Italy, management disaster: Under 21, Major National Team and Women's between flops and empty benche

The Under 21 came out to the European groups and will not be at the Olympics, the Women's has fenced at the World Cup, the Men's has not even qualified.

Having dismalpted the shock of the resignation of Roberto Mancini, who will no longer be the coach of Italy, it is time for a broader reflection, involving federal management, which at the moment has several issues to manage.

On the grill there is obviously the federal president Gabriele Gravina, who finds himself managing several disastrous situations: from the women's to the Under 21 up to the recent vacant bench of the senior national team, the football federation has a failed movement on its hands, if it were not for the victory of the U19 European Championships and for the U20 world final.

However, let's see what are the most burning dossiers on the table of Gravina, who is at the center of criticism and who has, among other things, denied a rapprochement with the world of politics that would see him as a candidate in the next elections in Abruzzo.

THE MAJOR NATIONAL TEAM

The major national team only two years ago won the European and seemed to be destined for something big.

Things didn't go that way. On balance, the last match of a knockout phase in a World Cup with Italy as the protagonist is the final of the 2006 World Cup. From there came two round eliminations (in 2010 with Slovakia, Paraguay and New Zealand; in 2014 with England,

Uruguay and Costa Rica) and two exclusions (defeats in the 2017 playoffs against Sweden under the leadership of Ventura and in 2022 with North Macedonia with Mancini on the bench).

Italy in recent months has been a tired national team, which did not impress and which had many difficulties.

Now there is a need to change, less than a month before the qualifying races to Euro 2024.

THE WOMEN'S NATIONAL TEAM

That of the Women's National Team is perhaps the thorniest dossier.

The disaster of the European-Worlds couple led to the expulsion of CT Bertolini, also strongly opposed by the players, with whom there was a very heated social exchange that represents a unique in the history of the Italian national team.

Apparently, the football federation is finding it very difficult to find a replacement and would have already received some no: in the end he could land on the bench of the women's Carmine Gautieri, but his last experience was with Sangiuliano City, in Serie C. Experience concluded with exoneration and relegation to D of the Lombards. Not a very first-end name in short.