{"id":2452,"date":"2026-04-02T03:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/2452\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:37:08","slug":"italys-sports-minister-asks-soccer-chief-to-step-down-after-world-cup-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/2452\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s sports minister asks soccer chief to step down after World Cup disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                      Milan \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s Sport Minister Andrea Abodi said on Wednesday the head of the country&#8217;s soccer federation should step down after the national team failed to qualify for a third consecutive World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Azzurri fell in\u00a0the playoffs again, this time after a penalty shootout against Bosnia and Hercegovina on Tuesday, and will miss this summer&#8217;s World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the federation (FIGC), Gabriele Gravina, said he would not resign, but a board meeting next week will decide whether he will keep his position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milan \u2013 Italy&#8217;s Sport Minister Andrea Abodi said on Wednesday the head of the country&#8217;s soccer federation should&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2048,1792,1637,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-2452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","9":"tag-andrea-abodi","10":"tag-gabriele-gravina","11":"tag-italy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}