The night of settling accounts. Apparently, few people in the national team’s retreat slept a wink. During the course of last night there was apparently a long face-to-face meeting between the players and the same Luciano Spalletti. According to a background story reported by Republic“the team wanted more certainties. The coach wanted more conviction on their part. The players would have preferred to adopt a script more familiar to them – all or almost all of them come from teams that mainly use a three-man defense, or rather a five-man defense – and perhaps choose a more prudent attitude”.
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And so this morning Spalletti announced that he wanted to stay in the saddle until 2026 World Cup. Likewise, Gravina announced that he will remain in command of the Federation until 2025. In short, no one is paying for what happened last night. Nobody. Everyone in their places. Also Buffon who didn’t even show his face, he was the head of the Italian delegation. In fact, we are faced with a coach who only today took responsibility for the defeat while yesterday he tried to blame it on the championship and the temperatures in Germany. Perhaps the post-match was even more humiliating than the match itself. A nightmare that seems never-ending, a comedy with masks that are now indigestible.
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