After the bad defeat against Switzerland, the Italian national team is ready to start again with the youth. Possible call-up for Fabbian
But are we really that poor? This is the question that Corriere della Sera asks itself regarding the Italian national team. After the bad defeat resulting in elimination from the European Championship, there are many questions about Italian football. “From the Olympiastadion to Casa Azzurri a ghost wanders around Europe and it is the “Italian footballer” as a technical and spiritual category, who came out of this European Championship in pieces: the first in the history of the Azzurri with two defeats, in which, just to point out the technical paucity, Italy only had one shot on target per match, an event which has only occurred three other times in a major tournament. In short, the transition is epochal in its own way: can the decline be stopped?“, the newspaper asks.
“The flame of talent in Italy still burns, despite everything, but the teams do not trust the boys, preferring already experienced foreigners. The theory of natural selection could lead one to think that if the players are strong, at 18-20 years old, they should still find space in the clubs. So perhaps the average talent that is produced in our youth sectors, if it always stops on the threshold of professionalism, is not as equipped as we think”.
“But this was also Riccardo Calafiori’s European Championship, whose trajectory seems exemplary. Spalletti’s national team in Germany was the penultimate in terms of experience in the tournament and one of those with the lowest average age. Some men from the European Championship, like the 34-year-old Darmian or the 32-year-old Jorginho seem to be saying goodbye, Mancini is also not at the top of Spalletti’s thoughts for the restart. Di Lorenzo, among the worst in Germany but the coach’s sporting son, should be evaluated: Bellanova is 24 years old and perhaps he could have even played for a few minutes. In the last championship Fabbian of Bologna, Baldanzi of Roma, Prati of Cagliari, all Under 21 like Casadei of Chelsea and Gnonto of Leeds, the youngest Italian scorer with Mancini, stood out two could already be called up in September. Without forgetting Camarda, the next great hope among the center forwards.”
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