ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “You don’t go to the World Championship because your name is Italy, you have to work, you have to have a different design”. Gabriele Gravina crosses the fingers, hopes and believes that the National in 2026 will return to play the World Cup, but he knows that in football decides the field and then everything is still pending. To have a Federation, however, is to create conditions for the lack of qualifications of 2018 and 2022 to become only of the homogeneous journey accidents.
“We started a job that we think could be the solution – says in a live streaming interview released to the Director of the Sport Corriere, Ivan Zazzaroni –. We work on the basic activity, with children from 5 to 13 years entrusted to two former world champions such as Perrotta and Zambrotta, then from 13 to 14 years will be under the care of a very good and very experienced technician like Cesare Prandelli. We are trying to start a new path, to free the idea of a method of work linked to tacticalism compared to the outside, we must begin to free the outside. Today children are made to work on schemes in the field and after a while they get bored and no longer want to play, we are trying to build a network of trainers more than technicians.”.
Speaking of technicians you return to the choice of Gennaro Gattuso as ct. “An intuition that does not go back to June 2025, we had already thought of Rino Gattuso in March 2025 – Gravina reveals. We had heard it in order to involve him in our club Italy, because we think it is a technician who works very well with the young and I would have liked to entrust him with the Weight 21 to aim at Europeans and Olympics. Then there was a contemporary opportunity to take two technicians such as Baldini for the Under and Gattuso for the National Team. Among us at Club Italia there is a continuous comparison and relationship, all to find the best solutions”.
There was also the option of Roberto Mancini’s possible return. “It’s true that I spoke to Roberto, he gave maximum availability even with great generosity. He wanted to go back and make himself available for an important cause for our country, but also for him, he would also do it for our relationship that remained quite good, but we decided to make a completely different choice.”.
So here’s Gattuso instead of a Luciano Spalletti who after his defeat in Norway lost the national leadership. Gravina returns to that pre-Moldova press conference. “I wasn’t there, I was there, but it was a Uefa press conference where the ct and a player go. At the end of that conference we would have announced the resolution, but he at the first question did not manage to retain this explosion of anger, his was a reaction from Italian real that he felt penalized. The evening before we had agreed everything, had expressed the desire to announce this resolution at the press conference, but not in that Uefa where we should only talk about Moldova and not our decision”, explained the number 1 of Federcalcio.
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