From the day of Italy’s last match in a football world championship 11 years have passed. It was June 24, 2014, Italy was eliminated in the groups losing 1-0 from the Uruguay game that went down in history for the bite of Suarez to the shoulder of Chiellini. Cesare Prandelli, serious person, resigned a few hours later.
For two days, Claudio Ranieri has been on the graticola, with a fame of “fixed”, because at 73 years old, after having spent a life of benches to take on the lost causes and to put them back on the road, so much so that the fame of thaumaturge is earned, after a couple of days of hope, legal consultations, personal reflections, He decided to keep the word given to Rome of which Senior Advisor is and not to take on the honor and the burden of saving the homeland of the ball by definition and the risk of not turning us out.
This is likely to be likely to prove to be healthy: If in disappearing the clothes from the smoler fairy of Cinderella which transforms the pumpkins into carriages and mice a thoroughbred, Ranieri had indirectly played the role, that I Vexit new of the emperor They assign to the child who shouts in the crowd: “The king is naked”, our football could also have made a good servicesimply with a “no thanks”.
What is healthy is never magical, it always implies a certain effort, of rationality and discipline. If that no served to our football to look in the face of the structural problems and to convince yourself to study a long -term project to solve them, we could remember it as a rear as a necessary evil and even useful.
What is certain is that No coach, however thaumaturge, could solve the problems magically: neither Ranieri, nor Mourinho, nor Gattuso (candidate in the pectore with the added value of a “grit” attachment to the blue). Because they are not problems that are put behind the months that are used to earn or lose the qualification of the next World Cup. We all know that They did not begin with the 3-0 taken from Norway a handful of days ago and not even with Luciano Spalletti, even if at that point it is practicing the coach because it is too late to remedy everything else. Perhaps the times and reasoning of changes at the beginning of the cycle could be better chosen after the European 2024, and not in half a ford.
But now the three -eggs omelette is made and anyone will leave uphill. If then it will be the man with the right hand for the shock capable of grabbing the welcome qualification. As long as I know that if you do not do anything elseif you do not think with your gaze long on the technical, training, players, technicians and managers problems from the chicks of the youth teams, you don’t go far. It is up to questioning the crisis of Italian talents (aren’t there? Difficult. They don’t recognize themselves? Possible. They are lost on the street? Probable.); Finding space for young people in our football (would they play Yamal and Douè in Italy?); make an overall renovation project of football (schools, youth sectors …), identifying critical issues and looking for solutions, Otherwise we will be from each return of qualifying. And paradoxically an unpredictable success like the European in 2021 On the road of this awareness could also have been very beautiful but not healthy: perhaps he helped morality, but probably had the effect of a fig leaf, a pious illusion: He hid un solorted problems under the carpet.
Today we think – but it is all to be written -, to call back Cesare Prandelli to entrust him with the role of technical director and the connection between the major national and youth. It could be a good idea, Because, Prandelli has a history in the only Italian society that manages the nursery at the best of the world (Atalanta) and has been talking unheard of problems on the table for years. It may be that speaking always calmly they have not done too much attention to him. If Ranieri’s no served to silence the background noise for a moment to listen to Prandelli’s analyzes, it may also have been useful for this. Better late than never.
However, an unavoided question remains open to turn to the Federation, to the leadership of national football. From the day when Cesare Prandelli left the leading national guide, 11 years have passedthe problems on the table were the same as now, the players who are just 9 years old today, and they would have had all the time to grow by learning more and better. Why have we lost these 11 years? They would have been enough to re -establish everything and maybe the problems of that time would be solved. And we would not be here to look in a magician coach who, however, even if there was, will deal with the stroke of midnight with the gossils with the plumes that return to the sorcos and with the carriage returns pumpkin. Unless you start thinking differently now and then maybe in ten years everything will be different.
