The Italian-Argentine striker Mateo Reteguiwho chose to represent the Italian national team and faces his first call-up, was praised by the coach Roberto Manciniwho assured that it reminds him of Gabriel Batistuta.
“I don’t want to seem exaggerated, but it reminds me a bit of Batistuta when he arrived in Italy… He’s young, he needs to know his teammates, it’s not easy,” Mancini declared at the press conference prior to the match against England on the FIFA date.
The technician referred to batistutathe top scorer of the Argentine National Team until the appearance of Lionel Messiwho went from inflating nets in Mouth to Calcio in 1990 and spent more than a decade in Italy playing for the FiorentinaRome and Inter.
It is clear that the path of retegui is different from that of former goalscorer, but in the country of Europe they already laid eyes on him. In Italy they say that Inter is following in his footsteps and that they believe that he can follow a path similar to that of Lautaro Martinezbut the other team in the city, Milan, also watches it.
“I don’t think it’s easy to come to Italy, not to a club, but to the national team. We have a lot of faith in him, but we have to give him a little time,” said the coach, anticipating that he will be patient with the Tigre striker. .
Mancini is in a process of rebuilding the Italian team after being absent from the World Cup Qatar 2022the second consecutive that he lost the ´Azzurra´a team that won four World Cups and is the current European champion.
“We want to return to the same level as when we won the eurocup and that depends on us and the desire that we put into it”, sentenced the Italian coach.
For his part, retegui He is facing his first call-up and, in the event of signing three forms, he will give up the chance of being called up to Argentina in the future. Even Tuesday lionel scaloni He was very crude when referring to this topic and assured that the young man from Tigre was not in his immediate plans.
Retegui was not called up to any game in his first call to the Italy team. The last European champion will begin today the defense of the title in Naples against a high-end rival like England, in what will be a repetition of the last final of the eurocup.
In this level match the debut of retegui in the ´Azzurra´. The particularity of the striker’s call is not only that he was born in Argentina, but these days he plays for Tigre, a club that got used to being the protagonist but is not one of the five greats of national football.
Source: Ambito
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