Conte, who is leaving the Azzurri to join Chelsea in the English Premier League, transmits passion and the desire to succeed to his players.
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Germany and penalty shootouts go back a long way.
“It is not important to me now that it was a good tournament for Italy overall”.
“Italy are a different side to Slovakia. I can’t imagine that Italy would have scored from open play”.
The 68-year-old has won nothing, apart from a third division title during a 35-year managerial career.
The reigning World Cup champions will be without Hummels, who will be suspended after receiving a yellow card late in the second half. The Azzurri certainly seemed to be affected by the exodus of the golden generation of Italians who had mesmerised the world of football in the past decade.
Italy almost equalised in the 74th minute when Graziano Pelle’s shot from eight yards flashed past the post, but the goal soon came when Hungarian referee Viktor Kassai pointed to the penalty spot three minutes later. “We returned. with a beaten team and no federation”. “I’ve always fought for the interest of the national team, not myself”. I am proud of what these players did. “You love your country and the shirt you are wearing”.
“I hope in the future we can give more time for the national side”.
“Penalties are a lottery and they made one fewer mistake than us”, Bonucci said to Rai. The talented manager has somehow made an aging Italian team great again and if Euro 2016 is anything to go by, Chelsea fans should be extremely pleased with their managerial decision to bring in the Italian next season.
“We have to be intelligent in continuing on this path”, Bonucci said. For now I’ll leave it to others to take them.
Since Hoeness’ miss the Germans had become the masters, subsequently winning four out of four in the World Cup and beating England in their only other Euros shoot-out in the 1996 semis until Saturday.
It looked like it would boil down to who would be worse. I think we were superior on the pitch.
“It’s hard to put it into words, but I am overjoyed that it went in”, Hector said. We have a very talented group, and have now found the right structure. We achieved an objective at this European Championship where we were respected by all and we matched the world champions.
“This is not a goodbye, it is an arrivederci“.
Mesut Özil’s disappointing form continues in EURO 2016, as Germany edged past Italy in a tactically sound game.
It took several misses in the 18-kick epic before Germany clinched a 6-5 shootout victory when Manuel Neuer saved a tame shot from Manchester United defender Matteo Darmian.
The experienced threesome’s failures had little impact on the outcome, however, as young guns Jonas Hector, Joshua Kimmich and Julian Draxler were able to keep their cool to send Germany on to a sixth consecutive semi-final at a major tournament.
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July 2nd 2016 marked the day of the most anticipated match of Euro 2016.
