Italian star: Serie A cannot produce great players now, and it is difficult for the national team to achieve results
6686 Sports News on November 13 Before Italy’s World Cup qualifying match against Moldova, Italian legend Gianni Rivera was interviewed and talked about the current crisis in Italian football.
The 1969 Ballon d'Or winner said: "There are currently no championship players in the national team. Without these outstanding talents, it is difficult to achieve major achievements. In Serie A, the few best players are almost all foreigners. You can't imagine the trouble this brings to me.
In the past, most of the best players in each team were Italians, and then they would enter the national team. But now our football no longer cultivates greatness. The responsibility for the players lies with the club. Instead of cultivating young players and raising them to a high level, they have left everything to their agents."
Since 2018, Italy has failed to qualify for the World Cup for two consecutive years, and they are currently only ranked second in Group I in the World Cup European Qualifiers, 3 points behind Norway, the top player. If they maintain their current ranking, Italy will participate in the European play-offs to compete for the last four promotion places.
