{"id":46360,"date":"2026-04-05T00:04:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=46360"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:04:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:04:42","slug":"everybodys-talking-about-italy-after-world-cup-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=46360","title":{"rendered":"Everybody’s talking about Italy after World Cup flop"},"content":{"rendered":"
Italy’s latest World Cup failure has triggered a national inquest, with Saturday’s Serie A press conferences inevitably dominated by questions about where it all went wrong \u200band what needs to be done.
\nItaly missed a third straight World Cup after a playoff loss to Bosnia on Tuesday, \u200cprompting both manager Gennaro Gattuso and federation chief Gabriele Gravina to step down. Genoa manager Daniele De Rossi knows what it takes not only to reach a World Cup, but to win one, having been part of Italy’s triumphant 2006 squad.
\nAhead of his side’s match at Juventus on Monday, a question about whether he would \u200baccept the Italy job was not quite what he expected.
\n“I thought you wanted a programme about the rebirth of Italian \u200bfootball,” De Rossi said.
\n“I had mentally prepared myself not to answer, because I’ve heard so many things in \u2060these last few days. I think there’s really been a lot of talking.
\n“I think more or less everyone is talking, former players, \u200bformer coaches, butchers and grocers, journalists. Everyone is talking about rebirth, about the magic recipe to bring Italian football back, I worry \u200babout Genoa staying up and I think my opinion isn’t all that important.”<\/p>\n

SACKED SPALLETTI SPEAKS<\/p>\n

Juventus coach Luciano Spalletti was Italy manager until a 3-0 loss to Norway in the opening World Cup qualifier in June led to his dismissal.
\n“I recognise and I know how much love and passion they put into doing \u200btheir jobs well,” Spalletti said.
\n“From my point of view, there’s sadness for what happened. In a moment like this, it’s important to reflect \u200bproperly \u2014 at a time when everyone is offering every kind of advice \u2014 to think with a cool head and plan in the right and sensible \u200cway.”
\nSpalletti believes \u2060that Italy can still produce players of the calibre that defined its past success.
\n“I’m convinced that among our mothers there are still ones like the mothers of (Roberto) Baggio, (Francesco) Totti or (Alessandro) Del Piero,” he said.
\n“We need to know how to make use of what these mothers give us, the talents they put at our disposal. And if we’re not capable of doing that, then it needs to be imposed \u200bon us.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Italy’s latest World Cup failure has triggered a national inquest, with Saturday’s Serie A press conferences inevitably dominated by questions about where it all went wrong \u200band what needs to be done. Italy missed a third straight World Cup after a playoff loss to Bosnia on Tuesday, \u200cprompting both manager Gennaro Gattuso and federation chief […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}