National Team, Cevoli: "We’ll go out there to win, we’ll need to be at our best"

San Marino’s National Team has arrived in Gibraltar, where they have already had a taste of the potentially prohibitive weather conditions in the country at the Pillars of Hercules. A very strong wind and persistent rain marked the official training session at the Europa Point Stadium – the extraordinary stage for the UEFA Nations League clash (tomorrow, 20:45 – live on San Marino RTV Sport and web radio on TITANI.TV). The Titans come into the game as group leaders, with no intention whatsoever of sitting on a status they have never experienced before: “We will stick to the approach we’ve shown all year, going out with the ambition to win. Obviously we will have to show intelligence on the pitch and, if the way the match is going means we can’t get more than a draw, then that is what we must secure. But only if we have given everything we have in pursuit of victory,” assured Head Coach Roberto Cevoli at the press conference. Also in the media room was midfielder Samuele Zannoni, questioned by the local press about San Marino’s preparation for the match and the forbidding eve-of-game weather: “Regardless of the conditions we find tomorrow evening, we will need to be good and quick in adapting so we can play our best football. Of course we rewatched Liechtenstein-Gibraltar and what immediately stood out was their physicality, which we need to take very seriously – especially on set pieces. For our part, we must make the most of our best qualities in our build-up play, trying to keep the ball at our feet as much as possible. A personal target? To score for the National Team and, why not, to win again on the international stage.” Cevoli reserved a special mention for the more than twenty San Marino National Team supporters travelling with the Biancazzurri: “This is something unprecedented abroad and I think it shows the systemic growth of football in San Marino. It fills us with pride to feel them so close to us but – I want to stress this – they have always been there, even when results were slow in coming. I want to publicly thank them for the enthusiasm they help create around the National Team; they definitely deserve praise for everything they do for us.”

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