by Antonio Ricotta
PALERMO (ITALPRESS) – First Gabriele Gravina, immediately after Gigi Buffon and Gennaro Gattuso? At the moment no news from the blue ct. Zenica’s barrel was terrible. Figc’s number 1 decided to step aside. Too many pressures, including and above all political, an avalanche of requests for resignation that ultimately centered the target. All despite the confidence and esteem reiterated by the members of Figc for a president who had been elected with over 98% of the votes, but who paid the result that the National has not obtained. “The main objective was to bring Italy back to the World Championship. And we did not succeed,” said the head of the blue delegation, Gigi Buffon, who resigned shortly after President Gravina. And Gennaro Gattuso? He’ll take a step back, too. He could do it these hours. He probably has less responsibility than anyone. He arrived to replace Spalletti, exonerated when the World Championship qualification was already uphill. He took them only with Norway, reached the play-off final and lost it to the rigours in Bosnia. It is also true, however, that Zenica suffered too much while going ahead.
In 11 versus 11 the solution was not found to block the bands and to prevent Dzeko’s comrades from putting a myriad cross in the area. Especially after the expulsion of Bastoni, maybe two lines to 4 could limit their opponents and give a little breath to Calafiori and Mancini. That said Gattuso worked well and on this no one has doubts. With him the National has found that desire to belong, that feel the shirt that maybe lost. Even the injured with Ringhio showed up and remained in Coverciano, heard the call of the team, the locker room. Captain Donnarumma said he was proud of his companions, precisely because of the spirit of group that the ct created. That wasn’t enough. “Today, speaking of my future is not important. Today it was important to go to the World Cup, we are sorry,” said Gattuso in the immediate post-partite Zenica. That today is the other yesterday, it has passed 48 hours and Gattuso has no longer seen nor heard. He could postpone his “receiving us and thanks” past Easter, but he could also, for the spirit of service that distinguishes him, accept to lead the blues even in the useless and sad friendly of June, where in all probability we will be sparring-partner to the selections that will do that World Championship that we have not played for 12 years.
He could also wait for the new federal president and then put the warrant back to him. Mandatory conditions, but the decision of Gattuso should be the same that they have taken, for different reasons, Gravina and Buffon. And of course, the toto-noms started. From the most exotic and attractive (Guardiola, Klopp, Mourinho) to more concrete hypotheses. One of the last three iridescent failures is Roberto Mancini, but the Mancio is also linked to the last blue triumph with the European won at Wembley. Then from there months from nightmare between Macedonia and farewell to Ferragosto to say yes to Saudi Arabia. He works and trains in Qatar, in a situation not easy. He was hoping to drive back to the National Team after Spalletti’s exoneration, that’s not how it happened. He feels he has something to be forgiven, he has proven to be able to do well the selector. It is among the candidates in the front row. With him also another great ex: Antonio Conte. Train Naples and hardly De Laurentiis will get him away. From ct, in 2016, he played a large European with one of the most modest nationals of the last 40 years. He left a great memory in Figc and also he always remembers with pleasure his two years blue.
And then there is Massimiliano Allegri. He is relaunching Milan and is deeply tied to the red-black world. It seems to have all the characteristics necessary to make the technical commissioner, you do not lose in exasperated tatticisms and pulls out the maximum from the material you have available, without looking at identity cards and technical cards. There is also the hypothesis Simone Inzaghi, who trains in Saudi Arabia, with the passion of always. It could feel the charm of the tricolor call. Many Italians dream of Carlo Ancelotti, one of the largest in circulation that, in fact, trains Brazil. He will do the World Championship with the green gold, he is very well in the land of the “futebol bailado” and we wonder why he should accept the mission of a National that does not play a World Championship since 2014 and of a Federation that on June 22 will depart from zero. And finally there would be Coverciano solution: a federal technician like once. There is Nunziata, there is Baldini who started with Gattuso and who is doing well with the Under 21. Everyone starts from zero, executives and technicians, indeed it is the Italian football that starts from a clamorous -3, that is from the three consecutive World Championships that the four times champions of the world have clamorously failed.
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