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Andrea Abodi, Italian Minister for Sport and Youth, spoke about the readiness of stadiums for Euro 2032, declaring that Italy will be ready for UEFA assessments. He also addressed the national team's difficulties, attributing them to a "jinx" and neglect in the development of young talent, underlining the need for better youth training and a focus on technical models rather than purely tactical approaches.
Andrea Abodi did not limit himself to talking about field issues and went further. The minister for sport and youth of the Meloni government updated on the stadium situation in view of the 2032 European Championships: "We are progressing, I would have liked to be more timely, but, once again as was the case for Milan-Cortina, we will be ready for the evaluations that UEFA can make. Rome, Milan and Turin already have their destiny, 2 are missing, but there are open construction sites and project sites that are moving forward. Engineer Sessa is working fully pace, the first documents for the Roma stadium have been signed, you will see an acceleration in the next few months that will allow us to say that we have done it once again, but it will not be an event. It will be the stability of a stadium model that will give Italy greater competitiveness at least in this area, it will add a reserve one perhaps for Euro 2032, there is a stadium that is being born in silence, we will discover the quality of the team's work".
We won't go to the World Cup. "We are entering into a kind of spell, we have to find the right method, I don't think the talent has been lost, it has just fallen asleep, we are neglecting it, to the point of denying it. I believe that the priority of priorities concerns young people. Politics, the structure of the FIGC, the format of the championships, Sports Justice... They are all important, they must contribute to the credibility of the system, but everything revolves around the technical model, the research and training of talent, which has often been mortified on the altar of the method There are many guys who don't have as familiar and friendly a relationship with the ball as they should have, it doesn't always feel like a player is free to skip the man. It doesn't happen anymore that we win the World Cup, this is also one reason. It's too easy to look for talent abroad, maybe it's easier on a bureaucratic level, it costs less, we have to look for ways that allow us to have more competitiveness in the domestic market."
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