Spalletti applauded as the last set finished, then he turned and looked at the sideline.
"You lot must be exhausted from all that watching," he said as he addressed the white bibbed players that had been left behind and the few red bibbed players that had been left behind with them.
As he spoke, Leo got to his feet, waiting on what the man would do next, and he didn't have to wait long.
After speaking for about half a minute, Spalletti split the remaining white bibs and the three leftover reds into the same structure, one set of attackers, midfielders and defenders, and since the numbers worked out exactly, there was no waiting group this time.
Everyone was playing.
As he got onto the pitch, Leo felt something tighten in his chest.
Spalletti started the ball, and soon the particular tension of performing in front of people who have been watching you be used as an example gripped him a bit, but he brushed it off as quickly as it came.
