Euro 2020, Spinazzola: “Whole Italy by the hand”

Victory at Euro 2020? “How nice it is to know that we have transported the whole of Italy with us. We took you by the hand and took you with us. We really united Italy a little. Crazy but also normal: I knew we would get to the bottom, for this I cried after the injury. It was not pain but anger. ” This is how Leonardo Spinazzola, the unfortunate player of the national team and of Rome, told ‘La Repubblica’ about his injury against Belgium and the joy for the European championship he won. Read also The Giallorossi defender-midfielder explains the moments of the injury in the quarter-finals. “I feel a strong blow to the heel, with the corner of my eye I look for the Belgian who hit me but I don’t see anyone, behind me that opponent is not there. Cristante arrives, I collapse to the ground and I understand.” Because now, why to me? This I thought. And then I cried for what I was losing. “” When the President of the Republic asked ‘where is the boy with the crutches?’ I realized what an incredible emotional carousel I was on, I don’t think I go down anymore. The crusader stops your life, the tendon you just have to wait for it to calcify, it’s like a tear. Then you work on it, it’s not a mechanical problem but a fiber problem. In a week I take away the points and I start with one goal a day, and if I don’t start playing again in 6 months I go out on the pitch, alone, and I want to see who catches me “, he concludes.