The FALL of the Azzurri (Why Italy SUCKED at Euro 2024!)
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- Defending champions Italy faced early elimination from Euro 2024 and to say that they exited with dignity would be putting it kindly. Comfortably beaten 2-0 by Switzerland in the round of 16, the Azzurri failed to even mount a late fight, succumbing to their third winless game of the tournament.
To many, Italy's Euro 2024 campaign was one of their worst performances at a major tournament in a long time-a far cry from the team that triumphed at Euro 2021 amid a remarkable 37-game unbeaten run. Coupled with Italy’s prior failures to qualify for consecutive World Cups, it leaves current manager Luciano Spaletti with difficult problems to solve.
So, what exactly went wrong for the Azzurri this time? Here’s why Italy were shockingly bad at Euro 2024.
#euro2024 #italia #italy
0:00 - Italy's Euro 2024 Failure
0:46 - Spalletti Disasterclass
5:41 - Low Quality of Players
9:29 - Poor Team Selection
11:12 - Lack of Preparation
12:38 - Outro
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Which of those mentioned in the video is Italy’s biggest failure? 🇮🇹👇🏻
A. Spalletti Tactics
B: Lack of Player Quality
C: Poor Team Selection
D: Lack of Preparation
It's hard for me to say. People have to remember he took this job after Mancini abruptly left. He's never coached a national team before and he hasn't had a lot of time with them.
I don't know what he was doing during training sessions, I know by mouth he wanted to press to high and have ball possession. We know he can do it, did it with Napoli. The problem is, he doesn't get to have these players around much to implement what he did at Napoli.
Player selection wise. Cristante, Jorginho, Di Lorenzo, Mancini have got to go. I'm not throwing Retegui and Scamacca in there cause when you're not getting any service whatsoever, you're not gonna get a chance to score as your teammates can't string passes together and turn the ball over constantly.
Spalletti did say he will lower the age of the group. That's a good thing. Fagioli has the ability to take players 1v1 something Jorginho can't do and I believe as he gets his confidence back after being out, Fagioli can be a valuable piece in that midfield.
From what I remember 2 of the younger national teams won their Euros. One of them being U17 beat Portugal 3-0. And another youth national team got to the Euro finals.
Let's see what Spalletti can do. The wrong answer is to get rid of him because what then if the next manager has the same result as Spalletti? Do you throw him out fast too?
Lack of playing opportunities for ITALIAN talent in Seria A. Structural domestic league and lack of youth development!
Lack of player quality is not an excuse. We won the 2021 tournament with a squad of similar level, even slightly inferior (certainly so after Spinazzola's injury). Moreover Italy's players may not be superstars but they are still very good and there are individuals who are to be considered top players, namely Chiesa and Donnarumma; also watch out for Calafiori in the future because we may have a colossus in the making there. Yes, injuries and unavailabilities screwed us over big time, as Tonali and Udogie in particular could have been a saving grace, but the lack of mentality and organization were the real problem and also what made all the difference 3 years ago. This failure is largely on the manager
lack of players is not an excuse. there were 6 players from euro 2021. and overall the global level is at least the same if not better.
spalletti is the problem at 80%.
he tried to adapt the players to his style of play which is impossible in a national team because there is no time for that.
he had to input simple concepts and replicate some of the ones they know from their club.
tonali could have helped in midfield.
also youngsters need to be added way sooner.
look at the camarda etc. they are very good.
spain and others are showing the way
All of the above!
Un disastro!!
Small correction, it wasn't one of the worst Italy performances, it was THE worst Italy performance ever. Never saw such as scared, unorganised, lost Italian football team. Sad sad state.
WC 2010.
@@oppi149they still score some good goals in Wc2010
They finished bottom in a group of Paraguay, Slovakia & New Zealand…2010 was easily the worst. Closely followed by 2014. And that 2017-2019 stretch was the worst EVER!
@@BilliBBoBstraightness He is talking about performances, not ranks or results. Performances refer to what happened on the pitch and is relative to the strength of the opposition too. In 2010 the team tried really hard but could not break down New Zealand. It also had serious injuries to key players Buffon and Pirlo.
Spalletti's team did not even try.
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia they also defended horrendously. Least this team was able to hold the fort for the most part against much stronger competition
Italy have won 2 Euros, not 3. Also, for most of Italy’s football history the majority of the national team players ply their trade in the Italian league. In 2006 every player played in the Serie A. They won the world cup. I don’t think it’s necessary for Italians to go abroad in order to “level up”. On the contrary, it’s Italian coaches and club presidents who need to have the balls (pun intended) to let young Italians play in the Serie A and stop waiting for them to be approaching 30 before they are considered mature enough.
One more thing, on the topic of coaches. This is something that many ex-managers and players have already stated, and that is that today all across the world but especially evident in Italy, so many youth coaches want to follow the Guardiola model. They want to develop “complex” styles of play which the players must adhere to and leave THEIR mark in order to advance THEIR career, rather than teaching the fundamental skills to the youth and letting them develop and express their creative skills.
I mean....back then Serie A was the best league in the world, so the level of competition in Serie A alone was plenty...like, even just talking about Balon D'Or winners...in the 2005/2006 season alone, to my memory, off the top of my head, there were 5 Balon D'or winners playing in the league at the same time, by comparison the Premier lewgue right now seems like a playground, and i am not even going to to talk about all of the insane level of players that never won that but that won plenty of UCL titles, or League titles, Euro titles, WC titles, like Ibrahimovic, Buffon, Pirlo, Maldini, Del Piero, Trezeguet etc etc, plus the fact that even smaller teams played regularly in UCL and Uefa/Europa league cups.
@@micheledurittoYou’re right. It’s almost unbelievable the amount of quality that was in pretty much every Serie A team during the 90s and into 2000s. I don’t think anything has come close or ever will. It was an extraordinary moment in Calcio.
@@micheleduritto Partly because before Bosman (Globalization of Soccer) your teams had to consist of 8 country men. This is the proper way to do it. It demonstrates what a country can produce vs what clubs can buy. You reserve 3 for the very best foreigners. When more Italians are playing in a top flight, they will develop more players. It's simple mathematics.
