Meeting between sports stars, but from very different disciplines, last night in Miami. Spalletti's Italy has been in the United States for a few days for a tour during which they will first face Venezuela tomorrow evening, then Ecuador on Sunday evening. But in these parts he is also still Jannik Sinner, the tennis champion who became a true Italian hero after winning the Australian Open in January and leading Italy to Davis Cup victory in November. The South Tyrolean athlete suffered his first defeat of 2024 a few days ago, eliminated in Indian Wells in the semi-final by Carlos Alcaraz, but he does not seem to have lost his smile. The one he exhibited at Chase Stadium in Miami where the unusual meeting with the national football team took place. Welcomed with all honors, Sinner was cited as an example for his team by coach Luciano Spalletti: “Now it's easy to talk about self-discipline and motivation, you just have to take a little piece of him…”. But the one who sent even warmer congratulations, at least as the national team showed on social networks, was the head of the Azzurri delegation Gianluigi Buffon: “I follow you and we always follow you with great pride”, the former champion The goalkeeper spoke to him enthusiastically about the 2006 world championship. While admitting that he is not exactly a great connoisseur of the sport that the red-tufted talent practices: “Even my children , it's not like we've ever followed tennis so much, but now that you're here… It's like when Luna Rossa was here, so everyone was talking about upwind, about buoys: the people woke up well at night. Now everyone only talks about As and its surroundings. » Sinner greeted Buffon's reflections with a smile. Then, after the hug with Spalletti and his nods of motivation, the group photo to immortalize the meeting on a foreign land.
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