Italy failed to imitate Guardiola

Losing to North Macedonia in the 2022 World Cup play-off semi-finals, the Italian team missed the train to Qatar. This is the second time in a row that the celestial army cannot attend the biggest festival of world football.

After the failure of Roberto Mancini’s teachers and students, the Italian media and experts gave many dissecting analyzes. In it, it is worth noting the view of Fabio Capello. The veteran Italian coach believes that the Azzurri failed because they imitated the playing style of Spain and Guardiola.

“Italian football has imitated Guardiola’s style for the past 15 years. However, we lack a lot of the qualities to play that kind of football. You can see that North Macedonia is superior to Italy in terms of flexibility, strength. strong and determined.

Everything is very clear. What we need to learn is the football of the Germans, not the Spaniards, who are technically superior,” said Fabio Capello on SkySport.

“Victor Osimhen, Romelu Lukaku and Tammy Abraham are normal strikers in other leagues. But in Italy they are very scary. This raises many questions.

Sometimes I’m surprised when I read some stats, like ‘this player has made 45 passes…’. Ok, but how many breakout passes are there? How many of them are useful passes? We cannot learn the Spanish style of play,” added the former Italian coach.

Coach Roberto Mancini still has a contract with the Italian team until 2026. The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has confirmed that it will not fire this leader despite the defeat in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers. However, according to Italian media, Mancio may resign because the pressure is too great.

In that context, former center-back Fabio Cannavaro has become the brightest replacement candidate. In addition, FIGC also aims to appoint Carlo Ancelotti.