Leonardo Bonucci will collect this Wednesday, in the Finalissima that Italy will play tomorrow against Argentina at Wembley, the captain’s armband of Giorgio Chiellini, who will leave the ‘azzurra’ team after this match, and spoke at the previous press conference at the London stadium.
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“Giorgio Chiellini is going to give me the bracelet. You have to enjoy his last day in the Italian team. He was a great captain, who replaced another great captain like Buffon,” said Bonucci.
Despite the fact that the teams that won the European Championship and the Copa America in 2021 face each other tomorrow, the disaster in Italy last March floats in the atmosphere when they did not qualify for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
“Since the World Cup is going to be played in five months, it still hurts us a lot. We made a lot of mistakes and that’s why we didn’t qualify for the World Cup. It’s our fault,” confesses Bonucci, ready to turn the page. “We write history in this stadium (at Wembley Italy won the European Championship against England on penalties) and tomorrow is going to be a very important match to start from scratch and put Italy where it has always deserved to be”.
Grateful to Messi
In addition, Bonucci was grateful to Leo Messi, who assured that it is not good for football that Italy is not in the World Cup.
“We thank Messi for his words. It’s going to be a great game tomorrow and our goal is to win this new trophy,” the Italian defender added.
Bonucci will have the opportunity this Wednesday to become the defender with the most goals in the history of the Italian national team: “It would be something very important, very nice.”