@@Arturo_Fonseca Nah, Serie A remained the best league in the world even after more than 10 years after the Bosman case, and 10 years after the Bosman case Italy won the WC sooo....
Also, why would that be a problem only for Italy and not for other countries? it is more of the fault of the clubs and youth clubs more than the general rule, on top of a lot of other factors...like a lot a lot of other factors, so it is not simple math at all, we could make a list here, but it would be very long to list all of the reasons as to why the italian national team is struggling.
@@micheleduritto Nah what? Bosman started the globalization of soccer, period. It didn't happen over night. sooooo....what the fck do you think you're proving, that it didn't change overnight so it had no impact. When it was 8 home + 3 foreign, ALL leagues were equal in representation of home/foreign ratio, and that show cased what you could produce + what you could bring in. It wasn't a free for all. "like a lot of other factors" but names nothing. You're a moh ron.
Italy's national team is struggling because of stupid coaches. Ventura played a 4-2-4 vs Spain in Sept 2017 and lost, then he tried Insigne at regista for Verratti in the first game when Sweden fluked a deflected shot on net then packed 10 men in the box. The answer? To keep going up the wings and cross it in. Insigne was played out of position. When he came in, Ventura gave him no instructions on what tactics to change. Parolo asked him and he shrugged his shoulders. Then in the 2nd leg he tried putting DDR in, instead of the best attacker they had again? That's why we were out.
In 2022 Jorginho missed two penalties vs Switzerland in subsequent games. They went to playoffs again. Had he hit one of those, they're in. Macedonia had 30 shots towards goal and 11 or so on net. Post. Crossbar, and Berrardi missed a complete open net. Then their goal was off a handball.
Struggle again.
Italy have almost always dropped points in qualifying, drawing games against lesser teams, and rarely were qualified before the last game. What of it? They were punished two WC"s in a row because of it, and you have a "long list of issues" but can't name one? Let me guess, old stadiums right?
Obviously clubs are not doing their part. How is the FIGC going to force them? There's a lot of fodder in the league in the primavera, and calciopoli didn't help as TV deals dried up and they were forced to develop and sell players to make money. It's still one of the best leagues in the world at developing talent, it's just doing so for EVERYONE else. Helping to make other national teams competitive and the small guy catching up. 6 Swiss players on their national team play in Italy. 9 Albanians. 5 Slovenians, 4 Slovakians. 32 French. 22 Argentinian, 20 Brazilian. Why are they training everyone else's players and then not able to find spaces for their own.
Had Bosman NOT happened and we were still at 8, that means 8 spots for Italians to continue to develop. Those players that we prodiuce for the youth competitions that have been winning a lot in recent years have spaces to continue to develop instead of foreign crap. Then when you don't have coaches that play lineups to fail, like Ventura, Prandelli vs Spain in 2012 final, and Spalletti in this Euro, and rather play a true pragmatic Italian style, with flair, like Lippi, Capello, Zoff, even Conte (Inzaghi and Gasperini in league for example), we'd be fine.
Where's your list?
GO TO SLEEP. You need it.
If he is going to call Di Lorenzo his son and select Cristante again, he needs to be replaced. His team selection was bizarre. I'm beginning to think that he is not suitable to be a CT, more suited to club football.
Absolutely. The first thing I said when Spalletti was appointed Italy's manager was "he isn't suitable" and I stand by it. He's a good coach, but not for a national squad. Di Lorenzo was not only terrible in this tournament but also in the previous one. All of the major problem for Italy, aside from stupid one-time mistakes, came from his side in 2021 as well as 2024; it's mind boggling how he can still be an option for the team selection.
@@PickBit Because he's his son 😆
@@humptydumpty20 F*ck... DNA test... NOW!!
Why didn’t Spaletti use Zappacosta instead? He won the Europa league with Atalanta. I’m fed up with Di Slowrenzo since Euro 2021 😢
@@claudiocaniggia3302 Because he only trust players he coached at club level. That was one of the biggest flaws he has in his selection. The other question is why Cristante is in the squad. Honestly Cristante over Locatelli WTF
Soalletti (and Gravina) should have the dignity to resign. The fact that they didnt underlines the true problem of the italian football debacle: arrogance and an incapacity for true and needed radical changes.
You forgot to mention old dinosaurs.
Don’t forget it’s about the Money.
This Italian team seemed to lack two things: 1. cooperation and 2. heart. The players individually seem good enough on their own, with a few exceptions.
The latter item was very evident in their match against Switzerland. They looked absolutely disinterested.
I agree completely.
The question is, why the lack of heart drop off since the Euros?
I have way more questions than answers.
Why disinterested to that extent?
@@jlove8445
Because I believe that the players were not getting along with Spalletti at all he mismatched their role where they played throughout the tournament.
I bet the players couldn’t wait to get the hell out, after the Switzerland game, the players had a look in their faces like they were relieved that it was over.
@@jlove8445
Honestly? I have no clue. And that’s what’s so upsetting. There wasn’t one clear problem.
I think maybe they just knew they weren’t a very good team and it affected their willingness to push themselves.
Why weren’t they a very good team? Spaletti.
Nope they lacked Totti Cannavaro Nesta Del Piero Viera Maldini Pirlo level players.
@@ahmedzakikhan7639
That goes without saying, but they still are good players, though just not in their role.
In my opinion, Italy's downfall was a mixture of bad coaching and selection, with a touch of bad luck.
Mancini's Italy of 2021 was a well-crafted machine, with a good balance of offense and defense, slightly better in the second. Mancini, trying to bring the best features of his players up, went for a 4-3-3: Donnarumma as a goalie, Bonucci and Chiellini as centre backs, Di Lorenzo on the right and Spinazzola on the left, Jorginho as playmaker, followes by Barella and Locatelli/Pessina in the middle, with Berardi or Chiesa as rifht wing, Immobile as the main striker and Insigne on the left. Every single player of this team played in the same position for both the national team and their clubs: they perfectly knew what they need to do and how to do it.
