I didn’t think twice about asking the question. It was pretty basic, and I’d talked to a couple other players earlier in the week about the same thing.
“Do all the injuries recently make you nervous?” I posed to midfielder Antonio Nocerino.
“I don’t know, probably,” he replied in English much-improved from last year but still a little broken.
“The mind commands the body. Every player has a different mentality, and now we have this little problem of injuries. The guys playing in place of those who have injuries play well, the same, no problem.”
It was a good answer, but not exactly what I was looking for.