{"id":7972,"date":"2026-06-05T16:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/7972\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:19:13","slug":"baldini-gets-italy-to-train-blindfolded-after-1-0-win-over-luxembourg-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/7972\/","title":{"rendered":"Baldini gets Italy to train blindfolded after 1-0 win over Luxembourg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interim Italy coach Silvio Baldini has raised eyebrows, and closed eyes, by getting the Azzurri to train blindfolded ahead of the friendly with Greece.<\/p>\n<p>The Under-21 coach has taken the job temporarily for two friendly matches after Gennaro Gattuso\u2019s resignation and the failed World Cup play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He already oversaw the 1-0 win in Luxembourg on Wednesday, where he gave senior debuts to 15 players in a totally experimental side.<\/p>\n<p>Now he is preparing for Sunday\u2019s trip to Greece and is taking an unusual approach to the training sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Italy testing out different methods<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780676353_825_8948a743dc74cde514a7813abb4883b3.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CESENA, ITALY \u2013 OCTOBER 10: Silvio Baldini head coach of Italy U21 during the UEFA Under21 EURO Qualifier betweenItaly U21 v Sweden U21 and ad hoc Arena im Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld on October 10, 2025 in Cesena, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Nazionale social media accounts released the video of his players doing exercises with a blindfold covering one eye.<\/p>\n<p>Baldini is not new to this sort of thing, as he already employed the technique at club level with Palermo and Pescara, and <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/why-italy-under-21-team-wearing-eyepatches\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:again for the Under-21 team.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;again for the Under-21 team.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">again for the Under-21 team.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Seeing only out of one eye affects depth perception, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/Calcio\/Nazionale\/08-10-2025\/baldini-e-gli-allenamenti-bendati-il-retroscena-sui-metodi-del-ct-dell-italia-under-21.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he also believes that it will help players;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;he also believes that it will help players&quot;}\" class=\"link \">he also believes that it will help players<\/a> to use their other senses and not rely too heavily on just one.<\/p>\n<p>He also feels it can make the \u2018weaker\u2019 side stronger with use, so covers the \u2018dominant\u2019 eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interim Italy coach Silvio Baldini has raised eyebrows, and closed eyes, by getting the Azzurri to train blindfolded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[2070,408,5,2069],"class_list":["post-7972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-luxembourg","tag-baldini","tag-italy","tag-luxembourg","tag-silvio-baldini"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@lu\/116698412883538514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}