Del Piero: "It's the atmosphere of a final"

August 25, 2002
Juventus Official Site

During the journey from Milan to Tripoli, Alex Del Piero speaks with the journalists and comments a quite inusual situation for the Italian football: opponents on the same airplane and with the refereee and the Lega group on it too.

The captain seems happy about this experience. "It's an unusual situation. Usually there's a lot of attention to keep the referees away from the teams while today everything it's considered normal. For what attains me, there's no problem at all. We are relaxed and calm, but we're all already thinking about the match. The fact of playing in a neutral stadium actually gives us the atmosphere of playing in a final"

Alex doesn't forget the Italian Supporters: "I don't know if when Milan and Torino played in New York they were followed by their supporters. In this case the Italian fans will have to follow the match on tv".

Lippi hasn't revealed the team yet but the journalists ask to Del Piero a comment on the fact of playing with Salas: "Till now, we haven't played very much together. I confirm what Marcelo said in the previous days, we have similar characteristics but we want to change this thing into an advantage. One of the positive things about that, for example, it's that we know how we prefer to receive the ball".
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