First Time In 60 Years, Italy Fail To Qualify For Football World Cup

In a campaign that ended in tears after the final whistle, the Italian national team failed to qualify for the football World Cup for the first time since the 1958 edition, almost sixty years prior.

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“I'm not sorry for myself but all of Italian football. We failed at something which also means something on a social level. There's regret at finishing like that, not because time passes,” said a tearful captain Gianluigi Buffon after the exit. The Juventus man, with 175 caps to his name has announced his retirement along with Antonio Barzagli and Daniele De Rossi.

The Italian squad did look light on paper, bereft of the바카라 웹사이트fantastistas바카라 웹사이트that have been known to spark the game into action. Much of the criticism however, has been leveled against coach Gian Piero Ventura, who took over after Antonio Conte left to take charge of바카라 웹사이트Chelsea바카라 웹사이트following Euro 2016. The Italian fans are reportedly crying out for Conte라이브 바카라 return following the fiasco, at a time when the English press has been mooting this as his last year at Cobham.

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Ventura바카라 웹사이트losing the plot was also seen in a video that has been doing the rounds on social media. When midfielder De Rossi was asked to warm up with the Italians already trailing in the tie, he gestured in the direction of바카라 웹사이트Napoli바카라 웹사이트forward Lorenzo Insigne to be brought on instead.

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In September, Carlo Tavecchio, the President of the Italian FA was quoted saying that not qualifying for the World Cup would be an ‘apocalypse’. Last night, his coach ended up apologizing to a San Siro stadium that looked as if it was witnessing a funeral.

The last time the바카라 웹사이트azzurri바카라 웹사이트won the biggest prize in 2006, they were battling a cancer within as the바카라 웹사이트caliciopoli바카라 웹사이트scandal threatened to wreck domestic football in the country. On this occasion however, the problems have been of their own making.

Champions in 1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006, half a decade may pass before the world sees an Italian team on the biggest stage again.