Daniele De Rossi spoke to the media during the post-match presser of Genoa-Roma.
The coach focused on the emotional impact of the match: “If you decide to become a coach, you know you’ll be playing against Roma. I don’t want to downplay what Roma meant to me, but I don’t want to justify myself because that would be a hypocrite, and I shouldn’t pretend to be happy because I won.”
“And this will be my destiny until I go back to hoping that Roma wins 38 games a year, because maybe that will happen. It’s the dream of many and my goal, but if I have to think of a team in the world that makes me feel at home, similar to Roma, this is where I am. And I love it.”
“Then the coach spoke about Pellegrini, the perpetrator of the penalty: “I don’t know how accurate it is to talk about other players. I saw that he surpassed me and others in terms of assists. Like all Romans, he gets criticized, but when he’s gone, we’ll say, ‘Did you see when Pellegrini was there?’ I can say he’s making Roma history.”
