Football, coach Spalletti: “Betting? It often causes a social plague."

«The history of betting is profound. The adverts that are shown three or four times per game. Betting companies as sponsors. We are indignant, but we advertise something that has reason to exist only economically and in no way ethically... Unfortunately, betting is not only a plague in the world of football, but often so on a social level, there are families ruined by a "disease ”, a dependence, which unfortunately is convenient for the economy to keep going. It's a bit like the issue of cigarettes, and the state that makes them legal. Seeing kids who don't have talent or luck is sad but there is something more bitter and more unbearable than not having talent or luck: it's having both but not knowing how to recognize and appreciate them. This for me makes the difference between a real man and an apparent man. I always tell my players to think that in the stands there are people who have worked hard like this all their lives, who have worked hard, in every field, to improve and who expect the same from people who pay to see them in a stadium. , to whom he gives his heart and emotions, and from whom he expects commitment. Why does everyone love Sinner? Because in that boy, in his game and in his results, you can see the sign of the effort, of the hours spent to improve." The national coach said it, Luciano Spalletti (in the photo), in an interview published in Corriere della Sera.