Norway-Italy 3-0, Adani's 'message': "Those who know football had predicted a tough match"

"Anyone who knows football knows that this was a difficult match". Italy was defeated 3-0 by Norway and Daniele Adani, at the end of the match commentated on Raiuno, seemed to take a swipe at some commentator 'guilty' of having underestimated the Azzurri's opponents. "It's a bad lesson. But anyone who talks about football seriously, knows the championships, has respect for the game and also monitors the value of the players by profession, knows and knew that this was a difficult challenge", says the former footballer. "Anyone who knows football knows and knew that this was a difficult challenge, I would never have thought of a 3-0 defeat", he adds.

The previous one

Who is Adani referring to? If you rewind the tape, you go back to the statements that the commentator made in January, referring with 'questionable' tones to Fabio Caressa, the voice of Sky football. "Those who study football know that Norway is a strong team. Sorloth, Haaland and Nusa are strong", Adani said at the beginning of the year on Twitch. "Some idiot who doesn't know how to do this job says 'should we be afraid of Norway?'. They reported it to me, I have to call you by your real name, idiot...", Adani's words, which triggered a long-distance back-and-forth .

"I am Voldemort, the one who cannot be named," Caressa said with a smile and referring to the fact that Adani had never directly mentioned his name. "In football there are no enemies, only adversaries. We transmit culture with the microphone, even when talking about sports. You can have discussions, even heated ones, but anger, insults are not part of this world. Because just as in sports you compete fairly to try to win by following the rules, in the same way when there is a discussion there are rules of behavior."

"We need respect, without insulting. It is important to talk and listen to the other, not to have things told to you but to listen to them directly, and then you can say 'I don't agree'. Getting to the point of insulting because a person has a different idea than you is dangerous, it brings back very dark moments", Caressa's words "the insult for those who don't agree is truly darkness. We must be careful. I do not pretend to have the truth in my hands or to educate, but to transmit a message without violence, even verbal. I will continue with my ideas always with respect, never with rudeness. And never with violence".