Buffon to his intimates, Balotelli ruled out immediately.
From the series A, the hero of 2012. Balotelli disappeared was sold by AC Milan to Liverpool, but remained there only one year and returned in 2015 back on loan to Milan. There threatens his talent slowly go out, this season he scored just one league goal. Balotelli makes Conte so easy to ignore him on, as well as his former attack partner Antonio Cassano. As “nursing care” and “mongrel” ARD commentator Mehmet Scholl and Reinhold Beckmann Balotelli and Cassano had called after their victory over Germany in a controversial comment – the authoritarian Conte could not do anything with the anarchic game of wild dogs. Dear, he relies on his Apulian compatriot Graziano Pellè, a burly, lanky attacker who plays for Southampton FC. Pellè has indeed far brought in his youth as a ballroom dancer, as a football player but he is more like Luca Toni: powerful and not particularly mobile. The exact opposite of Lorenzo Insigne from Napoli. Insigne is 163 centimeters small 59 kilos easily, dribbling and crafty. Actually preferred Conte player with physical presence and proven condition, the fine technicians he distrusts. Too individualistic, too little team player.
But on the scorer of Serie A’s Insignia of the best Italians – at No. 8. At the top, two Argentinians Gonzalo Higuaín from SSC Napoli and Juventus Paulo Dybala. Nearly 58 percent of the players in Serie A are foreigners in Europe only England and Belgium have a higher rate. For the two matches against Spain (Holy Thursday) and Germany Conte has appointed Jorginho, Thiago Motta and Éder three naturalized Brazilians who were Italian passports, because their great-grandfathers had once emigrated from Italy. The fact that the descendants of Italian emigrants are recruited for the Azzurri is nothing new, already the world champion team of 1934 played two Italo-South Americans. But as significant as now the emergency has never been.
For years promise Italian football bosses better youth development, then buy but would prefer young talent from abroad. Only the province club US Sassuolo plays with an almost purely Italian team. As the only major club Juventus has written expressly sustainability on its banners; with still four players forming the backbone of Juve Azzurri. This is a tradition, as well as almost all the coach have completed several years on the Juve bench. Yet the times seem because a majority of the Azzurri from Turin arrived, to be over. Juve is still present, but not identity.
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