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▶ Subscribe to join the discussion ◀ / @gianlucafraula ▶ Instagram ◀ / gianluca.fraula 🎤 PODCAST SPOTIFY : https://open.spotify.com/show/23kGqlS... ITUNES : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... GOOGLE PODCAST: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR... With the help of Giovanni Guido / giovanni-guido-165581b1 ⚫ The disaster of Gian Piero Ventura's Italian national team ⚫ November 13, 2017. It is on a cold night in mid-autumn that the failure of the Italian national football team is celebrated, within one of the temples of Italian sport. Out of the World Cup after exactly sixty years. An event that no fan thought could happen, especially since the 1998 World Cup was played with a 32-team format. Impossible to stay out of it. Or almost. To remove any doubt and to give the Azzurri an evening that was “historic” in its own way and a deserved qualification for Sweden, a man who, until a little over a year earlier, no one would have thought of leading the most important and coveted bench of all took care of it. The one where, according to popular imagination, sixty million Italians want to sit. His name is Giampiero Ventura. Sixty-eight years old, an honest career between A and B, a few promotions and glimpses of good play between Bari and Turin, he is the outsider appointed by Carlo Tavecchio to lead the national team immediately after the end of the 2016 European Championships. And that evening, while the Scandinavians in yellow jerseys celebrate in disbelief, he is walking towards the locker room wrapped up in his jacket. Alone. It is the first word that comes to mind when looking at him in those moments. San Siro is packed, but he seems to be on another planet. He is alone and leaves his boys alone, desperate on their knees on the pitch in Milan, forcing captain Buffon to show up for the ritual post-match interview. Those minutes, those moments after the match, say a lot about Ventura the coach. A coach capable of collecting a long series of errors, technical and otherwise, in just under two months and of making possible what no one, not even a few hours after the last fatal match, imagined. “We will go to Russia” was the mantra of Club Italia, repeated by the Federal President and players. They will stay at home. The former Granata is indicated as the main culprit, it is obvious, but perhaps not everything is attributable to the coach. #italy #national #football #seriea #azzurri #footballers #italians