TPO - After the defeat against Switzerland and having to return home early, the whole of Italy was seething. The harshest words were used to describe coach Luciano Spalletti and his team.
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The Italian national team has shown a poor performance throughout the EURO 2024 journey, completely unworthy of a defending champion. Despite the justifications about coach Luciano Spalletti having too little time in charge of the team before entering the tournament, as well as the quality of personnel is not good enough, the whole country is still shocked by the event of the Azzurri leaving early, after 90 minutes of weakness against Switzerland.
"Shameful," the Corriere dello Sport headlined, with comments from director Ivan Zazzaroni, "This is the worst Italian team of my life. Terrible, disorganized, fragile, unable to defend or attack, powerless to react to a Switzerland that is not a France team with Mbappe. Simply put, the Azzurri cannot play football. The culprit here is Spalletti, who got carried away by emotions to the point of wasting most of the talent he had."
La Gazzetta dello Sport called the defeat at EURO 2024 “another dark chapter for Italian football” and called for “a fresh start”. According to Tuttosport, more than just a defeat, Spalletti and his team bowing out of Germany was a “national defeat”.
Corriere della Sera and Repubblica went further, claiming that the Azzurri had been “torn to pieces, defeated, humiliated” by Switzerland, and that “a weak Italian team did not even create the illusion that they existed”. Libero , in particular, was so harsh that, after calling the Azzurri “a bunch of useless players who should only be sent to dig the ground”, they specifically called out “Spalletti as a disgrace, Di Lorenzo as a symbol of disaster”.
In his commentary on Sky Sports, former coach Fabio Capello summed up Italy's problem: "The players lack quality, and the Azzurri failed to hide it by lacking physical strength and not being able to control the ball. We didn't have the skills to get out of pressure quickly, and tactically, we tried everything without getting anywhere. It seems Spalletti overestimates the players he has. Like me, I have some ideas but the quality and ability of the players is only that."
At a press conference in Iserlohn on Sunday afternoon, Italian Football Federation President Gabriele Gravina confirmed that Spalletti will continue to lead the Azzurri until the end of his contract (until the summer of 2026). With what has just happened, the Italian media is afraid that their team will miss the next World Cup, like in 2018 and 2022.
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