A huge crowd, in tricolor colours, to embrace the Azzurri on the first day of work in Germany. Yesterday the reception under the hotel after arriving at Dortmund airport, today as many as 4 thousand fans in the stands dell’Hemberg Stadium, queuing practically since late morning, they embraced the Azzurri during the first training session in view of the match against Albania scheduled for Saturday 15 June at 9.00 pm.
And if Iserlohn has been dyed blue for a few days already, today the enthusiasm exploded during the only session open to the public: before the national team led by Luciano Spalletti entered the field, around 4.30 pm, there was show by Giovanni Zarrella, Italian-German singer with a past in Roma’s youth team. Immediately after the whole Italian group, before starting to work, greeted the fans with a tour of the pitch, among the most acclaimed Donnarumma, Scamacca and Barella, an ovation also for the head of the delegation Gianluigi Buffon who won the world championship title in Germany 2006. Spalletti himself took a few minutes during the athletic part by placing himself at the corner of the pitch, with all the spectators who wanted to greet the technical commissioner, at his first European Championship in his career. Also present in the facility was the president of the FIGC Gabriele Gravina. At the end of training, some small fans attempted a peaceful invasion of the pitch to hug their favorites, then the whole group returned to greet the fans before returning to the changing rooms.
In the evening, the inauguration of Casa Azzurri, the nerve center of support, a few hundred meters from the training ground, in the next few days fans will have the opportunity to experience the national team’s European adventure. Great enthusiasm also in the streets of Iserlohn where many Italians who emigrated to Germany wanted to embrace the group that will begin their journey to Euro 2024 from Saturday: an incredible crowd and a lot of enthusiasm, the same that Italy was able to experience first-hand eighteen years ago . Everyone’s hope is the same: to return to Rome with someone else coppa. Meanwhile, all the Azzurri people wanted to demonstrate their affection towards a national team that, as reigning champion, wants to overturn all the predictions. Like three years ago.