Fabio Cannavaro underlined how Italian football needs ‘to find new solutions’ following their recent World Cup absences and disappointing international performances.
The Azzurri failed to qualify for the World Cups in 2018 and 2022, winning a European Championship in the middle, and are now at risk of losing out on a place in Euro 2024. The pressure is on Luciano Spalletti’s side for their final two qualifiers against North Macedonia and Ukraine.
Many problems or solutions have been highlighted by pundits, professionals and onlookers in recent years, ranging from the lack of stadium ownership and financial instability to poor TV rights deals and insufficient advertising.
Speaking on the sidelines of the ‘Tell me how football was’ event at Maschio Angioino via ANSA, Cannavaro first discussed the issues plaguing Italian football and the national team.
“The system hasn’t worked in recent years. We need to find new solutions and understand why we no longer produce many champions, why it’s so difficult to go to a World Cup, why we risk the European Championship, things that were normal for us.
“There are certainly many other sports that young people practice now, they also have fewer children, there are many things to reflect on. But it is not up to me, but to those who govern football to understand what needs to be changed.”
He spoke about the possibility of taking over the Italy national team one day in the future.
“I think that those who do my job seek always to reach the maximum. We need to work, study, update ourselves and then we’ll see what happens in the future.”
Finally, Cannavaro discussed Napoli’s slow start this season and the work of coach Rudi Garcia.
“Napoli certainly didn’t start as we all hoped, but it wasn’t easy to replace a coach like Spalletti. We need to let Garcia work and then in the end we will see the results. Napoli are performing well and not so well, the fans certainly always ask for the best.”
italy refuses to adapt, i laugh at ppl who say italian football is played the same as the 1980’s and 1990’s – both era played faster and more attacking football
Not enough Italian players of any quality coming through the youth systems. If clubs keep on buying/nurturing foreign talent then the Italian national team will continue to suffer. When you look at the likes of AC Milan with one Italian starting and other clubs doing the same then it’s no wonder why the national team struggles. Clubs also need their own stadiums built to modern standards and they need this to provide new revenue streams to compete with other European leagues, especially the EPL who are miles ahead with academies etc.
One of the many reason is that Italian football players once they become famous their head get to big , example last time italy won the European cup with the fewest goal allowed, then at the World Cup they get eliminated on the 1st round.
Reason #2
The mentality of the Italians is that we USE TO HAVE A GREAT DEFENSE AND OUR PLAY MOST OF THE TIME ONLY PLAY TO WIN A 1- 0 HOW EVER WE DO NOT HAVE THE SAME DEFENCE OF THE YEARS PAST .
AND OUR TEAM IS TO UNGER FOR GOALS
let me add fuel to the fire we are never in the uder 17 or raely in the 19 this is not a good sign