Atalanta manager Gian Piero Gasperini spoke with Tuttosport prior to his squad's return leg match against Valencia in Champions League. Atalanta won the first leg 4-1.
"This evening at Valencia awaits the most important match in the 112 years of Atalanta history. If we pass this round, we'll enter among the 8 strongest teams in Europe. However it goes, it's the award of four years of extraordinary collective work. We want to give joy to everyone during a very hard moment. The Goddess and I will be stronger than the virus, it's a promise."
On the Italian government suspending all sporting activities: "You need to accept any type of decision that benefits the health of all citizens. Football is not its own world. We are living in a state of emergency and we must adapt, no ifs, ands or buts."
"If you have dreams, you must nourish them, if not what flavor is there? Atalanta must never stop, it must never go back to the years in which salvation was the primary objective."
