“The biggest disaster in the history of the national team”

The terrible performance of our national team at Euro 2024 has remained a feat in the minds of Italian fans. The boys trained by Luciano Spalletti they have never expressed a game worthy of the past history of the Azzurri. And they were eliminated by a Switzerland that proved to be better from all points of view. A sporting psychodrama that reflects all the limits of a football movement that has remained stuck in the glorious glories of 2006. And that since that World Cup won it has not been able to renew itselfmuch less propose talented players on the level of Francesco Totti and Alessandro Del Piero. After all, the European Championship won against England was just the most classic of bounces of a dead cat.

Among the many fans disappointed by Italy’s performance in these European Championships there is also Flavio Briatore. The former Renault number one did not mince his words in expressing a very harsh judgment on the team coached by Luciano Spalletti. “Italy’s elimination from the European Championships was a shock, the biggest disaster in the history of the national team – he declared to Radio Rai Gr Parlamento -. There was great confusion, it seemed like the players were playing their first match after many months, they played with their heads down, they didn’t understand the position. I didn’t even understand the choice to let Fagioli play. Maybe – he then added – there was arrogance on Spalletti’s part“.

According to Briatore, the main suspect for the failure of the Azzurri is the coach himself. “Spalletti did not create a groupwe had a bunch of scared players, even players like Chiesa and Barella seemed to have no personality – added Briatore -. Chiellini wasn’t Pelè, but he didn’t give up and encouraged his teammates. Instead now it seemed like they were playing a training match. You can lose, but what’s not right is the way we lost: it seemed that when the referee blew the final whistle our players were happyrise up”.

The former Queens Park Rangers owner then launched a suggestion for the post Spalletti. “For me Allegri would be the best as a coach: he would no longer have the pressure every day and he has a huge amount of experience”, he said, also confessing to having made a long chat with the former Juventus coach: “I spoke to him when the match with Switzerland wasn’t over yet: he told me that we have to play like Italy has historically playedwithout trying to imitate the game of other national teams, we are not Spain”.