📸 Italy, historic humiliation! 📰 Front pages 🫣 Abroad: disaster
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Italy lost on penalties in Bosnia and failed to book a place at the World Cup in the United States. What had seemed impossible has become reality.
With USA, Canada and Mexico 2026, the count of consecutive World Cups spent on the couch rises to three after Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022. Something unimaginable on the eve of the first playoff, the one against Sweden. Since then, players and head coaches have changed, but in the last two cases not the leadership of the FIGC, which - inevitably - bears the greatest blame.Â
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Debacle, disaster, psychodrama: call it whatever you want, but what we are witnessing is rewriting the pages of Italian sport, and in the worst possible way. And, staying on the subject of newspapers, today’s front pages can only underline the failure of the senior national team.
🇮🇹 The three sports papers
A clear fil rouge runs through Italy’s three sports newspapers, and in two cases - Tuttosport and Il Corriere dello Sport - they lead with the same image: Pio Esposito on the ground, his hands covering his face.
"Everyone go home" is the headline used twice, while Tuttosport opts for "Out with everyone". No further comment is needed.
📰 The others
Even in non-sports newspapers, the front pages do not overlook the Azzurri’s failure. From "World Cup disaster" to an enigmatic "Now everyone go home", the overall message is clear.
🌎 They’re talking about us abroad too
As was only to be expected, Italy’s failure to qualify has also caused a stir abroad, where three newspapers in particular led with a focus on the Azzurri.
The French paper L'Équipe devotes its entire front page to Donnarumma, with the headline "Italy down again."
Le Figaro also chooses an Azzurri player for its cover, but this time it is Moise Kean.Â
Finally, Spain’s Marca runs with the headline "Third World Cup failure."
So yes, abroad too people are talking a lot about the embarrassment of Gattuso’s national team. We are now trapped in a nightmare, a tunnel in which the light is not even on the horizon.
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.