via TuttoMercatoWeb<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI had prepared myself not to answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was equally reluctant to add his voice to the wave of public commentary that has flooded Italian football since the Bosnia defeat.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think too many people are talking: ex-players, journalists, butchers, delicatessen owners. I am focused on keeping Genoa up, and adding more words to this soup of chatter doesn\u2019t feel particularly important.\u201d<\/p>\n
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CREMONA, ITALY \u2013 FEBRUARY 15: Coach Daniele De Rossi of Genoa CFC reacts during the Serie A match between US Cremonese and Genoa CFC at Stadio Giovanni Zini on February 15, 2026 in Cremona, Italy. (Photo by Marco M. Mantovani\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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De Rossi: \u2018Italy failure not a matter of a coach\u2019s bravery\u2019<\/p>\n
His one concession to emotion was genuine and heartfelt.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I am left with is the sadness of seeing so many of my friends destroyed, and so many players I grew up alongside as teammates. That sadness stays with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a reminder that behind the political noise and institutional drama, the human cost of Italy\u2019s failure is felt most acutely by those closest to the players involved.<\/p>\n
On the broader question of whether Italian clubs lack the courage to give young players meaningful opportunities, De Rossi pushed back against oversimplification.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe could generalise and trivialise the concept if we spoke only about courage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery player has their own path.\u201d<\/p>\n
He pointed to his own record at Genoa, promoting Fini and Venturino while protecting Ekhator from offers and fighting to keep Pisilli at Roma, who has since earned a senior international call-up, as evidence that the issue is more nuanced than a simple lack of bravery from coaches.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe real courage comes in June,\u201d he added, \u201cwhen you start from 0-0 and fate tells you whether it paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniele De Rossi deflected questions about a potential Italy coaching role with characteristic dry humour on Friday, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2912,2911,772,2265,1013,5,2047,2913],"class_list":{"0":"post-3763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-cremona","9":"tag-de-rossi","10":"tag-genoa","11":"tag-genoa-cfc","12":"tag-italian-football","13":"tag-italy","14":"tag-pisilli","15":"tag-us-cremonese"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763","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=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}