FIFA Futsal World Championship
Alessandro Nuccorini: "Thank you to my players"
Italy coach Alessandro Nuccorini was fulsome in his praise for his players
after their final defeat. (ACTION IMAGES) Brandon Malone
(FIFA.com) 05 Dec 2004
The FIFA Futsal World Championship Chinese Taipei 2004 drew to a climax today
with Spain retaining the title they first won four years ago. Italy finished
valiant runners-up, while Brazil picked up bronze after defeating Argentina.
FIFA.com was on hand to get all the reaction after the day's thrilling events
…
Alessandro Nuccorini (Italy coach)
"First and foremost, I want to thank all my players and backroom staff. Our
marvellous World Championship is all down to them. We behaved impeccably
throughout, and tonight's defeat will not erase that fact from my memory.
We played beautifully throughout the tournament, but today fatigue caught up
with us. Spain deserved to win because they were the better team today. So
well done to them! I said before the match that it was not going to be easy
to play a team we had beaten twice in our last two encounters. But we could
not pick and choose our opponent. We just had to get on with it.
Before this match we had won 23 matches, drawn once, unluckily, to Portugal,
and lost a friendly to Slovenia when most of my experienced players were
absent. My players should be really proud of themselves. In life, you have to
pick yourself up and look to the future and that's just what we will do. At
the end of the tournament, our record reads six wins, one draw and one defeat,
just like Spain's. But tonight it is Spain who are world champions. We won
one match against them, and lost one, but at the end of the day, they are the
winners. That's sport for you. After the game, I wrote on the dressing room
wall, 'You are fantastic, you should be proud of yourselves. Thank you for
everything'."
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