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Spaletti is dismissed. Can Italy still enter the World Cup?

12:07am, 10 June 2025【Football】

Sparetti's dismissal was mainly due to Italy's loss to Norway 0:3. Many fans were puzzled and had just played one qualifier. Why couldn't the Italian Football Association sit still and had to fire the head coach?

's reasons are not complicated either. In Italy's group, except for Norway, other teams will be weaker, and Moldova, Estonia and Israel are not those very strong opponents.

Losing to Norway means that the probability of Italy's hope of qualifying directly in the World Cup will be very slim. We can only hope that the opponent will capsize, seize the remaining games to win, and strive to win in another battle with Norway.

Considering that the second place has a large variable entry into the playoffs, it is not necessarily possible to qualify directly. The safest thing is that it is more appropriate to qualify directly at the top. The Football Association will never allow the head coach to lead the team to make all kinds of mistakes.

lost to Norway with a big score, which touched the bottom line of the Football Association. Spalletti was also to blame. He had to be dismissed and became the scapegoat for the team's poor performance.

I have nothing to say about the performance of the Italian team after watching the game. If there is no scene or skill, the game against Norway is at a disadvantage and cannot play any decent characteristics.

Now Italy is really just a second-rate team in Europe, and there is a big gap compared with teams such as Spain.

There are many reasons for this phenomenon. I think one of the problems is that "the league's competitiveness has declined, which has led to players being unable to adapt to high-intensity games."

Usually I watch a lot of Serie A. I often watch the competition between mid- and lower-stream teams. I will watch many weak teams confront each other. The scene is hard to describe and it is painful.

Driving big feet, destroying the ball, and long passes and rushing will appear. The decent pass and cut match cannot match three feet, and the error rate is very high, making people drowsy.

The Serie A team did a pretty good job in defense. They had some characteristics of setting up fences to defend, but they were not good at the offensive end. There were very few teams like Kompany Burnley who were willing to cooperate on the ground.

The technical and tactical content is not high.

Compared with the Serie A in the World Cup, the overall level of Serie A is now very weak and is not as good as that of the Premier League, which is also objective. Even if I have been a fan of Serie A for decades and have been watching the game for many years and have the support of my feelings, I will never say that the Serie A is now higher than the Premier League.

The league level is not good, what difficulties will it bring? There will be serious shortcomings in players' abilities under high-level events.

The Italian team, speaking of which is able to hold on to the scene, is only a few players such as Donnarumma and Tonali. It is hard to say that other players can perform in a big scene.

When you see Verona's 21-year-old central defender Coppola, in front of Haaland, Odega and others, you can only sigh that you are not an opponent of the same level at all.

The opponent's core players are all playing in the Premier League and have accumulated a lot of experience in the competition under high-intensity games. The players of your national team are still playing the main players in the insufficient league, and the gap will only get bigger and bigger.

No wonder many fans now say that when I see the starting list of Italy, I don’t know these players anymore, I can’t even call a single name, and many people are not familiar with it.

Looking back more than 20 years ago, Italy also had stars such as Inzagi, Piero, Vieri, Toti, Pirlo, Gattuso. The more you compare, the more you feel sad and don’t know how to express your feelings.

If Italy cannot enter the World Cup this time, don't be surprised. They are really not the team we knew before.

It is reported that many people have called on Ranieri to take office and continue to put out the fire. The front helped Roma get out of the predicament, so Ranieri could stand up and cheer the Italian team up again.

You will feel even more sad when you hear such news. Ranieri is in his 70s and has long reached the retirement age. The club and national team have let him come out to save his life again and again, but there is not even a suitable young coach.

Even if Ranieri leads Italy into the World Cup, it cannot change the fact that the team is weak. I think we should stop tossing others, let Ranieri rest well and enjoy his old age.

It really doesn't work, Pioli, De Rossi, Mancini and others can do it. There are still other people in Italy who are suitable for coaching in the national team to put out the fire.

But from a fundamental perspective, Italy still has to start from the aspects of league competitiveness, youth training, etc., and try to improve the current situation of lagging behind the Premier League.

Put down the airs of a powerful and powerful team in the past and start from scratch to recover.

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