Italian-Argentine striker Mateo Retegui, who scored a goal on his debut for Italy, was praised by coach Roberto Mancini, who said he reminds him of Gabriel Batistuta.
“I don’t want to seem exaggerated, but he 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 Batistuta, the top scorer of the Argentine National Team until the appearance of Lionel Messiwho went from inflating nets in Boca to Calcio in 1990 and spent more than a decade in Italy playing for Fiorentina, Roma and Inter.
It is clear that the path of retegui It is different from that of a former scorer, but in the European country they have already set their sights on him. In Italy they say that Inter is following in his footsteps and who believe that he can follow a path similar to that of Lautaro Martinezbut it is also watched by the other team in the city, Milan.
“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 bit of time.”assured 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 in the Qatar 2022 World Cup, the second consecutive one that the ‘Azzurra’ missed, 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 we put into it”sentenced the Italian coach.
For his part, retegui faces his first call and, in case of signing three forms, he will resign the chance to be called for 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 He was not called up to any game in his first call up to the Italy team. The last European champion began the defense of the title in Naples against a high-end rival like England, in which it was a repetition of the last Eurocup final.
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