Spalletti focused on playing good football

Italy head coach Luciano Spalletti believes playing well can sometimes be more important than winning matches

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00:00It's a bit like everyone I've met since I started as a coach.

00:06You're the same.

00:08Everyone tells me the same thing.

00:10Even my managers now.

00:13Coach, the important thing is to win.

00:16They all know the important thing is to win.

00:19And they all know how to say it.

00:22Since I started coaching the kids, the important thing is to win.

00:28No, the important thing is to play well.

00:31Because if I'm the coach of the national team,

00:35it's because my teams...

00:38Not to do...

00:40Or better not to say it.

00:42Because if I do, I'll be against it.

00:44No, no, it's better not to say it.

00:46In the sense that...

00:48To become the coach of the national team,

00:52or us, to be able to aspire to do what you say,

00:56we have only one way.

00:58That of playing.

01:00Because we have to play football.

01:03Because if not, there are teams of a higher level.

01:06If you go and play with the same things that the teams of a higher level have,

01:12they win because they know how to do everything.