'' Our hope is that a cycle has opened with the victory of the European Championship, the World Cup is not that far away and this team can still improve.
And if you have fun in the end you win because when you do a job that you enjoy you always give your best: in football there is also a loss but we hope it will happen after 2022 ''.
So Roberto Mancini on the eve of Italy's first match as European champion, against Bulgaria.
"Now the main objective is to qualify" continued the Italian coach who announced that the team "will not differ much from that of the semifinal and final of the European Championship".