The presence of Gennaro Gattuso, national team coach, and Gianluigi Buffon, Italy's delegation leader, at Saturday night's Gigi Riva Trophy was already announced last week, with the two 2006 World Champions set to visit the Unipol Domus to pay homage to their legend . Both will also stop at the Crai Sport Center before the match between Cagliari and Saint-Étienne.
Gattuso and Buffon will be in Assemini this morning, a few hours before the match, to meet with the team and the coaching staff led by Fabio Pisacane . This is part of the tour that the new national team coach, who is expected to make his debut as Italy coach against Estonia in Bergamo on September 5th in the World Cup qualifiers, is currently undertaking with various Serie A teams ahead of the start of the championship.
Today, Gattuso and Buffon (along with assistants Luigi Riccio and Leonardo Bonucci) visited Juventus at Continassa. Gattuso made a deliberate choice to immediately build a direct relationship with the club and players ahead of upcoming official matches . Before Cagliari, the tour will take place tomorrow in Appiano Gentile to meet Inter, followed by Udine on August 13th.