ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “Football is a sport and, in a time of military and economic crisis like this, it should not be loaded with excessive meanings. On the other hand it is undeniable that it is not only a sport. Particularly in Italy, where football is made popular culture, community ritual, international prestige”. Thus the Minister for Sport and Youth, Andrea Abodi, the day after the defeat of the Blues in Bosnia and the failure to qualify for the World Cup 2026. “I’m sorry to think that there is an entire generation of children and young people who have not yet experienced the emotion of seeing the National Team play in a World Cup. I thank the team and his coach for the commitment they have shown last night, but it is evident to all that Italian football has to be refounded and that this process should start from a renewal of the summits of Figc”, says Abodi.
“The Government has demonstrated concretely, in these years, the commitment to the whole Italian sports movement. Our athletes have given us enormous satisfaction in so many disciplines, and I think it is objectively incorrect to try to deny their responsibilities on the third consecutive non-qualification to the World Cup, accusing the institutions of a presumed default and diminishing the importance and professional level of other sports. We will continue, as we have done so far, to do what competes with institutions but it serves responsibility, humility and respect on the part of all. Italy must return to being Italy, even in world football”, concludes Abodi.
“Commissariamento Figc? Speaking with Buonfiglio I renewed the invitation to evaluate all the compatible technical forms because there could be all the assumptions,” added Abodi at the margin of the Premio Città Italiana dei Giovani 2026.
GRAVINA IN SEDE FIGC, SI ATTENDE LA DATA DEL CONSIGLIO FEDERALE
The president of Figc, Gabriele Gravina, arrived at the headquarters of the Federcalcio in the aftermath of the blue elimination against Bosnia in the final of the qualifying playoffs to the World Cup 2026. “How am I? Well, well”, the words of number one of Figc before his entrance into the palace of Via Allegri. On today’s day, the date of the Federal Council should be decided, which Gravina has asked to “convoke for the next week”, as confirmed after the match of Zenica culminated with the defeat of the blues to the rigours.
LA RUSSA “IN CUOR NOSTRO LO SAPEVAMO, MA A TUTTO C’E’ UN LIMITE”
“We don’t go to the World Cup. We have tifato, we have hoped, we have inveited against a couple of questionable arbitral decisions, we have even been amazed that they incredibly sent the youngest to pull the first rigour (it decided Gattuso or perhaps a presumed Bonucci?). But to rethink well, in our heart we feared it or better we knew it. Saying now how we think it – and not from today – would be useless more than naive. But there is a limit to everything.” He writes on his social media the president of the Senate Ignazio LaRussia, commenting on the defeat of the National of Gattuso in Bosnia and the consequent failure to qualify for the next World Cup.
IL MOVIMENTO 5 STELLE “SERVE UN REPULISTI COMPLETO”
“Three consecutive exclusions from the Worlds are the ultimate proof of a movement that has lost direction, credibility and pride. Okay, listen to Abodi, but this isn’t about invoking heads that jump out of anger at the moment.” So the M5S exponents in Culture Committee in a note. “This is something simpler and at the same time more rare: responsibility. Those who led this failure, who built it piece after piece, should have the clarity and respect towards Italian football to step aside without having to be pushed. Not only Gravina, but everyone. Let us remember that he was elected in February last year with almost 100% of the votes. We need a complete pickup. The problem is structural. A system bent to the interests of clubs, very careful to ensure record commissions (the highest in Europe!) to the prosecutors and less to grow the talents”, the statement continues.
“When will the club’s obligations come to invest on young people? Why do you allow them to prevent national internships while Supercoppa played it in Saudi Arabia and even planned the madness of playing Milan – Como in Australia? Are we sure that the problem is only Gravina and not even who manages the Football League? We continue to pursue emergencies without ever helping the foundations. In the meantime, a whole generation grows that the National at the World Championship has never lived it. Continuing is no longer acceptable. It is only anger against what remains of a story that deserves much more destiny,” the note ends.
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