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It has always been rumored in world football that Italy is weak and England is strong, in fact, it is praising Italy for being low-key, but its strength should not be underestimated. Today's Italy has become really weak, while England is strong has become a reality. From the performance of the World Series, it can be seen that Italy has missed the World Cup for two consecutive years, since winning the championship in 2006, stopped in the group stage in 2010/2014, and missed the World Cup in 2018/2022.
This article analyzes in depth from three perspectives, why Italian football has become a European Chinese team, pay attention and don't get lost!
Italy's three lines are all civilian, and there are almost no superstars in the formation, which can be called the weakest in history!
Italy is known for its steel-and-clay defense, with Maldini, Cabrini, Baresi, Fachetti, Cannavaro, Chiellini, Bonucci, and Materazzi, and the back line has become the focus of each World Series. Of course, Italy's strikers have always been indispensable, with Baggio, Vieri, Piero, Totti, Inzaghi, Iaquinta. Di Michele, Di Nakele, bad boy Balotelli and Cassano can also attack the city for the Italian team.
The midfield level used to be Pirlo and Gattuso, and now it is the young people represented by Barella, and the gap is obvious!
The Italian team has no center forward after Toni, whether it is Amaury, Gilardino or Immobile, who actually has a low presence in the national team and cannot shoulder the burden of attacking. Although Immobile has won the Serie A Golden Boot many times, he has not had too many amazing performances in the national team, and today's Italian strikers Shaarawy and Chiesa are all existing as wingmen, and the Italian midfielder has scored a lot of goals, is it a bit of putting the cart before the horse?
The Serie A scorer list has been dominated by foreign aid for a long time, and the Serie A league has become a retirement home, and its attractiveness has declined!
Gone are the days when Italy was known as the Little World Cup, and in Maradona, the Dutch Three Musketeers, the German Troika, and the Serie A Seven Sisters, these familiar memories are hard to recreate. Serie A is no longer the first choice for big-name stars, Inter Milan and Milan have become retirement homes, Juventus can still be competitive, and Roma and Lazio can only be visa-free veterans and loan youngsters barely maintained!
Can you imagine? In the top 10 scorers in Serie A this season, only Sassuolo striker Berardti is Italian, and all the other 9 are foreign players, Argentina, the Netherlands, and France have strikers everywhere, so there is a reason why Italy does not have good strikers. So what went wrong? is there no strength or is the youth training not enough?
The Italian team is declining in a straight line, and the reason behind it is that in addition to economic investment, there is a problem with the youth training system!
Italy's victory in the 2006 World Cup was just a flashback, and since then, both the World Series and Serie A have been declining as a whole, and Serie A teams will no longer have a Ballon d'Or winner. The Italian Football Association is to blame, in addition to saying that there is a problem with the football youth training, even the Italian meritorious coach Mancini did not stay in office, indicating that there is an internal problem, Mancini led the team to win the 2020 European Cup, but unfortunately missed the 2022 World Cup, among which Jorginho's two penalty kicks were not scored is the culprit, I didn't expect to go to the Saudi Arabian team to coach!
Fortunately, now the Italian Football Federation has changed its mistakes, and Mancini has once again become the coach of Italy's U20/U21, hoping to cultivate excellent young players and provide talents for the national team!
It's hard to revive Italian football, and it's difficult to qualify for Euro 2024 in the Group of Death, and it's not surprising if the 2026 World Cup is absent again.
There is not much time left for the Italian team, and now when they meet the real Chinese team, they dare not say how many goals they can win!
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