Spalletti had to face many problem from the beginning. Most of the previous team players were too old (Bonucci), retired (Chiellini), out of shape (Insigne and Immobile) or injured (Berardi). Also, Tonali's absence was a very heavy blow, since he would have been clearly a starter and would have added a lot of balance in the transition phase between attack and defense.
Unlike Mancini, who doesn't have a standard line-up, Spalletti always uses a 4-2-3-1 and that was a problem: most of Italy top defenders (Bastoni, Dimarco, Mancini, Buongiorno, Gatti just to name a few) right now play with a back 3 sistem with their clubs and are not familiar with the tactics of a back 4 formation. Forcing them into his module was a mistake. Also, Italy's best wingers were kinda avarage (I mean, they're not bad by any means, it just happens we had better ones last time), yet he insisted on having them, which leads us to the last problem: both Retegui and Scamacca used to have a partner striker in their clubs (Gudmunson and Lookman, both very skilled in dribbling) and team up in order to score. With a couple of wingers, they were completely uneffective.
Spalletti, imo, should have adopted a 3-5-2 solution: defenders would have fit better, both strikers would have a partner and the wingers could be swapped forna couple of offensive fullbacks, like Dimarco, Spinazzola or Bellanova.
Lastly, we should also consider that Mancini's strongest point was the midfield: most of Italy's goal in the Euro 2021 came directly from a midfielder or were assisted by one, with wingers having a pivotal role in bringing the team forward. Immobile was more a decoy than an effective striker.
Spalletti's Italy lacked immensely in build-up and struggled to reach the strikers (0 goals by Scamacca and Retegui in 4 matches). Jorginho was not the same playmaker and, frankly, I cannot understand why he was called. Pellegrini and Fagioli were awful. Barella did kinda well though, still not enough. In general, they lacked creativity.
Players like Bonaventura, Orsolini, Colpani or Pessina, very goal-oriented, would have solved the problem, but they were left out.
It must be said that Italian footballers right now are not top notch, with a couple of exceptions. Still, I personally think that, with just a couple of corrections, our selection could have done better. Maybe not winning back to back the tournament, but at least putting up a decent fight for the semis. Feels like they didn't even wanna try. And that is very sad.
You have the best analysis I’ve seen anywhere yet. I agree with 90% or more.
Euro 2020 was great and Mancini’s offensive minded 3-2-5 was insane to watch. But that team was never going to play together again as Chiellini and Bonucci were older.
Spalletti could have done 3-5-2 which as you stated would make sense for most players who play that at club level already.
I’m bummed, I hope we qualify for the next WC. We have the players. we need the execution.
And in a bigger picture overall, clubs need to play Italian youth. No more sending all this talent out on loan to Serie B and youth teams. Total BS
Fagioli wasn't horrible at all
And Italy is still better than England.
The biggest issue Calafiori should have been starting at 18 at one of the Serie A clubs instead of being sent to Switzerland. Now he will go to England where defense goes to die. The youth level is loaded with world class talent, but it lies on the big clubs to keep Italian kids on their roster and if they loan them loan them to a serie A team that will finish middle bottom of table.
Spaletti was brutal with his selections and lineups. After the albania game he should have thought more pragmatic but instead they were 11 individuals running around a pitch with no cohesive approach. DiLorenzo being kept out there was the worst coaching, in 94 I watched Sacchi sub off Robby Baggio. If il contino divino can be subbed i think Di Lorenzo could have been subbed lol. No excuses from him now he has time and a big pool of talent to figure out 2026!
Calafiori tore his ACL and nobody knew how he'd return
It's entirely Bologna's fault he's being sold to England, not anybody else's. But yes, players moving to England is not going to make things any better for the Azzurri. Jorginho being a prime example.
This was the worst Italian team I've seen in my lifetime which I began watching regularly in the 1982 World Cup. Even though other Italian teams had some bad failures, most of that failure came from an inability to score even when controlling a game, losses in Penalty Kick shootouts, bad luck, bad groups, etc. I have never seen them be this outclassed. They definitively looked inferior to second tier squads like Switzerland and Croatia. Again, I've seen them lose to countries like this many times but never in a manner in which they looked decidedly inferior the way that they did in this tournament (after the first game). You never got the feeling that they were better than a typical third tier team.
Same here. Worst Italian team as far as performance on the pitch is concerned.
Yep, absolutely hopeless, the first time ever in my life I would think that if they win the game it's unfair to their opponent lol
Nah, this team was very talented, just zero chemistry and heart. Antonio Conte had the worst team at Euro 2016 due to Verratti and Marchisio being injured. And yet, Conte was a couple spot kicks away against Germany to taking an average team to the semis.
we have had worse...the team Lippi put together for the 2010 World Cup was horrendous
@@SimoNemo7 yup...but poor coaching the main thing...very poor coaching which enables poor chemistry and no heart = players did not like Spaletti
Even Joe Biden can dribble past Di Lorenzo
Italy has historically the best(or of the best) defense in the World and this squad had the worst defense in Italian history
BY FAR
Biden probably could to 😂
The honest gist of it is that in Italian clubs they prefer foreigners that are experienced at the club level than betting on their youth. ALSO it's cheaper for them to bring youth players from other countries and building them up to then sell them than to develop actual talent. It is OUTRAGEOUS that italian teams barely have italians in their squads. AND THEY ARE OK WITH IT. Look at Milan, Napoli, Juventus or basically any team like Torino and Atalanta. Not even their "primavera" have Italinas. How do you expect to select Italians for a national team when there are none?. They better start developing and betting on local talent again, or they will be like this for a long time. Sacchi has been very adamant about this for the last decade.
I was just listening to Fàbregas talk with Rio Ferdinand about this very thing. That Spain invests in their own youth. Priming them for a success at the national level.
Our youth sector is pretty good idk what you mean. The last step we have to make is use the talent in our clubs…
Under 17 Italian national team are so talented for instance camarda one of them
So it's still a failure at the highest level and will players like camarda ever see first team for AC Milan or will they just buy a foreign player ready at a cheap price and sell camarda for money @@roccociccone597
only roma is investing in youth abd a bit atalanta and milan
As an Italian, I can confirm.
