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STRAMACCIONI, NOW UP TO YOU

"I feel ready but enough promises: now Inter need to play."

The new coach to debut and to reverse a disastrous course.

"Emotional? Only when I came in the dressing room."

Appiano Gentile - And now it is up to him.  This saying is ungenerous but it is the law the the show (or of football which is a bit of the same thing).  Overwhelmed by an unusual destiny, with a cellphone flooded with calls and text messages ("No, those are not from Mourinho: he doesn't know who I am"), Stramaccioni is ready.

Enough talk He is primarily a realist: "I am pleased of the first five days of work, but I am not presumptuous to think that I can make an impact in such a short time.  I try to ensure the best possible Inter on April 1."  And one request: "I asked the team one simple thing: to not know the opponents that we are going to play after this match because we must only think of beating Genoa."  No more talk.  "Enough talk, enough promise: now we must reply on the field and this is the desire to reverse the trend that I and our players have.  We must give must a sign that we have to deny everything bad that has been said about this team.  And in football there is only one to day it: zero proclamations, just facts."

Full of emotion "The biggest was when I came in the dressing room for the first time.  It will still be crazy tomorrow but I feel comfortable being on the field and when the referee blows the whistle, your concentration takes over to only think about the game."  Stramaccioni has been preparing the team "with my ideas, my way of working, trying to calibrate it with the characteristics of these players: a change in which I want continuity."

Quality on the field Then he talked about the players available on the team and particularly Fredy Guarin: "He has a powerful engine and we need time and attention to see him back the way we knew him.  But his characteristics make us very comfortable."  And then about Zarate: "Mauro has quality and my choices depend on what I see on the field.  This team has a lot of quality and I'm trying to put that on the field."

Play like Inter "We need to play like Inter and I'm not the only one that said this.  We all said and are aware of this in the dressing room."  But now the San Siro (not only) awaits him.  This is a harsh law of football but we don't believe it displeases him.

Source: Gazzetta dello Sport