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What Gennaro Gattuso doesn’t understand: A World Cup cannot be just about strongest teams and richest pedigree | Football News

What Gennaro Gattuso doesn’t understand: A World Cup cannot be just about strongest teams and richest pedigree | Football News

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Maybe, Italy’s coach Gennaro Gattuso knew his team would not qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup last year itself. In a rant last December that had been fished up again and circulated as a reflection of a flawed system he bemoaned the diversely unequal routes teams from different continents take to reach the World Cup. “If we look at South America, where six out of 10 teams go directly to the World Cup and the seventh heads into a play-off with a team from Oceania,” he pointed out. “That does give you regrets and a certain sadness.” In a roundabout way, he was implying that the tournament is being over-run by underdogs through easy paths while statistically-better teams are sitting out. There were factual inaccuracies. Like the seventh-placed team in CONMEBOL does not necessarily play a team from Oceania. In the end, the Latin America country lost to Iraq, from the Asian confederation. He lamented the extra berths to African countries. “In 1990 and 1994, there were two African teams. In my day, the …

Gennaro Gattuso resigns as Italy manager after World Cup debacle | Football News

Gennaro Gattuso resigns as Italy manager after World Cup debacle | Football News

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3 min readApr 4, 2026 12:05 AM IST Italy’s failure to qualify for the third straight FIFA World Cup in a row has resulted in rolling of many heads in the footballing ecosystem of the nation. Former Italy international Gennaro Gattuso’s reign as Italy manager ended on Friday, the country’s football federation (FIGC) said, making it third high profile resignation in the last two days. Gattuso’s departure came a day after FIGC President Gabriele Gravina resigned, and national team delegation head Gianluigi Buffon stepped down from his role. Italy lost Tuesday’s playoff final in Bosnia on penalties and the ‌four-times champions have now missed out on three consecutive World Cups. “With a heavy heart, having failed to achieve the goal we had set ourselves, I consider my time in charge of the national team to be over,” Gattuso said in a statement. “The Azzurri shirt is the most precious asset in football, which is why it is right to facilitate future technical assessments with immediate effect. It has been an honour to lead the ⁠national …

Gattuso puts future aside as Italy suffer third straight World Cup qualification failure

Gattuso puts future aside as Italy suffer third straight World Cup qualification failure

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3 min readApr 1, 2026 09:14 AM IST A teary-eyed Italian coach, Gennaro Gattuso, was emotional and apologetic after his side suffered a heartbreaking loss to Bosnia and Herzegovina in a World Cup playoff match in a penalty shootout on Tuesday, missing out on their third consecutive FIFA World Cup. Gattuso refused to talk about his future, saying it was “not important.” “Today the boys didn’t deserve a beating like this,” an emotional Gattuso told RAI. “We were left with 10 players, we had three decent chances, and they barely troubled us. I’m sorry. This is football, and I’m proud of my boys. It hurts because we needed it for us, for all of Italy, and for our movement. A blow that’s difficult to digest,” he said. Italy suffered a stinging exit from the World Cup qualification race after losing to Bosnia in a tense penalty shootout, 4–1, marking their third consecutive failure to reach the global tournament. Four-time World Cup winners Italy took an early lead in Zenica, but after going down to 10 …

Why Gennaro Gattuso wants Italy to play World Cup playoffs at Bergamo, and not San Siro

Why Gennaro Gattuso wants Italy to play World Cup playoffs at Bergamo, and not San Siro

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3 min readMar 24, 2026 10:17 PM IST Italy are set to play at Atalanta’s 25,000-seater stadium in Bergamo, when trying to finally qualify for the FIFA World Cup after two misses in the last two World Cups. Twenty years since they last won a World Cup, things have plunged quite south. Their upcoming World Cup qualifying playoff is against Northern Ireland and coach Gennaro Gattuso picked Atalanta’s New Balance Arena, that has already hosted Gattuso’s first game as Italy’s head coach against Estonia back in September. “I chose the stadium. I want to thank the President and Buffon for letting me decide,” Gattuso said at a press conference reported by Football Italia on Monday. “I believe that when you go to a 60,000-seat stadium like San Siro, there are Inter and Milan fans, and they might start booing after a few wrong passes. Playing in a smaller stadium will likely give us a better atmosphere,” the once-combative defender said. Bergamo had not hooted and whistled the team away like Milan’s raucous critics tended to, …

Gennaro Gattuso about Carlo Ancelotti: ‘Personally, humanly and footballistically, I have a lot of respect for him’ | Football News

Gennaro Gattuso about Carlo Ancelotti: ‘Personally, humanly and footballistically, I have a lot of respect for him’ | Football News

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Carlo Ancelotti coached Gennaro Gattuso at AC Milan that won the Champions League twice. However matters soured between the two men who are Italy and Brazil coaches now, after a terrible misunderstanding that has left them both not speaking. Goal.com recalled the entire sequence of events. ‘The duo had a great relationship until Gattuso took over the reins at Napoli after Ancelotti was fired. While Napoli CEO Aurelio Di Laurentiis was planning to sack Ancelotti, he held initial talks with Gattuso. When Ancelotti heard about the rumours, he contacted his former student, but Gattuso denied any such contact. A few days later, after defeating Genk in the Champions League, Ancelotti was fired and later on Gattuso was hired. The latter did not inform his former boss of his decision to take over. The situation escalated to such an extent that when Ancelotti came back to clear his locker, he avoided eye contact with Gattuso,’ goal.com wrote of the incident from six years ago. However, recently Ancelotti’s daughter Katia said she wanted the duo to meet …