{"id":125153,"date":"2026-10-06T20:18:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T18:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/?p=125153"},"modified":"2026-10-06T22:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:42:45","slug":"pio-esposito-ringrazia-mancini-celebra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/pio-esposito-ringrazia-mancini-celebra\/","title":{"rendered":"Pio Esposito thanks Mancini and celebrates the Vialli Award with pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Young footballer Pio Esposito expressed his gratitude to coach Roberto Mancini for the trust he&#039;s shown in him since the beginning of his Azzurri career. &quot;I can only thank coach Mancini for the trust he&#039;s placed in me from the very beginning,&quot; Esposito said during a video link at the Vialli Award ceremony, where he was awarded the Goleador Award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Esposito emphasized the special meaning of wearing the national team jersey: &quot;It&#039;s always a special feeling, always different. I&#039;ve worn the blue jersey since the Under 16s. When you put on the blue jersey, it&#039;s the most beautiful feeling: it&#039;s every kid&#039;s dream when they start playing football.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding Gianluca Vialli, for whom the award is named, Esposito said: &quot;I&#039;ve always heard of Vialli as a very humble person and an example for young people, with strong moral values off the pitch. Receiving this award makes me very proud.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read also<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/mancini-italia-squadra-giovane-crescita\/\">Mancini: Italy is a young and growing team that will become even younger.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/napoli-la-passione-azzurra-arriva-in-argentina-nasce-tanos-il-mini-doc-del-club\/\">Napoli&#039;s passion for the Azzurri reaches Argentina: &quot;Tanos,&quot; the club&#039;s mini-documentary, is born.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/al-via-il-fantacalcio-serie-bkt\/\">The Serie BKT Fantasy Football is underway<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pio Esposito esprime gratitudine al ct Mancini per la fiducia e celebra il Premio Vialli, evidenziando l&#8217;emozione di indossare la maglia azzurra.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sb_editor_width":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[85,622,1842,4611,4610,1372],"ppma_author":[30],"class_list":["post-125153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calcio","tag-calcio","tag-nazionale-italiana","tag-pio-esposito","tag-premio-goleador","tag-premio-vialli","tag-roberto-mancini"],"relative_dates":{"created":"1 week ago","modified":"1 week ago"},"authors":[{"term_id":30,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"paolopicone","display_name":"Redazione Centrale","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/54de8379a15a6539d41f5cd43c1b6fc220d10161ae5fefcd739b4111632a6a1a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"Redazione","last_name":"Centrale","user_url":"https:\/\/primasport.eu","author_category":"0","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125160,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125153\/revisions\/125160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125153"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=125153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}