This evening, at 20.45 at the "Meazza" stadium in Milan, in front of no fewer than 70.000 spectators, Italy will be able to play, without any chance of failure, access to the final phase of the soccer World Cup in Russia in 2018.
After the incredibly complicated life of last Friday's play-off this evening, the only useful result, even to say it, is the win with at least two scorers.
In the Stockholm match, the blue players offered another mediocre performance, denoting a worrying lack of play and ideas against an opponent who was far from irresistible.
Here, the hopes for this evening, seen above all the embarrassing moment in which our national team lies, could only be solved in the plethora of a Sweden which, however, in theory should not have been a concern even in the upcoming race.
A lack of qualification, especially after a play with a mediocre team like Sweden, would be an unprecedented failure, which we do not even want to talk about. Certainly the situation created has to reflect on the tops of the Federation that replacing a winning coach like Antonio Conte chose for his succession Giampiero Ventura, far from being ambitious for a national that on paper would have to remain among the great football world-wide and that for this reason it would need a winning guide.
Giampiero Ventura, however, are doing things, and we continue to think that things have to do well this evening, failed, there are few doubts about this. The National CT has a number of unacceptable responsibilities to be listed in a simple article. The impression is that he has even lost the respect and consideration of the group of blue football players and regardless of the outcome at the end of the match tonight must be relieved of his post or alternatively resign his resignation. We only hope that he does not pass on the story as the worst CT of the Italian national football, the one who 60 years away succeeded in failing to qualify for the World Cup.
This evening, as we have repeatedly repeated, counts the result. It does not matter anymore, it does not count on the form, it does not count the interpreters, it does not count any arbitrary wrongs or the little sportiness of the opponent, it does not even count the victory, if it does not coincide with the passage of the turn to these damn play-offs. It only counts to go to Russia, that counts and to try Ventura, very likely, in any case, his last blue bench will appear to 3-5-2 and the chosen interpreters should be the following: Buffon; Chiellini, Bonucci, Barzagli; Darmian, Parolo, Jorginho, Florenzi, Candreva; Real Estate, Gabbiadini.
Ternana Sandro Pochesci, who has been in the net for the first time since the day he was replaced in Sweden, has unequivocally attacked the Italian football system, the players, the team, the federal politics,
“In addition to losing to a team of refugees, we also got beaten. But that we have all become 'pariolini'? Italian football is over. This is what happens to bring all these foreigners to Italy: there is no longer an Italian who leads. If we go out of the World Cup we all lose: we have to wake up ”.
“Springs are made by foreigners. They went to take the Italians in Serie B and Serie C, not the natives. Sweden is worth a Lega Pro team and we lost out of fear. We even got beaten up and now we risk going home ”.
"If we had played a team from our Serie C against Sweden, we would have won, because Sweden is worth a Lega Pro team." “Once upon a time Italy led and won. Now they beat us and we cry. Here is the difference of Italian football. This has happened to bring all foreigners to Italy, there is no longer an Italian who leads ”.
For the coach, “Italian football is over, we are also leaving this world championship. Out of fear, we went to Sweden and got scared. And you can't play with fear.
If I see my team doing it, I'll leave and put in another braver one, because it may be that I've transmitted fear to the players. We lost to whom? We are going out of the world and we all lose, we insiders, you journalists. Italy loses ".
Heavy statements but all in all not far from the reality of the facts. Pochesci had the opportunity to say what most Italians would say if they had a microphone and a camera to resume them. The show set up around this interview, as unfortunately they have seen a few, forced the Roman technician, who is likely to be referring to a dismissal if not a disqualification with the accusation of sportsmanship, to revise his allegations, too strong for be that of a member.
In the aftermath of the statements on the Italian national team that came to the attention of the national news, the coach of Ternana Sandro Pochesci, a 54-year-old Roman technician who started from the ranks, explains the reasons for his words. “I apologize if I have offended anyone - he told reporters at the end of the match that his team drew with Novara - I apologize to the Federation, to President Tavecchio and also to Mr. Ventura who I respect very much. Mine was an outburst from a national team fan. Except that today I am also the coach of a Serie B team and it was my mistake not to consider it ”. “I was born in 1963 - he added - and Italy has always participated in the World Cup. I will cheer on Monday hoping he wins. It was not my intention to attack the choices of Mr. Ventura who is a teacher for me. We are also studying him at the course in Coverciano and I will soon meet him ".
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