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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 …

Italy’s 12-year FIFA World Cup wait: Can Gennaro Gattuso’s men end the exile? | Football News

Italy’s 12-year FIFA World Cup wait: Can Gennaro Gattuso’s men end the exile? | Football News

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Luigi Garlando, the Italian writer, penned an open letter to Gennaro Gattuso on Wednesday, adopting the voice of a 16-year-old fan. “I can’t become an adult,” he wrote in Gazzetta dello Sport, “get my driving license, and go to vote without having seen the national team at the World Cup at least once.” Garlando distilled the quiet anguish of an entire cohort, caught between trauma, desperation and longing. Above Garlando’s words sat a striking photograph: Marcello Lippi, Italy’s World Cup-winning coach, gripping his midfield general by the shoulder, eyes blazing, shouting, “Let’s go!” – a frozen echo of 2006, when glory felt permanent and the future unimaginable without it. “Gattuso has a strong squad and will do everything to ensure they finally return to the World Cup after such a long absence,” Lippi was quoted as saying. When the World Cup begins in just over two months, it will mark 12 years since Italy last appeared on football’s grandest stage – a tournament they have won four times, more than any nation bar Brazil (five) …

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 …

Sorrentino’s ode to Naples, ‘Parthenope,’ gets mixed reviews in Italy over San Gennaro sex scene | Hollywood

Sorrentino’s ode to Naples, ‘Parthenope,’ gets mixed reviews in Italy over San Gennaro sex scene | Hollywood

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ROME — When director Paolo Sorrentino’s hit series “The Young Pope” debuted in 2016, it took the Vatican a year to grudgingly bless his imagined and occasionally blasphemous portrayal of the pope. Not so for Sorrentino’s latest film “Parthenope,” which has gotten an early thumbs down from Italy’s Catholic Church. Sorrentino’s ode to Naples, ‘Parthenope,’ gets mixed reviews in Italy over San Gennaro sex scene That has only seemed to pique interest in the film, driving it to the top of the box office here for Italian films since its release in theaters last month. Set in Sorrentino’s native Naples, the film is a lush meditation on beauty, love and death, drawn from the Greek myth of the siren Parthenope, who throws herself into the sea after she fails to entice Odysseus with her song. Parthenope is closely affiliated with Naples, such that the city is sometimes called “Partenope” and its people “Partenopei” in Italian. The film is by no means about the church, but toward the end of the film, there is a single …