Two or three things must be said about Italy 's failure to qualify for the World Cup in Qatar. Of course, which is unbelievable. Defeated at home by modest Macedonia. A disaster. Worse than the 1966 defeat against Korea by Ciccio Kim, with Topolino Fabbri on the bench and great champions on the field such as Rivera, Mazzola, Facchetti. Now still out. If all goes well, twelve years will be the time of absence between the last World Cup and the next. I repeat: if all goes well. Hard to digest. Nine months ago the triumph at Wembley, today the crash at Barbera. A resounding KO. Cruel. Having said that, let's make some reflections.
Italy eliminated from the World Cup, the crisis began in 2010
1) If we think about it, net of the blue faith, our crisis began in 2010. Please don't blame the coach Mancini. Our club teams have not won anything at European level for 12 years. After Mourinho's Inter Champions League, darkness fell. Wembley was the exception that confirmed the trend. Point. And if we download everything (and only) on the technicians – yesterday Ventura, today Il Mancio – we will not go anywhere.
The problem of the Italian youth sectors: they are full of foreigners
2) This crisis – technical, of values, of vision – has a very specific root. We continue to buy foreigners for our clubs and the youth sectors are also full of young people from abroad: are we sure, like Arrigo Sacchi, that this is the right way and not the problem?
National eliminated from the World Cup, the problem of cultural backwardness
3) But there is a more serious problem of all. And this trouble is called "cultural backwardness". There are no new ideas, we continue to think as fifty years ago. The coach is sent away, a coach is sacked, and it is thought that everything will be resolved. It is not so. The other nations are evolving and we are standing still. The culprits are not the players or the technicians. Those responsible are elsewhere, they are "institutional" as Arrigo claims. Corporations are in debt and continue to make cicadas prisoners of shark agents; stadiums are old and ignore families. We live in a championship that comes out. Less than 38% of the players are Italian. Only Empoli, Cagliari and Sampdoria have less than 50% of foreigners in the squad. Foreigners at the start of the championship were 341 out of 545, equal to 62.7% of the total. They come from all over, including New Zealand, Panama, Eritrea, Iraq, North Korea, Mauritania. Armenia. Do we want to start here?
Source: Blitz Quotidiano