But we also have to talk about the low quality of Italian "scuole calcio" (places where Italian kids and boys play football and develop) which are unable to form adequate footballers and which are also very costly.
Managers of youth teams from all around Italy prefer deploying more physical players so they can win youth tournaments, but likewise, they sacrify the development of new footballers.
@@dicoquellochevoglio961 Esatto 👍
how do you explain the recent excellent results of younger teams like under 20, 19 and 17 then? U19 has deservedly just won the Euro cup, showing enormous talent and a higher level than any other opponent
@@alexcolo76di questi giocatori nessuno giocherà titolare in serie A,anche nella bassa classifica, un udinese preferisce comprare per due soldi un giocatore africano fisicamente pronto. Nessuno di questi ragazzi italiani andrà all estero per giocare e fare esperienza. Marciranno nelle serie minori
@@ilplopperz ma comunque fino a qui ci sono arrivati, dunque le scuole calcio che c'entrano?
That's not the problem imo
Italy is full of great young talents, but they hardly find place in big clubs when they are still very young, not making much important experience in their first years as pros.
Not because they are not good enough, but because of the mentality that relies heavily on more experienced players
Wouldn't surprise me if they struggle to qualify for next world cup & yet somehow end up winning the world cup
I think Brazil have got a copyright on that sort of stuff. I can see them finishing 6th in COMNEBOL qualifiers and still FIFA will find a way to rank them as top seeds for the draw.
Not sure if we ever will see them at a world cup again
Or Croatia for that matter. Atleast our pedigree is worth something.
@@davorbajlovic3136nah Italy's future is bright: they have Camarda, they won the u19 Euros last year and were runners up last year in the U20 WC and won the Euro u17 a few months ago, they could definitely win something in the next yearsm
@franksette5831 its worth nothing, like life, living on past glory just makes you a laughing stock 🤣
look at clubs like Udinese...11 foreigners....theres your main reason..
Udinese plays with Lorenzo Lucca in the front.. 23 years, 37 games this season, 8 goals and 4 assists.. Probably a hungrier player than these primadonnas lined up in the team
Yeah.. I can't understand why He and Pinamonti don't even get a chances to play for National team instead of these woody Retegui and Scamacca. Scamacca maybe had a good season in atalanta, but he can't play as good for the National team as he plays in Atalanta, and Retegui by number of scored goals is at the same level as lucca and worse than Pinamonti, but he is very unpredictable. He can play a Great match, be very active, can score, but then after that match in many matches in a rów he is totally unseen on the pitch and have even problems with the ball by his Feet.I really hope that Spaletti Will finally give a chance to Lucca and Pinamonti and young talent s like Casadei, Camarda, and other boys, who won euro u17 championship this year. The fsct that they Don't play in Serie A is telling a lot About the situafion in italian football..
Spaletti was the WORST Italian on the team
To be honest, Italy hasn't just sucked at Euro 24. They have also sucked at the last 3 World Cups and everything in between.
Italy didn't suck in 2016 or 2021
Beside a lack of international-level players (we've got some) the real issue was the tactics. Spalletti choose players who played a 352 or 3 center back defense and put them out of role in 433. He was not able to read the characteristics of players, and used them like in fut.
Losing 3-0 to Argentina in La finalissima was foreshadowing
But Argentina's win is italy's win
So its win - win
That's not a real trophy. It's a glorified friendly
@@dominicj7977😂
No, because that was a terrific Argentina team. Nothing to do with Croatia or Switzerland of 2024.
Great analysis. I’ve been an Italy fan all my life and it was sorely disappointing to watch this Euro. I noticed the problems right at the outset when they played Albania. Even though they won, it was not a convincing win and knew that when they would go against Spain, it would not be the same. I can’t help but think that Italian soccer is entering a dark age. Seeing the trends with upcoming talent, the declining status of Seria A as a league, and attitudes of players themselves I think it will be a long while before Italian soccer turns it around. I hope I’m wrong, but I’m not optimistic for the near future. I’m even doubtful they will make the next World Cup! 😢
Please continue making these bangers 🙏
Thank you buddy, always 😎
To not bring Verratti, Locatelli & Pessina was criminal! 😮 As to why anyone would bring the absolutely useless Scamacca God only knows!!
As for Di Lorenzo the less said the better!!
Insinge?
Build the WC team around a spine of Donnarumma, bastoni, calafiori, fagioli, tonali, barrella/locatelli, chiesa, that prolific youth team striker who’s name I’ve forgot
Camarda
Listen. Spalletti was told to sabotage the team, simple. You cannot notice that every team would consistently and almost exclusively press Di Lorenzo and that he was the problem on the Spain and Croatia goal, and then keep him in for Switzerland when their coach said "If they play with 4 in the back, we will attack them hard!" Everyone saw it. At one point, when Di Lorenzo almost broke his own ankle I thought that maybe even God was telling Spalletti to remove him. Not only this, but you punish your hero Zaccagni for saving you against Croatia and put in a Roma bench warmer that hasn't played once? Who does this? Who changes key elements of a team that performed better to one that is unknown? I'll tell you who, a coach that was told to ensure Italy was eliminated. This was for England's benefit.
I didn't think that DiLorenzo played very well at all and was almost a liability in defense. What happened to Leonardo Spinazzola? He was incredibly dynamic in the midfield at the 2021 Euros, until he unfortunately ruptured his Achilles tendon. Maybe he just hasn't been the same, which is truly unfortunate for the Azzurri.
I'm an as Roma supporter. Leo recovered in a long time after the injury. Then he helped Roma to reach the Europa League final, but this year he wasn't so decisive, Now he has been transfered to Napoli were Antonio Conte Is the new coach. Maybe a rebirth for Spinazzola.
Donnaruma is the only Toplayer. The others are average, maybe less. The problem is that Italy doesn't have 20-goal-strikers.
Chiesa was not average at all.
Barella is a top one.
Spalletti can’t not stay on, and I don’t think he will.
