{"id":3213,"date":"2026-04-03T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/3213\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:54:10","slug":"grosso-ive-asked-myself-one-question-after-italy-world-cup-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/3213\/","title":{"rendered":"Grosso: \u2018I\u2019ve asked myself one question\u2019 after Italy World Cup flop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sassuolo coach Fabio Grosso, a 2006 Italy World Cup winner, is \u2018happy\u2019 for his player Tarik Muharemovic, but, obviously, sad for the Azzurri: \u2018We need the right people with clear ideas. It\u2019s a long road\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

Italy World Cup winner Grosso, who scored the decisive penalty kick in the 2006 Final against France, spoke about the recent Azzurri defeat in the World Cup play-off Final.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI felt the same as other Italians: we all wanted to be at the World Cup, which we\u2019ve been missing for a long time, but unfortunately, we didn\u2019t make it,\u201d Grosso said on the eve of a Serie A match against Cagliari, via TMW.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe question I\u2019ve asked myself is: what would have happened if Pio or Kean had scored [the second goal]? It might sound like a simple question, but behind it are many things to say and explain.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, I have a different role, and I\u2019m so focused on what I\u2019m doing, but we must be able to analyse what happens beyond incidents; otherwise, it will be about finding the guilty one every time.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the other hand, we must all contribute to a movement that we must try to revive. We need the right people with clear ideas. It\u2019s a long road, but they need to know which road they want to take to restart.\u201d<\/p>\n

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BERLIN \u2013 JULY 09: Gennaro Gattuso (L) and Fabio Grosso (R) of Italy celebrate with the world cup trophy during the FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 Final match between Italy and France at the Olympic Stadium on July 9, 2006 in Berlin, Germany.<\/p>\n

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(Photo by Ben Radford\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Sassuolo star Muharemovic was part of the Bosnia and Herzegovina team that beat Italy on penalties on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cTarik is back, but I haven\u2019t seen him yet,\u201d Grosso said.<\/p>\n

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ZENICA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA \u2013 MARCH 31: Tarik Muharemovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina competes for the ball with Marco Palestra of Italy during the FIFA World Cup 2026 European Qualifiers KO play-offs match between Bosnia & Herzegovina and Italy at Stadion Bilino Polje on March 31, 2026 in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Photo by Getty Images\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll do it today, with melancholy, because we are happy for him, but obviously sad for us. I also want to congratulate Idzes, who has been voted as the best player of the year in Indonesia.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FIGC announced on Friday that Gennaro Gattuso had terminated his contract by mutual agreement<\/a> following Tuesday\u2019s defeat in Bosnia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sassuolo coach Fabio Grosso, a 2006 Italy World Cup winner, is \u2018happy\u2019 for his player Tarik Muharemovic, but,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,832,41,143,39,2576,2577,5,116,232,831,420,418,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-3213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-bosnia-and-herzegovina","9":"tag-cagliari","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-gennaro-gattuso","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-grosso","14":"tag-idzes","15":"tag-italy","16":"tag-italy-world-cup","17":"tag-kean","18":"tag-marco-palestra","19":"tag-sassuolo","20":"tag-tarik-muharemovic","21":"tag-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","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=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}