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Football: italy to stand by balotelli if he is jeered at euro 2012 by wwy yrj
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Football: italy to stand by balotelli if he is jeered at euro 2012 by WWY YRJ
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ROME: If Italy striker Mario Balotelli is the victim of jeers orracist chanting during Euro 2012, the whole national team set-upwill stand by him, coach Cesare Prandelli said on Thursday. Balotelli, who is of Ghanaian origin, has previously said that hewill walk off the pitch if he is jeered due to the colour of hisskin and Prandelli says the Italy squad as a whole would not sitidly by if he came under attack. "If there are racist boos directed at Balotelli, we would all leavethe bench and walk onto the pitch, we would do something forMario," said Prandelli. Racism in Ukraine, in particular, has become a hot topic since aBBC programme into terrace violence filmed fans in the countryapparently giving Nazi salutes and singing racist and anti-semiticchants.
But before Italy can start to worry about the reception they willreceive in Ukraine, there is the small matter of a friendly againstRussia in Zurich on Friday night. It will be Italy's only pre-Euro warm-up match and their first gamesince an embarrassing 1-0 home defeat by the United States at theend of February. They had been due to face Luxembourg in a friendly in Parma onTuesday but the game was cancelled due to an earthquake in thesurrounding region. Despite the game being scratched from Italy's schedule, Prandelliinsists he is not concerned by the lack of preparation. "I'm not worried, even though it's our first test in a while," hesaid.
"The lads are working hard and they want to play. They've shownmaximum willingness, so I'm satisfied." However, he admitted the cancelled game has put paid to his plansto experiment with tactics. Prandelli usually uses a 4-4-2 formation with a diamond in midfieldbut he said he wanted to try out a 4-3-3 system. "The two games would have been useful to try out the full range oftactical solutions," added Prandelli. "I would have liked to have seen the three up front but maybe we'llchange things tomorrow (Friday) in the second half.
"The first part we'll play with four in midfield and then we'll goto three up top with the central one dropping deep." Prandelli is a little concerned about the size of his forwards. Although Balotelli is tall and well-built, the rest of his options- Antonio Cassano, Sebastian Giovinco, Antonio Di Natale and FabioBorini - are all fairly small. "We could have problems given that up front we're the smallest andlightest team in Europe," he said. "We'll have to be good at winning back the ball.
But having saidthat, I didn't take into account height and weight in making mychoices." - AFP/de. I am a professional writer from Woven Crafts, which contains a great deal of information about slat wall panel , slate wall tile, welcome to visit!
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