Spalletti is a mediocre coach that had a miracle with Napoli before that he hasn’t won nothing ever he is not capable for an international coach and I hope coming November he gets out along with Gravina no reason for these two to stay on.
He signed til 2026, we're missing another world cup with that doofus🎉
@@ilsignorpierpaolo5164
I know, but regardless of his contract, they’ll just pay him the money and break the contract.
My father told me yesterday in the Italian news on TV the FDC have already mentioned the name, Fabio Cannavaro for a possible takeover of the national team.
The man won the scudetto at Napoli. NAPOLI! He always had competitive teams with Inter as well. His coaching isn’t the problem. His selections though I can see an argument but he’s a good coach
You were spot on now Im Praying we qualify for the world cup give these young Italians playing time
The main reason we suck so bad is because Spalletti and the FIGC didn't pick players from lower categories , like Serie B, who are more concentrated, with "eyes on the prize", and generally fresher and with more energy at summer because they have a shorter championship (Serie B ends on the first days of May), and instead they rely on these "primadonnas" in Serie A, most of whom are "one foot in the grave", since they are already too old, except for Donnarumma who is one of the best goalkeepers we have (and still can do great things for years to come).
Other than that, it's true that our Serie A is one of the longest competitions (we start around mid-August), but even so, if the players are tired after so many competitions (such as Champions League, Europa League, Coppa Italia) that interrupts Serie A and tires them, it's no wonder the teams won't ggive you their best players.
This is the dumbest take I've ever heard.
@@nikonanne 100% agree
I m Italian , and I hope they fix the team for well next time
Amazing video, amazing analysis.
Glad you enjoyed it!
yo for real , i thought i was watching a channel with hundreds of thousand of views. Very well crafted video!
@@dispera3252thanks bro!
As an italian, let's be honest: we suck.
As a football fan, let's ben even more honest: this whole Euro24 sucks.
Bad coaching. Bad team selection. When i saw the line up vs Switzerland i knew they wouldnt be able to even attack somehow. This is exactly what Allegri does with Juventus. Every single match its the new formation and there is always 2 players out of position. There is also a fact that they dont have Chiellini and Bonnuci as leaders
I am a supporter of Greece, but Italy is my 2nd favorite team, as I grew up watching the great Italian players of the 80s and 90s. Baggio, Donadoni, Cabrini, Maldini, Cannavaro, Delpiero, Baresi, Conti, Vialli, etc ..
This was the worst, least talented Italian team I have ever seen.
They have a good squad but out dated tactics and easy to read , just look at Spain with no more tiki-taka style and crushing posession , they stay back when it's needed and score on counter atack
Spain use to have playmakers on wings and false 9 just to control the game and with the modern aproach they have a more electric style of play with Williams and Yamal and most likely will win the Euro
That’s Italy style, stay back and get you on the counter they invented the counter attack. It’s the coach, my friend he had these players running like chickens with their heads, cut off and confused.
@@FAMA-18 Yes, that is indeed the style that always worked best for Italy against Spain. But Mancini tried possession, and failed. Spalletti went even harder, and failed even harder. A lot of Italy's issues in recent years have come from the unsuccessful attempts at adopting tiki taka. Conte on the other hand had the most typically Italian tactics in 2016 and he did brilliantly.
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia
This is why I always say I would love to see Conte back on the Helm.
Because Italy should not copy no one else, and should play as Italy and with Conte he could give Italy modern tactics with the old style of play and go further.
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia same thoughts as mine. When Spaletti was appointed for Italy I already thought he was another version of the stubborn Mancini, and now he proved to be even worse than Mancini. I still remember how Conte’s Italy won against Spain. I cant understand why Mancini or Spaletti dont copy Conte method whenever they face Spain
Personally I think Spalletti was burned out from coaching Napoli, Montella did pretty well with Turkey maybe FIDGC should have thought outside the box. To me not having Sandro Tonali was a huge loss for this team. Just a matter of time until Allegri takes over.
I think the absence of Verratti isn’t discussed enough. He was Italy’s best player at the last Euro. He controlled almost every game, except against Spain. And in all of those games that tournament, Italy would noticeably lose control of the game when Verratti was substituted off.
Italy was also trash in the last euros, but people are not ready for that conversation.
No italiani lo sappiamo benissimo. Abbiamo avuto una fortuna clamorosa ed un chiesa overperformante
Hahhah stupidest comment ever they rolled through group stages and beat Spain in semi . You country pretty trash
Beat Austria, Belgium and Spain on the way to winning it at Wembley clueless
@@sohazy3307 wow, color me fucking unimpressed
@@davorbajlovic3136 sorry Italy knocked you out in the group stage 🤣
Spalletti calls were questionable. He didn't consider a player like Orsolini of Bologna, he scores 11 goals as a midfielder this season.
Orsolini is not a midfielder, by the way.
The Youth squads have been very successful, thus i have hope that there will be players coming up through their system. The fact that the SerieA is just not as competitive as the other european leagues is troubling though, but as a fan i/we can not despair, we need to support our players. If we look at the other countries ultras and fan following, we have a lot of work to do, which honestly is the only thing we can actually contribute.
"The players are not good enough" is a non-starter of an argument. Austria, Switzerland, Turkey, Georgia or Romania haven't got better players than Italy yet they at least tried to play in a coherent manner.
When your players are not that good technically you lead them with instructions that are simple to execute. Prandelli, Conte and Mancini also worked with a squad that had much less talent than those of the 1980s-1990s-2000s but they made it work. Conte's Italy beat Spain with De Sciglio at LWB and Giaccherini and Parolo in midfield! Spalletti instead wanted to show that his ideologies and dogmas were the right way.
Ah, and to make matters worse: he said even before the tournament that he was relying on Inter's players more than the rest AND he delivered on that promise. Frattesi and Darmian kept starting matches even though they were dismal; Darmian had been kicked off the team for many years because of bad performances, Spalletti brought him back. He sidelined all of Juve's players and insisted on relying on players from his past teams (Roma, Inter, Napoli). Even Allegri would have done a better job with this squad.
