Mancini: "The hardest moment of my life."

Giorgini: "I'll Think About My Misses Forever"

Italy remained stunned after the loss to northern Macedonia that left them out of the World Cup for the second time in a row.

Coach: "Something amazing happened tonight. We deserved to win the Euros, and now we were unlucky."

Giorgini, who missed two crucial penalties in the qualifiers: "A painful moment"

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25/03/2022

Friday, 25 March 2022, 00:36 Updated: 00:44

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Summary: Italy - Northern Macedonia 1: 0 (Sport 1)

A huge sensation was recorded last night (Thursday) in world football, when the Italian team was already eliminated in the semi-finals of the World Cup playoffs after suffering a 1-0 home loss to Northern Macedonia.

The visitors came as a clear underdog and presented a heroic and effective defensive game, the Italians often missed, and in the 92nd minute it was Traykovsky who stung with a great kick from outside the box that sent the Italians home.

This is only the third time in its history that Italy has not qualified for the World Cup, but the second time in a row.

Italy, it will be recalled, won the last Euro under Roberto Mancini, but this time Mancini is listed for one of the most painful losses in the region's history.

How rare is this loss?

Italy never lost at home in the World Cup qualifiers!

In 59 home games in the World Cup qualifiers, she had 48 wins and 11 draws so far yesterday.

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What's happening to Italian football?

Varati (Photo: Reuters)

Lifelong trauma.

Giorgini (Photo: Reuters)

Italy were relegated after an unlucky campaign, which included crucial penalty kicks in the qualifiers and injury to the prominent star of the national team Federico Keiza - but in fact it is a relegation that symbolizes the deterioration of Italian football: no Italian team has won the Champions League since 2010, no Italian team has won (Pharma won the UEFA Cup in 1999), the last time the national team played in the World Cup was in 2014, and the last time it played in a knockout game in the World Cup was in 2006.

Roberto Mancini said at the end: "I am more than disappointed.

This is the hardest moment of my career.

I have nothing to say.

Something amazing happened tonight.

We deserved to win the Euro, and now we were unlucky.

But this is it, this is the reality.

I'm sad for the players. "Mancini was asked about his future, saying:" We'll see.

I'm too disappointed right now to talk about my future, it seems.

I'm sure these players have a great future ahead of them.

I'm a fan of the players now more than ever. "

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"Obviously we are crushed and finished, it will leave us empty" (Photo: Reuters)

A World Cup without Italy is like life without pasta.

Immobilia (Photo: Reuters)

Giorgini, the Chelsea and national team midfielder, said at the end: "In terms of football we lacked nothing, because we controlled and initiated and got into situations, but we just could not win. It's not anyone's fault, but it's the reality. "Mistakes that are the difference between immigration and loss. This is a painful moment, because we now have to deal with reality, and I am part of what happened here, and it hurts me to think about it."

Giorgini was the one who missed two crucial penalties against Switzerland, leaving Italy only in the playoffs.

"It hurts me to think about it, and in fact, I'll think about them my whole life," he said.

Italy stopper Giorgio Chiellini said: "It's hard to explain. It's a huge disappointment, even today we played well but we could not score. From September to today we made some mistakes and paid for them. I am proud of the team that gave everything, obviously we are crushed and done, it We will leave us empty. We hope this emptiness will push us to start again. I very much hope that Mancini has proven what a great coach he is and he can help us start again. We have a lot of young players and we will try to win the next Euro and advance to the 2026 World Cup. "Tonight except for the goal. We got into a lot of situations, but unfortunately we were not able to win."

Marco Varati: "It's hard to understand what happened because it's a huge disappointment. We controlled the game and had to conquer from the situations we created because we know how things develop in football and if you get to the 90th minute you are in danger. Their goal in extra time was a real nightmare. We were disappointed, we had "A great chance at the World Cup, we came after a long streak of games without a loss and it's hard to accept what happened tonight. We all know we gave it our all, now is the time to ask ourselves a few questions."

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