Training the blue. Put a morning with Mancini, De Giorgi, Campagna and Pozzecco

Put together on a stage Roberto Mancini, Ferdinand DeGiorgi, Sandro Campagna And Gianmarco Pozzecco, the soccer, volleyball, water polo and basketball coaches and you’ll have a morning of interesting words for those who love sport and the blue shirt. “Training the Azzurro” was born from a brilliant idea by Gianni Petrucci, a talk skilfully managed by Carlo Mornati, general secretary of Coni who made us travel for an hour and a half on the benches of four national teams who in the last 20 over the years they have collected 24 medals between Europeans, World Cups and the Olympics (8 golds, 10 silvers and 6 bronzes), i.e. 29% of the podiums assigned which has made Italy the third nation in Europe (behind Spain and Serbia). The team medal, unfortunately, is what we missed in Rio because, as Malagò underlined: “Two medals are not considered team medals which instead come from the team like the cycling quartet or the rowing eight”. The president of Coni also added: “If massive and targeted policies do not arrive, it is impossible to achieve these results in the space of a couple of decades. We need to reverse this trend. We can by two means: the first is competence, the second is our model which is much envied, but which is under attack. We must not intervene on what, data in hand, it is impossible to repeat certain results“, prompting an immediate response from Minister Abodi: “John, I don’t think the world of sport is under attack. I think that sometimes it is its own enemy. we don’t respect these principles we don’t give a logical and moral sense to our autonomy. Let’s rediscover the values ​​of the blue shirt, let’s promote them at school level. Sometimes the goal is sporting supremacy. As far as I’m concerned, the daily goal is the supremacy of values ​​” . In short, what was supposed to be a celebration of the blue shirt began like this, with a nice question and answer that is not the perfect example of “teamwork”. What do you want to do. They take advantage of every opportunity to mark their territory.