If there's one thing that has been similar in ALL italy's competitions run (even the shittiest ones, like 2010 WC or 2014 WC) is the heart and the passion mixed with toughness our italian players has played with. This is the first time in my life, after also rewatching games of oldest WC or EC, I've seen a bunch of guys just givin up. The majority of the issues come from Spalletti's bad recruiting and lack of putting players in their natural positions; but the cause fo this disaster is also associated to players clearly not wanting the win neither battling for their nation - not all of them, but some people like Scamacca casually walking around the field and couple of days later via IG story on Ibiza doing party and laughing like nothing happened. Serie A managers NEED to develop italian players within their clubs and not relying on foreign players, and players NEED to calm down their ego and start thinking that their 5-6-7 mln € salary is neither granted nor free from duties. Meanwhile, Spalletti has to think about what the actual fucking scheme he wanna run, because he's been horrible to see on the sideline with that attitude and then hearing him on press conference saying a lot of fancy words to hide his total failure in all of aspect of coaching - recruiting, positioning, managing ecc ecc.
Ps Italy has 2 not 3 European Titles
(Great video by the way thank you!)
International football requires a different approach from a manager. Being a good club manager doesn't mean anything.
Berardi's performance at the start of the serie A season against Inter where he scored the winner was enough to at least warrant a look in surely he has the experience too
Italy have failed to produce players of the calibre of Totti Pirlo Cannavaro Nesta - its not about team playing poorly - its just that Italian players are not world class enough.
I just don’t understand, we played our best football with Raspadori and retegui against Croatia. Then we went right back to the useless scamacca.
they couldn't get the ball to Scamacca they played timid not to lose it was compete garbage
@@MrRobt1971true but when Scamacca finally got the ball all he fucking did was flick it back to the opposition
@@CityCityJuve for the first time in my life when this team played Spain I wanted Spain to score 10 goals this team played with no heart no nothing they should of all stayed home and in a way they did. this is Spaletti's fault 100% maybe we should of stolen Spaletti's cars dashboard like the Napoli Ultras did
@@MrRobt1971 I agree I’m not saying other players aren’t to blame as well. But I just saw zero passion or drive comming from scamacca. He was just walking almost the entire game not running and when he did get the ball he did fuck all with it. The team underperformed as a whole, but what’s more important than gow good the players played is their attitude while playing. You could see what it meant to Donnaruma, Califiori, and Raspadori to represent the national team and wear the blue jersey. I felt like Scamacca gave the appearance that he could give a fuck less, that it’s a right for him to be playing not a privilege and hate that attitude, it’s toxic.
@@MrRobt1971 exactly lmao, no one except donnarumma had the strive to win, against Albania we waited till they scored an unacceptable goal and then started to play like a euro team, Spain they kept on giving the ball away and even when they scored put little effort to get back, against Croatia they waited until they went down by one and than played properly, and the worst was against Switzerland , once we went down I thought we would at least try to get back but it seemed like the players didn’t realize what was on the line. Spaletti made some horrendous decisions as well, yes we had injuries like udogie and scalvini, but not calling up Locatelli or orsolini was a crime. He decided to call up three terrible Roma players (Mancini, Cristante and Sharaawy) Mancini has a reputation for playing like merda every big match for club and country, cristante is the most mediocre player of all time, and I haven’t heard of el sharaawy since 2016. Just a bad team overall
Perfect explaination. Also, in 2006 and 2021 Italy had a group of players being a solid “locker room” and it was perceived through interviews, videos, etc. Spalletti banned PlayStation, smartphones, jokes so the players were united and confident (most of them spoke like 3/4 times before this tournament). Since there was no experience he should have let them being friends. Spalletti is very good at clubs but not as good as C.T.
Italy SUCKED at EURO 2008, world cup 2010, world cup 2014, world cup 2018, andworld cup 2022 as well. But this time was a waaaay different, worse type of SUCKING.
2010-2024 has been a disaster. The one good moment came in 2020-2021, but besides that 1 year stretch it’s been embarrassing to watch these guys. No competent striker, weak midfield, scared players, and a lack of development. Also, I said before the start of the tournament that Di Lorenzo, Jorginho, and Cristante still being called up should send shivers down ppl’s spines… I was ridiculed for it but I was absolutely right, these guys were horrible
You forgot Vincenzo Grifo.
Italy tecnical skill has been going lower and lower year by year, the 2021 team that won the Euro wasnt that good but definitely better than now, if you lack skill it means you have to play at 110% and give all your heart, these guys didnt do that either and this is the result...
In terms of players, on paper, i don't think this teams was any worse technically than the 2021 one to be honest.
the problem is probably with the italian big clubs themselves…even the midtable clubs has less italian keyplayers in their 1st eleven..bring back the 90s serie bring back stars like Totti Baggio Del Piero back with your youth players
AS AN ITALY FAN, I HAVE SEE A GREAT ITALIAN SIDE WINNING EURO 2020 TO POOR ITALIAN DEFENCE OF THE TITLE AT EURO 2024 AND WHERE ITALY GO FROM HERE IN BUILDING A SIDE THAT CAN COMPETE WITH THE BEST IS ANYONES GUESS. ITALY DO NOT HAVE THE PLAYERS THEY ONCE HAD, BUT EVEN THEN WE UNDER PERFORMED IN TOURNAMENTS . ITALY HAVE TO PLAY TO THERE STRENGTHS WITH THE PLAYERS THEY HAVE, SO I HOPE WE CAN QUALIFY FOR THE NEXT WORLD CUP IN 2026 OR ITS 3 WORLD CUPS IN A ROW WE HAVE MISSED OUT ON AND IF THIS THOUGHT DOES NOT MOTIVATE THE PLAYERS IN PERFORMING, THEN NOTHING WILL IN MY VIEW, ALONG WITH DOING WELL IN THE NATIONS LEAGUE, AS THAT ALSO IS A HARD GROUP FOR ITALY TO COMPETE IN.
Team selection was trash. U17 had 5 guys playing at top level, and the only youngster he played was Califiori.
