Great day of sport yesterday and great day for Italy.
In this podcast we celebrate the victory and we recognize that this time we have given the lesson of “British” style.
You have to know how to lose, because from defeats in sport as in life, the foundations for future triumphs are laid, we have proved it.
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Podcast transcript
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Today the podcast comes from just yesterday Italy’s great victory in the final at the European Championships. Great day of sport also with Berrettini who lost against one of the greatest tennis players in history, so honor to Djokovic and honor to Berettini who is also very good for all the progress he has made in his career.
But the pleasure that almost all of us felt last night to see the British defeated is boundless but I want to talk about something else I want to talk about knowing how to accept defeat.
I didn’t like what I saw at Wembley yesterday. I can understand the fans even if it is not civil to whistle the anthem but now almost everyone does it.
I can also understand the fans who, having lost the home game on penalties, almost all leave the stadium at the end of the game, but I cannot understand the behavior of the players. I saw a really bad attitude and the thing that struck me the most was the fact that they took off the silver medal they just received.
I think this is a demonstration of a loser-loser mentality because first of all the value of the opponents who have won is not recognized. And this is very serious.
Secondly, you don’t even recognize your own value. Because, in any case, reaching the final means having faced a really hard, really difficult path and therefore they must understand the great feat that they have done anyway and that will remain in history also because I do not want to be ironic but it is not a national team that has made many finals and that the English one has won a lot even if they boast of having won for having invented the game of football sorry.
I think a great lesson must be learned from a coach who coaches England in Manchester City than Pep Guardiola who this year lost the Champions League final but despite losing the final once he received the medal he kissed it. This winning behavior.
In fact, he has won a lot the impossible in his career, he has nothing to prove. That is the attitude of a winner who recognizes the value of the opponent but also recognizes the value of what his boys have done that he did by reaching the final because we needed two of them all get there.
In my opinion, that is sport, that is the emblem of sport. Going away don’t shake hands don’t take off your medal is not sport and they should also understand that from the defeats you learn we think where Italy came from.
Italy came from one of the biggest disappointments in the history of the Italian national team, namely the non-participation in the World Cup after the unfortunate 0 0 at San Siro against Sweden.
From there he rebuilt himself with humility with a group, it is the defeats that create great victories and great enterprises. Dear England, dear English, this time you have to learn.
