The qualification for the round of 16 in the 98th minute, the beautiful goal by Zaccagni for the 1-1 draw against Croatia, inspired by a clever play by Calafiori: l’Italia reigning champion arrives at eighths of the German European, escaping at the last second psychodrama of a country swollen with rhetoric and of ramshackle nationalism. Next stop BerlinSaturday, against Swisswho took first place from the Azzurri in the world qualifying round of Qatar 2022sending the gang of Roberto Mancini in the playoffs against North Macedonia: We all know how that went.

Here’s Berlin again, eighteen years later the night that brought Italy to Lippi to the conquest of fourth title iridescent: it is inevitable to make a comparison between the 2006 and the 2024between those we were and those we are, between the last golden generation of our football and the current one, where we must hold on to Zaccagni’s goal, a bencher only entered in the 81st minute, so as not to sink into the sadness. Donnarumma for the saved penalty, Bastoni for the best opportunity created before the 98th minute and for his overall performance, Calafiori for the personality – his absence will be a problem for disqualification against the Swiss – and Zaccagni for the blow at the crossroads which made millions of people jump, now sunk into the depression for a qualification to be won with the repechage lottery: this is Italy. She woke up, but after one unfaithful effortagainst one Croatia at the end of the cycle. Proud, but breathless. She is full of glory, but now with an empty tank. The pain of the sublime Modric178 appearances for the national team, soft in the penalty, but extraordinary in the opening shot, is the image of a group, vice world champion in 2018 and third in Qatar in 2022, al terminus.

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Qualification for the round of 16 is minimum wage for the reigning champions. The European is not the world, where you have to face Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and emerging nations. Finding yourself in the top sixteen is dutiful: the possible repechage would have been one mortification. Football is a strange, unpredictable sport. Maybe in Berlin, in an in or out match, we will see an Italy very different from that of the preliminary round, but believing in one metamorphosisat this time, requires a true act of faith. Spalletti it is not Bearzot and in this rose the are missing samples of a time: obvious, but they are the ones that count. In order not to go off track, when quality is limited, we must reduce the costs to a minimum errors, starting with the commander in chief. The coach talks about qualification deserved and immediately raises the tone of his voice with journalists, but against them Spain e Croatia they also nail him to responsibility obvious: training choices, the usual nervousness which is not good for the environment, a series of contradictions. She bet on Darmianthe only survivor of the Azzurri on the field in a world championship match: June 24, 2014, Natal, Uruguay-Italy 1-0. He sent Zaccagni into the fray, with an easy goal, only in the 81st minute despair. The dilemma Scamacca-Retegui, that Spalletti brings with him from Coverciano. The insistence on proposing Jorginhofar from 2021 levels. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

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The rest is vox populi: overall quality modestlack of talent, A league where you play mostly ball backwardssuffering when opponents raise the pace, titanic difficulty in scoring. And then the context: colossal debt, dilapidated structures, biblical times to build the stadiums. The events of Roma, Milan e Inter I’m a joke. A sector in total suffering for a decade, with the unexpected exploit of the previous European. This is Italy, not just in football. Rhetoric and nationalism are fine for propaganda, but they are needed to win matches, especially in big tournaments gol e players of international level. Word to Swiss, Now. Once upon a time, we watched her in football from the top to bottom. Today, the we fear.

2024-06-24 22:37:47
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