The truth is that in italy soccer is no longer played on the streets. Kids go to the Gym to train their bodies and the ones who play soccer are the well-off or recommended kids because not everyone can afford to pay for their kids to play in soccer schools. The result is players who don't know how to dribble and jump over an opponent like Domenghini, Conti or Donadoni did from their school days...then if a cocky coach like Spalletti who the only ones who he did not let play out of position were the goalkeeper and the center forward, is arrives the catastrophe is served!
Italy was the only team Spain could not score against
The italian heydays are over. Lets admit it. They have sunk and there is no return anymore
I think that it's a series of factors.
1. Italy indeed is lacking of pure talents now. Surely they have an issue on their child schools.
2. Mancini leave the Team midways the Euro route, that didn't helped.
3. More time is passing by and more i'm convinced that the team didn't liked the new coach attitude. See the face of the Italian players when they was eliminated, they have an expression more like a pain liberation than pain for the elimination.
I think that the team want Spalletti to resign and for that they played s""it.
4. The Italian U18 and U20 are winning and playing finals all over around, but that young players don't play in Serie A or B but rather Serie D...so we can fairly say that Clubs don't give any thrust to youngs, except maybe Atalanta that is the exception.
Well said. Italy are a much stronger team than what they showed the 2021 euro prove that no one thought they could win then, but the manager got the players to play at their best
Napoli won 3 italian Championships: 1986/'87, 1989/'90 and 2022/'23.
It truly was the worst Italian side Ive ever seen in my 30 years of watching football...utterly woeful...and Spaletti was no better
It's cos the Italian FA needs an overhaul. They dont i vest in their youth as they should. Germany constantly has 3 new faces in every tournament. The Italian FA needs to study how the German FA operates
1/ Spalletti did'n't take the right guys for the job!
2/ Spalletti didn't have much experience in the job and took Italy too late! Not so much to prepare!
3/ A lot of players weren't available! Some crucial ones!
4/ Spalletti changes tactics and formations all the time, causing the dynamic and the players's ability to learn from match to match inexistant!
nagelsmann had with germany far less time, only 4-5 friendlies and look what he achieved in a few months. spalletti's good times are in the past. with his backwards philosophy italy will be getting even worse
True that...
I wouldn't change a single word of your analysis.
Soooo, first off, great video. Ill subscribe cus you clearly know ball. I agree with everything said.
The second part i feel important context is needed. Yes, its because we stay in SeriA, but SeriA is the best league for 120 years. Italians benefit staying in SeriA. Even now according to statistics it's the best league, but historically and continuously it remains the most tactical and defensive league that still plays at a slow pragmatic approach. 2010s we saw a changing of generations, but also a revolution in football and how the game is played. Italy had to adapt and adjust. That goes down to the toddlers cus in italy thats when we begin organized play.
I hate to babble, but the perception italians quality dipped is because they play in Italia and EPL is considered top, thus if theres no italians there, they must be mid, which is not the case. They are very very skilled and have high IQ. Italians dont like change. We like to take it easy. We like familiarity. We like chemistry. So yes, we stay home, but we stay in the most tactical league, so dont let media tell you EPL is the best because the money. Calciopoly sunk italy out the market, and the Italian government is so corrupt they havent dished out funds to renovate stadiums (only juve owns their own stadium) since 1990 for the world cup. So this effects TV deals when you see how terrible the venue is. The newer stadiums are 100 years old lol. So its really just SeriA cant compete in the market because we refuse to sell our teams to arabs and americans snd can't get the TVdeals anymore that we did. Italians are very proud people. They like to be pure italian. So the issue with italians is they arent facing the best competition as regularly for 20 years almost and its showing.
I contradict myself here saying it's a perception the talent has dipped about then admit it has lol.
I think it has dipped, but still very good just not quite world class. But you'll see English players labeled world class, but they never win anything for a reason
Bro said Serie A is the best League for 120 years. It was in the 90's. That's it. Just check Champions league Semi-finals of the last 20 years and count Italian Teams in comparison to English or spanish ones.
@@Kwioresma interesting. So not the 80s? N if you check league statistics it's not now? Funny you said just 90s. Everyone knows 80s wss even better. How about 30s when they made 4x more than the English which is why the English played in SeriA when they were actually good
Also the last 20 years has been considered a dark era because of calciopoly. You can argue against the last 20 sure but the stats indicate seriA is the most competitive league last few years, thats the only reason i say that its still top. That's why no one been able to dominate like Juve. When Juve did, that was absolutely when SeriA was at its all time low. Only 2010s SeriA truthfully wasn't the best overall. Also 2020s have been seeing the comeback.
All that being said, it's still a fact seriA was the top flight club of the 20th century and 2000s.
In fairness they brought italys youngest and most unprepared team ever
Sorry but when you have el sharaway on this team that says it all . The players showed zero heart but Spalletti was all over the place with selections . You have Bellanouva who italys fastest player and you put di lorenzo? Embarssing
This should have a thousand views
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Allegri would have done a lot better. He's good at making the most of underwhelming talent by sitting back.
When you start el sharawi Mancini and cristante your begging to lose …. Spalleti was out coached almost every game doesn’t deserve the Italian manager role what a joke
With all the foreign ownership in Italy. The issues with Italian talent will never be fixed.
italian football has long died and forgotten. i dont knw how they won the euro in 2021...italy has no business in winning that euro or any major tornament for that sake. 2006 wc triumph was italy's last dance with those glorious worldclass players they had who was at their twilight of their at the time. del piero
totti
inzaghi
nesta
canavaro
lucatoni
gilladino
zambrotta
gattuso
fabio grosso
with only maldini missing. those guys were legends
also andrea pirlo and buffon
Very simple explanation: lack of Italian players in the Italian championship (i.e. the delocalisation of sport killed the Italian national football team).
But remember: you can't say this because it's not politically correct. It's a secret!
I say it all the time and im italian.
Talented players? Nope. Donnarumma is the only player with genuine talent in this arse of a squad. Di Lorenzo was criminally bad. Fagioli should never have been picked. Spalletti made enormous errors of judgement. Managing the team with utter arrogance. Time for several players to lose the jersey and for an injection of youth.
