Israel: Luciano Spalletti’s message against the war in the Middle East

Questioned by the Italian press, Luciano Spalletti returned to the particular context of this meeting, before taking the road to Udine, as part of the Italy-Israel Nations League match scheduled for tomorrow evening at the Friuli stadium, which takes place a little more than a month after the first leg played on neutral ground in Budapest. The coach emphasizes I radiated that in this case football can also have the function of drawing attention to the atrocities of war.

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«We will play with the hope of always convincing people more. I think many Israelis don’t want war. And we always need to further convince someone that this is something that needs to stop. There are no different provisions from Ufea and Fifa, so we play trying to behave well on the pitch“, he said. Friuli will still be half empty after many political stances in Italy that the match was not appropriate. Maximum security measures will be taken around the stadium, while the Pro Palestina procession will parade three hours before kick-off.