Italy Sports Minister Andrea Abodi admits he was ‘surprised’ by the lack of self-criticism after the Azzurri elimination from EURO 2024.
Italy Sports Minister Abodi blames players and FIGC President Gabriele Gravina after an EURO 2024 elimination in the Round of 16 at the hands of Switzerland.
“I was in Berlin and witnessed not the bitterness of a defeat because sports teach how to lose but the bitterness of a disaster. A moral surrender,” he told RTL, as quoted by Gazzetta.
“There was no reaction. There were no flashes from those who must emerge at difficult moments.”
Players “were unable to show the moral strength that the Azzurri shirt must inspire,” continued the Sports Minister.
“I was surprised by the search for responsibility elsewhere. When you lose, the first thing that must emerge is self-criticism. It’s too easy to look at others’ responsibilities or errors. Once again, sports teach how to take direct responsibility.”
FIGC President Giovanni Malagò also blamed Italy players, revealing that Gravina felt ‘betrayed.’
Yes Mr Abodi, they clearly lack self criticism which in turn means they aren’t even aware of what they did wrong, and like Spaletti, look for an issue outside themselves and they might be correct, Spaletti sort of set them up to fail, but you can fail and TRY, what you can’t do is surrender before you lose, what happened to fino alla fine ?
They simply disrespected, did not honour the Azzuri shirt.
If mr minister is concerned about azzurri then he should first make 50% Italian mandatory in every serie a and serie b squads. And 5 italians must in first XI.
That would be a start @Rab
their is no slution here put a percentage of italian players in seria make shure they play the you and exp once this flows everything will get better
That’s typical of this Generation Z