San Marino in Tallinn, on Thursday the match against Estonia • newsrimini.it
There National of San Marino is ready to return to play a match with three points up for grabs, after the international friendlies in March with Cape Verde and Lithuania.
Tomorrow (Thursday)check’Estoniabegins the third adventure of the Titans in UEFA Nations League. The Biancoazzurri, belonging to Lega D, will face Estonia and Malta: whoever finishes group D2 at the top, will be started in League C. Which is the group where the Baltics played until a few months ago, having served the relegation at the hands of Cyprus to the play-outs last March. The national teams of San Marino and Estonia have previously met on three occasions, one of which in a friendly match played in Serravalle (Estonian 1-0 victory on 21 May 2002). After a dozen years, the double challenge in qualifying for EURO 2016. At home the Titans imposed a 0-0 against their opponents (November 15, 2014), while seven months later the Baltics achieved a 2-0 success, with a goal in time from Zenjov, in the same venue that will host tomorrow’s match.
This morning departure from Rimini, with a charter flight to Tallinn. In the afternoon, press conference and official training under the orders of Fabrizio Costantini and its staff. The San Marino technician met the press, together with Matteo Vitaioli who – not to take the field tomorrow – would become the player with the most appearances in the history of the national team. To date, the ’89 class has 73 tokens, as many as Andy Selva – a long-time record holder for games played internationally.
“A difficult match awaits us, Estonia has made great strides in recent years – he comments Vitaioli -. I hope the good performances of a few years ago ”. A specific question from the Estonian press, the San Marino striker underlines how “Representing your country on these stages is one of the most beautiful things that can happen to us players. And perhaps because San Marino is one of the smallest nations on the European scene, the sense of belonging that we feel is even greater than some professional colleague involved with national teams of great caliber ”.
The Technical Commissioner of San Marino points out the only way to think about doing an excellent performance in Estonia: “The key will be humility – ensures Costantini -. We must remain humble as we are and face Estonia as if it were another opponent. A tough team is waiting for us, well trained and which recently made very good results in qualifying for the Qatar 2022 World Cup. We will set up the approach to the match as we did with Cape Verde and Lithuania. The one we will face tomorrow is no longer the team close to our level, like a few years ago. Certainly he will not fall into the mistake of underestimating us and we will try to play our best match “.
Ques the 23 players called up by Fabrizio Costantini in view of the challenge of tomorrow. Estonia-San Marino we will play at Le Coq Arena from 18:00 Italian time.
FSGC | Press office