They got lucky winning the preview Euro Cup. I know you don't win tournaments with just luck, but in this case, they did.
Italy lost every ball after a few seconds in every game. How you want to make play without the ball? No real big names, not one working mechanism between two players, SENZA GRINTA. I think the group was not a group of friends. A few assholes ruined it for everyone, I think.
I don't know why he called Cristante again.(He didn't call him in March) I know Locatelli is not the best Dm in the world but he's best than Cristante. The players who didn't should be called again are Mancini,Cristante and Raspadori.
Puzzling decision, right?
I wouldn't define Euro 2024 as a failure for Italy, rather I would say that Euro 2021 was a miracle on par with Greece 2004 and Portugal 2016
The way Italy settled into that Final after going down a goal was special. I'm Greek and love to reflect on 2004 all day but I will say I don't think Greece wins that Final if portugal scored first.
How the mighty has fallen 😢
New broom sweeps clean
Italy needs world class midfielders and stickers + a coach of Carlo Anchelotte's caliber!!!!
Mancini leaving along with Marco Verrati and they had no elite strikers, and Spetti’s tactics all contributed
Italy can be the one if not the most entertaining teams in world football to watch for a neutral when it comes together for them and they play well as a team. But they just did not turn up at this tournament. They turn up at last tournament though and they were very entertaining in last euro tournament.
All the top Italian sides dont invest in Italian youth just buy and sell the best foreign players 90s to 2024.a slow gradual descent that they never realised !!! now there in big trouble same will happen to the epl and many other top leagues if there not careful
1)bad selection of players 2) italian clubs don't develop enough youths (and the federation is not gonna do something about) like introducing a minimum number of youth italian. 3) wrong attitude by the coach (Mancini used to be able to build a group, but Spalletti with all his limitation regarding no videogames except an hour a day or no phone except before lunch or dinner basically didin't let the guys create cohesion and have fun)
They lacked talent at many key positions. Very few (if any) world class players where it matters. But that was known going into the tournament. What was more alarming was how the team showed a complete lack of leadership. They had no champions in the lineup and no reaction to anything bad that happened. It was clear from the first minute of the first game. Teams of the past wouldn’t have let something like that happen and would have responded much better.
ITALY had won EURO U -17, Losing the EURO was a Tactical move😊
Well with All the bad Data, Italy should push to QUALIFY FOR WC 2026
They need to do what Canada did with hockey when Canada was losing at the world stage.
Fully agree... I will also add Spalletti missed to create a group with entusiasm... instead banning playing Playstation and other stuff he should concentrate to make a nice and happy enviroment. Is way better to work in friendly place than a toxic one.
Both Brazil and Italy are playing bad football...
The importance you give us is proportional to the fear you have to meet us (and the trophies we won) 😎
Too bad we're doing terribly now...
Maybe they didn't do it well this time. I think that Italy is a team which is still under a deep reconstruction. However, I have a huge respect for them in every sport. They are competitive AF. I'm sure that they will make a comeback at some stage. Forza Italia!!! (from a Spanish guy).
Great video. This is everything I’ve been saying. No way we were ever gonna win, but going out at the round of 16 and the way we did is inexcusable. A lot of the blame lies with Spalletti, but as you highlighted there was a whole host of other issues, some deep rooted and systemic, some coming down to favoritism/basically nepotism. This was a sad sad showing at the Euros, especially when we could’ve taken advantage of being on the “weaker” side of the bracket. Last time, we were of the harder side and look how we did. There is just no excuse for the circus act this team displayed. Absolutely pathetic and disgraceful.
not enough totti and cassano
Italy consistently sucked since the 2010 world cup, only Conte's two years and Mancini up until after Euro 2020 have been good runs, unfortunately Mancini run out of good and motivated players. The real problem is that unfortunately Italy has a really really poor youth development system. There is this mentality of "oh but he's too young to be playing in the main team" (which is sadly also true in day to day job hunting life) so young players almost never get to play at the highest level of football and are always relegated to the bench for their first year in a major team. That and ALL major teams keeps buying foreign players for millions and millions instead of actually using their homegrown talent. Pair that with the fact that Spalleti is not a good fit for a national team (he needs a consistent team to build synergies, and you can't do that when you only get a handful of weeks per year) and you have the recipe of the disaster that was Italy's Euro 2024 run. Going back managers had more or less the same problems as Spalletti.
Another problem is the fact that overall (even amongst fans) club performances are more regarded than the national teams nowadays, players just don't care as much anymore, simply football nowadays is more about money than actually loving the game.
For next worldcup, I would play Fagioli, Lucatelli, Tonali, and Zaniolo in the middel field at thesame time. If I play three of them, I will push Zaniolo to forward. And I will put Camarda at #9. Plus Bastoni, Calafiori and Donnarumma. Barella is a liability in keep procession due to his size. Pellegrini is alway fit but he is alway lack of creativity as #10.
As an half Italian and my family being from Italy watching this euros was hard for me and my family we knew our team was good (except Scammaca he is the laziest player i have ever seen) but the managing was for sure poor. Terrible tactics not bringing on players that won you games (Zaccagni) changing/testing formations so many times for sure pissed me aswell as many Italians off. I still don't understand why Ancelotti is NOT manager after showing he is one of the best out there. I think our team/Italy's biggest failure as an Italian fan was for sure the manager and 2nd lack of preparation.
Ancelotti has turned down Italy job twice . He will never take it with these players
all acceptable what its said here but the main point is old fashioned coaches who always pick old players ..young creative players are not welcome... but also not trained..we dont have Totti's ,Del Piero's and Baggio's anymore or if we have we dont let them play. but for sur e we have better players than Jorginho and Cristante... u17 and u19 won the European Championship..actually the u19 already reached the semifinal.. Mancini won because he build a group who fight together... he always watched the youth and already brought Zaniolo when he was 19 and Pafundi with 16 yrs to the Squadra Azzurra
Italy was always like this....8 to 80 and back to 8