"As long as there's Gigi in the goal we're in good hands". Alex Meret's words, who's Alberico Evans's U21 starting goalkeeper. Buffon remains an icon other players admire, even if his presence for the last 20 years has shut the door for an entire generation of goalkeepers: "He keeps doing well, you could see it also yesterday against Argentina - has said Meret to Rai Sport - He deserves the starting position. When it will be the other keepers' turn, we'll see. There's some kind of in-between moment for the Nazionale, with these friendly games that will be used to build the team again. I hope that we will start at the best".
The future should go by his hands and Donnarumma's, even if at the moment the game against Serbia for Evani's team, on Tuesday, is more important: "It will be a tough game but we're aware of our possibilities, even playing away we have some chances. We're sorry about how the game against Norway went because we were better than them but couldn't make the best out of our occasions".
A future that is partly blue, not only because of the Italian national team though. Napoli is strongly interested in him as they have to find an heir to Reina and a lot of clues go to Meret: "I'll go back to Udine in June as I belong to Udinese. Then we'll see, but I don't think about the transfer window now".
