A blue bow to Jannik Sinner, the tennis champion for whom Italy’s fans wake up at night and whom Italy’s football fans applaud, encouraged by his coach to follow an example. The number 3 in the ATP ranking is the athlete of the moment, and in Miami he visited the national European champions, in the first training session of the American tour. “It would be easy now to talk about self-discipline and motivation: just take a little piece of him”, Luciano Spalletti told his players, inviting them to take Sinner’s example after greeting him with the explicit gesture of bowing and applause.
Video Surprise for the Azzurri in Miami, first training with Sinner
Thunderous clapping from the whole team too, lined up in a circle in midfield. On the turf of the Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, the Inter Miami pitch where Messi plays, Donnarumma, Barella, Chiesa, Jorginho and the other Azzurri had recently started working, while it was night in Italy, still dazed by the time difference and from 13 hours flight from Rome.
Azzurri: Sinner surprise, first training in Miami with n.3 tennis
Sinner, involved in the Miami tournament after losing in the semifinals in Indian Wells to Alcaraz, arrived to say hello, and was welcomed by the president of the Football Federation, Gabriele Gravina, and then by Gianluigi Buffon, head of the delegation. The Australian Open winner tennis player and the former world champion goalkeeper in 2006 immediately started embracing and exchanging compliments. Well done you, no well done you, but Buffon gave way (“I’ve already given mine…”) paying homage to the 23-year-old champion from Sesto Pusteria, who as a child had also tried the path of football, playing in the Pulcini as a midfielder with a propensity to score.
“We always follow you with great pride – Buffon’s words – You are really beautiful, a good example. Just think, even my children, who don’t particularly follow tennis, are very involved: it’s like when Luna Rossa was there, all ‘suddenly everyone got up at night to turn on the TV and talked about upwind, about winds… Now everyone was following tennis.” “Beautiful, I’m very pleased”, replied Sinner with a smile, who then moved with Spalletti to meet the team.
Azzurri: Sinner surprise, first training in Miami with n.3 tennis
The coach has not missed an opportunity to hold him up as an example to follow for his players, to whom he has already shown the path to a new competitive ‘discipline’ made of dedication and motivation; also in this, as for the American tour, following in the footsteps of Marcello Lippi, who in 2004 showed his Italy the Setterosa Olympic water polo champion in Athens as a model to follow.
Then, group photo with Sinner surrounded by all the players, smiles and other shots with Spalletti, Donnarumma, Raspadori, Orsolini. Appointment tomorrow at the stadium for Italy-Venezuela: Sinner should be in the audience, as long as his self-discipline and training don’t get in the way.
Azzurri: Sinner surprise, first training in Miami with n.3 tennis
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2024-03-20 11:22:00
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